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We sort of knew this would happen as soon as we heard about that iPhone wallpaper hack in the Netherlands -- a hacker named ikex has created what's apparently the first iPhone worm, and it's currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia. The "ikee" worm, as it's being called, takes advantage of the fact that jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed all have the same default root password of "alpine," and once in the system it changes your wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley and then tries to install itself on other jailbroken iPhones on the network. Sophos says it hasn't confirmed any infections outside of Oz, and to be clear, this worm can't get to stock iPhones or jailbreak owners who haven't installed SSH -- but if you're running a hacked phone we'd say you should change that root password just to be safe right away. Get to it, kids. - Rick

We sort of knew this would happen as soon as we heard about that iPhone wallpaper hack in the Netherlands -- a hacker named ikex has created what's apparently the first iPhone worm, and it's currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia. The "ikee" worm, as it's being called, takes advantage of the fact that jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed all have the same default root... more... - Rick

Did anyone actually believe that Arrington could pull such a device off with retail prices anywhere near what he was pitching? Many companies with more pull than a blogger (a successful blogger, yes) wanted this and couldn't do it. - Rick

Huzzahs are in order! - Rick

The flash version is a ton of fun. I'm going to buy the iPhone version soon. - Rick

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It's the not-to-distant future. They've turned off the Internet. After the riots have settled down and the withdrawal symptoms have faded, how would you cope? We asked you to Photoshop what life would be like in an Internet-addicted society learning to cope without it, and offered $50 to the winner. That winner is below, but first, the runners-up: - Rick

Bought this after @leolaporte mentioned it on Macbreak Weekly. Awesome app for making videos on the iPhone. - Rick

I think that Apple did not make the correct choice in going native Cocoa for everything. If they allowed HTML/js apps to have a live-update like PalmOS, we would see a much more healthy webapp ecosystem around the iPhone and not the proprietary Objective-C apps. - Rick

I've been playing with this today and it's pretty amazing. Lots of different "layars" that you can apply to show different things: bars, nearby tweets, flickr photos, yellow pages... - Rick

I've been playing with this today and it's pretty amazing. Lots of different "layars" that you can apply to show different things: bars, nearby tweets, flickr photos, yellow pages... - Rick

I love Domo! - Rick

Brenda Kenneally documents the effects of illegal drugs in her Brooklyn, New York neighborhood. Money Power Respect and Big Trigg. NSFW [previous comment] - Rick

Saurik (Jay Freeman) is still fighting the good fight against Apple. This time, one can edit their OSes hosts file to make iTunes think it's talking to Apple. The new server serves up signed iPhone updates and is very ingenious. Good stuff in this post. - Rick

One in 8 Million "New York is a city of characters. On the subway and in its streets, from the intensity of Midtown to the intimacy of neighborhood blocks, is a 305-square-mile parade of people with something to say. This is a collection of a few of their passions and problems, relationships and routines, vocations and obsessions. A new story will be added weekly." A photo and audio series from the New York Times . A few of the stories: * Omika Jikaria: The Type-A Teenager * Rivka Karasik: The Religious Runaway * Henrique Prince: The Subway Busker * Marc Trimitiere: The Baby Deliverer - Rick

covert items at fast food chains around the country. Be warned, this mission includes very real dangers such as hardening arteries and skyrocketing cholesterol. But we know you won’t let us down. We’ve compiled a list to get you started - Rick

This 'Expedition Story' is the whole story of explore of the Kowloon Walled City. The Expedition entered to the City just before the torning down had started. And, they were the last and only Expedition; investigated the City with living samlls. - Rick

MacOS Preference Pane Automatic allows you to set up subscriptions for virtually any content linked in RSS feeds: podcasts, videocasts, torrentcasts... Rule of thumb: if it ends in '-cast', you can get it with Automatic. - Rick

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I loved this movie as a kid. Still love it, actually. - Rick

As I read the Apple/AT&T responses to the FCC questions, it clearly read as bullshit just to cover their respective asses. - Rick

Re-donk(?)-ulous - Rick

Unpublished rules and clarifications from Apple's App Review team that can cause your iPhone app to be rejected. - Rick

This is the most exciting thing about iPhone OS 3.1. What phone is used in this first vid? Anyone? Bueller? Anyway, there are many phone capable of this and more are coming and the uses are a full step beyond what we all use our mobiles for these days. - Rick

For the guys at MacBreak Weekly who just can't stay away from iTS "App Store Expense Monitor is a simple menubar item, which displays the amount of money you spent on the Apple App Store." - Rick

Look at these awesome Venture Bros. costumes from ComicCon 09. - Rick

citysounds.fm click a city to listen to its soundtrack - Rick

Yay! Now let's see if the gov't (FCC) or lobbyists (Google's) actually do something useful. - Rick

This game was one of the most frustrating (also, Kid Chameleon) of my childhood...I'd love to play it. Too bad it's coming for Wii. My Wii will be sold in a few days. Too little, too late I guess. - Rick

Congrats to the Firefox team! Death to IE! :) - Rick

We all knew it was coming, but it's really becoming more evident that newspapers are dying fast. - Rick

If this is true, then the battle between the CrunchPad and the rumored Apple tablet-thing could be fun. Hell, it'll be fun if they beat Apple to it. - Rick