Ask HN: Is this iPhone hack possible?

joshmlewis.com

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I’m not a programmer, much less a hacker, but I thought it would be interesting to find out from people that are.

The barrier to entry is sufficiently low that you should at least try to become a hacker -- or even a programmer; you have the requisite curiosity and imagination.

There are many benefits to learning how things work and what's more; you can do it!

Thank you! It's on my plans to learn Python this summer.

"Most people jailbreak their iPhones..."

No, they don't.

"With that ... there is a default user name and password that almost no one changes I’m sure."

I'm willing to bet the opposite is true. Almost everyone who has a) jailbroken their iphone, and b) installed OpenSSH on it, has changed the default password right away.

... No one mentioned that this was exactly the problem with iphones jailbroken early on?

I am disappoint.

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/40529.php

No. You have to install sshd on the iPhone before you can SSH into it.

And even then you have to somehow find the IPs, which is pretty hard if they aren't connected via WiFi.

Bonjour makes finding the phones easy in a restaurant with wifi.

Here's a bit on it (read the answer) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6241623/ios-bonjour-over-...

Some of the toolkits have SSHD in them. Most of the old ones did, but I'm pretty sure most modern jailbreaks do not by default.

Some people may have already. And it could be an automatic doing by another cydia install already.

Pretty sure a very low percentage of users jailbreak their iPhones.

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