Ungewollte SMS-Anzeige im „emergency call mode“

John Gruber macht auf die bei karlkraft beschriebene „Sicherheitslücke“ der aktuellen iPhone-Firmware aufmerksam. So zeigt das iPhone eingehende SMS im „emergency call mode“ selbst wenn SMS-Alerts ausgestellt sind und das iPhone mit einem Passcode gesichert ist:

„My twelve year old son brought to my attention a security bug he discovered on his iPhone. He has an even more paranoid security mind than I do, because he primarily uses his iPhone to send and receive sweet nothings between himself and his girlfriend, and he is certain that his mother and I are desperate to intercept these messages. […]

For those how care, this is bug 6267416. I don’t have much hope for it being fixed soon, because my security bug 5368148 from July of 2007 is still marked as open, and still unfixed in 10.5.5.“