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January 12, 2008

Pre-teen creates I Phone Malware

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Kids today eh? In my day it was running around fields and playing
football in the park with jumpers for goalposts, but now it seems that
malware is all the rage with the youth of today.

Read the story here:
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One delightful touch about this iPhone hacking story is that the
people who discovered the malware had to contact the child's parents
to get him to stop. I think someone's going to be losing PlayStation
privileges for quite some time.

But on a more serious point, if today's kids can do this then security
chiefs will have careers for a long time to come.

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