{"id":13668,"date":"2009-12-02T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=13668"},"modified":"2009-12-02T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T22:00:08","slug":"the-iphone-becomes-a-victim-of-its-own-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/the-iphone-becomes-a-victim-of-its-own-popularity\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone becomes a victim of its own popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUOTE:<\/strong> <em>&quot;It is no secret that the Apple iPhone is one of the most owned smart\/entertainment phones in the world. It is also no secret that more than half of the phones out there on the market are jailbroken and of those a large number are both jailbroken and unlocked. This is a figure that drives Apple absolutely bananas. They hate the fact that users have control over what they can and cannot do with their phones.<\/em><i>     <br \/><em>But now we see something new, Apple and its global partners may actually have a friend (although an unintentional one). With the sudden creation of a string of worms for the iPhone software, we have a real answer to the scare tactics that Apple has tried to use. But is this a real threat, or does it once again play on user ignorance to exploit a known hole in a rather insecure operating system?&quot;<\/em><\/i>    <br \/><strong>For more information, please visit &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mailbot.tweaktown.com\/cgi-bin\/dada\/mail.cgi\/r\/TweakTown_News\/h\/20091202072122\/www.tweaktown.com\/articles\/3033\/the_iphone_becomes_a_victim_of_its_own_popularity\/index.html\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/mailbot.tweaktown.com\/cgi-bin\/dada\/mail.cgi\/r\/TweakTown_News\/h\/20091202072122\/www.tweaktown.com\/articles\/3033\/the_iphone_becomes_a_victim_of_its_own_popularity\/index.html\/', 'http:\/\/www.tweaktown.com\/articles\/3033\/the_iphone_becomes_a_victim_of_its_own_popularity\/index.html']);\" >http:\/\/www.tweaktown.com\/articles\/3033\/the_iphone_becomes_a_victim_of_its_own_popularity\/index.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUOTE: &quot;It is no secret that the Apple iPhone is one of the most owned smart\/entertainment phones in the world. It is also no secret that more than half of the phones out there&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2535],"tags":[332,2226,331],"class_list":["post-13668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-news","tag-apple","tag-cell-phone","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}