Filed under: Bugs/Recalls, iPhone, Jailbreak/pwnage

If you want to have a hot and steamy exchange with your sweetheart via AIM on the iPhone, you might want to think again — if you have an unlocked or jailbroken phone.

CrunchGear reports that Till Schadde with Equinux has discovered an iPhone exploit where AIM messages could be sent to random people without you even knowing it. Schadde discovered this when he was notified that a message he had sent to his iPhone version of AIM got intercepted by someone else. That person proceeded to contact Schaddle, sharing the screenshot shown at right with him. Schadde posted the screenshot and detailed the bug on Twitter after testing it once more from his computer.

The exploit is being blamed on iPhone 3.0’s push notification and seems to be limited to unlocked/jailbroken iPhones at the moment.

[Via CrunchGear]

TUAWiPhone push exploit sends AIM message to unintended recipients originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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