The iPhone wakes up to something of a flogging that daylight, after the mainstream press – which up until now had been speaking in hushed, reverent tones about the device – decided abundant was suitable and chose to roll out the “technology could destroy us all!” warnings.  Today it’s a so-far unexploited security gap, by which should you connect to a specially set-up WiFi network and thereupon go on a link on a malicious webpage a buffer-overflow in Mobile Safari could be triggered.  Potentially serious, next, whether you’re in the habit of connecting to any old available wireless network and surfing blindly, but in comparison to, say, the masses of malware that gets emailed around or can be triggered by downloading cracked or pirated software it’s not precisely a massive threat.

Read today’s New York Times and you’d be locking your iPhone in a lead-lined box, however.  A series of “defense experts” are wheeled out to show how easy it is for your precious Apple-phone to be subjugated to a life of crime and exploitation, with the usual threats of “running up huge bills” and “turning it into a portable bugging device” being tossed into the fray should the fear of stolen files and text messages not be abundant for you.

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Original post by Chris Davies