Apple Employee responds to iPhone hacker

As always, when a new high profile tech device becomes available, hackers get an itchin' to hack. Roel over at http://www.virualist.com gives two reasons for a peaked interest by hackers:

#1: The iPhone will become the preferred target for writers of mobile malware.
#2: The iPhone is going to run a slimmed down version of OS X. Although it won’t be running the same architecture it's plausible that both OS X for Workstations and OS X for iPhone may have at least some of the same vulnerabilities.

Hacker battles it out with Apple employee

Halvar Flake says "with all this hoopla around the iPhone, is this beast running an ARM ? I have doubts about a mobile device being based on x86, so does anyone have details about what sort of shellcode needs to be written ? "

Response by Simon Cooper Apple Employee

"Do you really want to know the answer to this question? Do you want
to demonstrate your skill in developing a platform that is resistant
to malware?


If so, then you should apply, get offered and accept the software
security position I currently have open at Apple. This is work in
Core OS for Mac OS X.


I am not a recruiter - I am the hiring manager. Email me if you are interested.


--
Simon Cooper
ORIGINAL POST HERE!

Whoa..slam slam, the battle is on. I have a feeling Apple just might become as big a target for hackers as Microsoft is now.

Speculation abounds

Speculation abounds when no tech specifications have even been released yet. In an e-mail interview, one of the hackers behind the Month of Apple Bugs project, which is disclosing new Apple security vulnerabilities every day for the month of January, said he "would love to mess with" the iPhone. "If it's really going to run OS X, [the iPhone] will bring certain security implications, such as potential misuses of wireless connectivity facilities, [and] deployment of malware in a larger scale," the hacker known as LMH wrote in an e-mail. He declined to provide his real name.

"I can't wait to get one," said Maynor, chief technology officer with Errata Security. "There's already a lot of discussion going on, and it's not coming out for another six months. People are salivating over it."

It's on!!!!!