iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages To Random People

@Dillinger23: Exactly. Thank you all! Thank you! I'm here Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday nights!

@nutbastard: LMAO. Gingers are soulless? There's something I didn't know.

@Hello Mister Walrus: Well this little thread here is just a giant case of communication fails, joke explaining and latent peter panism.

Good stuff.

Dillinger23

@Lupus_Yonderboy: While that does look nice. Since i got my 3GS i decided to JB my old 1st gen iPhone. Other than the game emulators which destroy your battery, i have seen no reason to jailbreak. Sure i could change out the icons, but it seems the phone is slower, uses more battery just sitting there, and alot more things just randomly crash.

I do like that background though.

Dillinger23

@brianesser76:Cue fucking off in 3...2...

Dillinger23

@Justinpaulson: You can handle that in a few ways-there are a lot of home-made icons floating around that you can replace stock icons with-just put it into the theme in the Library, and a lot of people will make icons for different applications if you ask them to. You can also make your own (I made one for the Songbird remote app using Gimp because I couldn't find one that I liked). There's also, at least for the theme that I was promoting above, a little utility that will format existing (Apple-approved) icons to look like the ones in the theme with no editing on your part (for instance, it turns the rounded corners on a normal icon into the pointy/rounded corners that A8stract uses, and flattens out the glossyness). All in all it's not too hard if you want a unified look on your phone-you just have to spend a little time.

Lupus_Yonderboy

@nutbastard: I'm just gonna go cry now...

@nutbastard: Then what the heck does this mean...."Here's a screenshot the random receiver of my msgs sent me back http://twitpic.com/b3bct I used iChat on a Mac #iPhone #push #security #hole"

@TheSonOfKrypton:

yeah that's really insensitive. gingers already have it bad - is it not enough that they have no souls that you have to use that awful slur?

nutbastard

@TheSonOfKrypton:


Well, it’s a LOT more common to have gay friends if you live on either coast of the US. Texas? Not so much.

nutbastard

@Justinpaulson:

well AFAIK this only pertains to messages sent FROM JB’d iPhones, and the only people who will get them is other people with JB’d iPhones – sending a message TO a JB’d iPhone shouldn’t present any risk, but it’s a bug, so there’s really no telling.

nutbastard

@Justinpaulson: Hahaha. Sorry for the ginger reference. Was just making an example. But I'll find you post and promote it! First I gotta put on my night vision-goggles.

@Lupus_Yonderboy:Do you make up cool new icons for every app you download too or do your subsequent pages all look like lame old iPhone icons?

@TheSonOfKrypton:This long thread got completely off topic and my relevant post can't get promoted? :( I miss the old days where I actually felt like I wasn't some second-class commenter. Oh and I'm a ginger and take offense.. That is OUR word dammit! You shouldn't just throw it around like that....it hurts.

@Pope John Peeps II: I think it's meant to be a throwback to starting stopping code, ie. using i and /i, etc. and I can see how it could be used effectively as a way to inform someone of your intentions in posting. I'd use < spoiler and

shiftyeyedgoat

@Curves: I would think it would be for unlocked phones that are on unsupported carriers, but thats funny if all Jailbroken phones have the same bug.

@scriptcypher:
Ewwwwww he is all covered in red.

glamajamma

@TheSonOfKrypton: Yeah, I know. I wasn't really being serious.

Hello Mister Walrus

@Hello Mister Walrus: "Worst thing evar!!!" is usually just sarcastic internet slang for 'bad'. By affirming his sarcasm, I didn't mean to say "YES, THAT WOULD LITERALLY BE THE WORST THING EVER TO BE CALLED IN MY LIFE." But if I were to read "worst thing evar" strictly at face value, I completely understand your reply. No worries.

@BagOBones: I wish your comment would show up as featured instead of just bad jokes about blaming your iphone for sending messages. It actually added useful details.
Also, just to be clear, is it really the case that "anyone with a jailbroken iphone may be getting them" or does this only apply to people who unlock their iphone?

Paul Brenner

@orthorim: PRO TIP: adding something like the "/rant" tag might SEEM to mollify your comments, and make you seem like some sort of good-natured, jolly, fat belly laugh shakin' party animal. But in reality, adding that after you've called people "retards" just makes you look like an insecure douchebag who's unwilling to accept the tone of what he's saying.

It's like saying "no offence". "No offence, but your mother's an ageing whore who's bounced from bed to bed for the past 40 years." See, the "no offence" thing doesn't work. Just like /rant. /rant is for losers.

@Lupus_Yonderboy: Hrm. That's annoying. The new image imbed feature puts my images at the top of the post. Grrr. Wish that we could still use img src.

Lupus_Yonderboy

@ddaq89: There used to be plenty of reasons (especially back in the 1.0 days when that was the only way to get new applications), but most of them have been fixed with 3.0 (copy/paste, soon MMS, etc.). I still jailbreak and probably always will (if my next phone is an iPhone, that is) because of Themes (don't like the stock look of the iPhone icons, I prefer to use something a little flatter & less glossy).

Just updated to 3.0, so tonight/tomorrow/this weekend I'll probably be re-jailbreaking and re-theming it back to what I used to have, A8stract.

Lupus_Yonderboy

@Curves: Well, it's okay to do it. But next time make fun of him homorously, okay? That's the internet way.

THE MORE YOU KNOW.

@orthorim: I'm right there with you. I wouldn't mind so much except that the new system doesn't result in me seeing more useful posts... it just means I see more useless jokes but now only from a smaller group of people.

Paul Brenner

@TheSonOfKrypton: The other guy posed a question of whether being labeled homosexual would be considered the worst thing ever ("evar"), to which you gave an affirmative reply. My reply states belief that there are worse labels to be stuck with, in general.

Hello Mister Walrus

@orthorim: Dude, you're acting like being friends with gay guys is a novel thing. These days, EVERYONE has gay friends, its not a big deal. Ive known a guy since he was hitting on me in high school TaeKwonDo (guess how many times HE'S seen me naked) and we're still friends today.

The point is, whenever someone calls you something you're not, it's *USUALLY* to offend you. That's the whole point.

Regardless, 'twas a silly joke. If you guys don't wanna laugh it off, so be it.

@Hello Mister Walrus: LOL

@Hello Mister Walrus: Why would a sexually loaded message from me to another guy (grown man, mind you) be construed as a rapist or child molester implying comment?

@orthorim: Well lets see if what you say is true, GAYLORDFOCKER.

@bornonbord: That reminds me of a true story: Friend of mine was on vacation, sent email to his buddies bragging about his night with that English girl _in detail_. Only he sent it to his girlfriend back home by mistake.
Pretty much caught red-handed, he explained to her that he'd made it all up to impress his friends. She bought it!

orthorim

@Hello Mister Walrus: CHIMO: PRISON TERM FOR CHILD MOLESTERS.

Slightly confused.

But I think its when some one using a factory default iPhone tries to send a message to a Unlocked, probably not Jailbroken, iPhone. Depending on what version of the unlocker they used will tell witch unlocked phones get the message.

I think. That's the only way this makes sense to me.

Right?

And I doubt it's as serious as it's made out to be.

JosephCole

@TheSonOfKrypton: Really? You must have some issues. If somebody calls me gay, I find it slightly amusing - that is, I find it amusing that the other party thinks gay is something bad.
While I am hetero, I have many gay friends. If I were gay - so what? I'd be into guys instead of girls, I don't really see what the big deal is. Some are into girls, some are into guys, some watch internet porn all day, and some are into S&M sessions - who am I to judge any of it?

orthorim

@michael haendler: So - I hate the new comment system. Can I please see all freakin' posts all the time, like God intended? Thanks!

I don't need a nanny to decide for me which are good and which are bad. I am old enough.

If a comment doesn't interest me, or seems stupid, I have the amazing ability to glance it over and skip past it in a fraction of a second. I know - not everyone is that gifted. Apparently Giz readers are retards and need to be treated as such.

/rant

orthorim

True!! I was receiving strange messages when using Beejive IM with push. I have a jailbreak iPhone 3G with push fix.

@Pope John Peeps II: I only did it so that he would know what the issue was and didnt try and "fix" it. Henceforth, I will concentrate on good deeds only for the deserving and feel no pity for idiots. (When I get these "helpful" moods, I do all kinds of useless and unappreciated things, the lessons from which I never learn.)

@HumungaCowabunga_GitEmSteveDave: i do, twice within an hour

@TheSonOfKrypton: I imagine that being labeled a serial rapist or child molester would be just slightly worse.

Hello Mister Walrus

@bornonbord: Does your iPhone automatically send naked pictures of you as well?

secretmanofagent

@michael haendler: No Scriptcypher is one of those "red" commenters, I believe. Which explains why he has no comments but this ludicrously retarded bit of gristle right here. Only star commenters can see/approve them.

Curves, don't do that anymore. That's NOT a good deed.

By the way, Scriptcypher, I'll assume you're reading this: that sort of comment will never, ever get you commenting privilieges on any of the Gawker media sites. You should re-think your life.

@Ben Zvan: If you're not homosexual, then why, yes, it would be. Just like someone calling me a 'ginger' (I'm black) would be...

@scriptcypher: Because not all opinions are equal, but they are most certainly known to be un-equal even before delivery, so this is a safe procedure.

@scriptcypher: if you click on the "show all comments" at the bottom of the page then you'll see every single posting (including your own)

michael haendler

makes me feel good that Obama doesn't use an iPhone:

Oval Office Pimp: Hey Sec. Gates, I forgot those nuclear launch codes, send them to me again. Kim Jong Il is getting rowdy.

Nuke Launcher 2009: No Problem Mr. President. Your code is "McSame".

Oval Office Pimp: How could I forget?! Thanks. I knew I made you Secretary of Defense for a reason!

The Ilest Kim Jong: Hahahaha! Small ' Bama! Has in me with the front door my in the right bomb. I hope that the situation you examine the matter.

obbie

@TheSonOfKrypton: Gosh... being called a homo would be the worst thing evar!

1. Activating did not create the unique ID needed for normal push to work.
2. the fix was to clone the ID from an activated phone.
3. the result is that everyone that hacktivates their phone gets the same ID and messages randomly go to the wrong people.

Cause? Breaking your damn phone by jailbreaking and then unlocking it.

Stop reporting this as if Apple is down on the man, it is simply the side effect of hacking something in the wrong way.

BagOBones

@scriptcypher: Because someone has to approve them, which I did, as my Good Deed for the Day. Thankfully, now that its off my list, I can go back to normal behavior.

just use a legit copy of AIM Free, It's basically the same with a small banner ad, for push to work properly, it's a fair trade-off, i think...

Andrew Moulton

I didn't mean to send those messages to underage girls - the iPhone did it!

Hello Mister Walrus

I wonder if the messages were sent to a coho or trout AIMbot. Anyone get harassed by those stupid things?

@ddaq89: IrealSMS and SBSettings. The only reason I jailbreak my phone, and makes me upset that Apple can't (won't) do these things on their own.

@brianesser76: If the iPhones are jailbroken, Apple can't be held responsible.

tvcity6455

@brianesser76: You do realize that your comment is as, if not more, annoying than theirs, right?

@Matt:#no #kidding #annoying #ain't #it!####

#Using #Hashtags #On #Every #Word #Defeats #Their #Purpose

Not that I don't mind a bit of iPhone slander to balance its ego out, but the headline really should mention that it's jailbroken iPhones, not all of them. Here I was thinking Apple made some huge goof up and got all excited.

Dangit.

I am confused, its sending the messasges TO jailbroken IPhones or are JBIPhones receiving them? I rarely use AIM, but if there are juicy, gossipy or hot, private messages there, I will certainly open it up to see them.

'Cue Apple Fanboys claiming this is a false story with no proof since nothing apple ever fails in 3... 2...'

Why don't any of my comments post?!?!

One more reason not to screw around with something that is not broken. I have been using my iPhone for a while now and still have not seen a reason to jailbreak my phone.

ddaq89

Wait, so even if I'm sending messages through AIM via iChat on a mac to people that are using unlocked iPhones my message may go out to God-knows-who? That is really messed up...So do I need to keep track of which of my friends are using unlocked iPhones and which are not?

Warning: You may literally be labelled a homo sending a sexually loaded comment from your jailbroken/unlocked iPhone/iPod Touch. Expect angry return messages from guys reading "No ASSHOLE, I will NOT 'stroke' your 'ego' "

Wow. I was actually thinking about installing aim on my iPhone. Glad i waited. At least now the whereabouts to my secret criminal lair are safe.

Meh, I tried that excuse when my girlfriend came rushing up to me asking why I sent her instant messages about "last night" and how "good it was" not to be around "that horrible bitch" that I normally "am stuck with" as if I were in some "sort of jail, and she was the warden, just waiting to rape my brain of all joy in the world".

She didn't buy it.