iPhone Worm author gets Job as iPhone App developer
The first iPhone worm creator got a job, he revealed using twitter. 21-year-old Australian Ashley Towns is the guy that created the first ever iPhone worm. He revealed via Twitter that he got a job at mogeneration.
However, senior security consultant at Sophos Graham Cluley is disappointed that Towns is “rewarded” for writing an iPhone worm. From the Sophos’ blog:
“Don’t get me wrong – I don’t think virus writers shouldn’t be allowed to rehabilitate and do something worthwhile with their lives. But it jars with me that Towns has shown no regret for what he did, and that now his utterly irresponsible behaviour appears to have been rewarded. Will Towns be offering a token $5 compensation to all those he infected for the inconvenience he caused? I doubt it.”
Personally I did not like his attitude. I think all people with talent should be awarded and others should make them do the right things. Joy comes more with evil things than the right things. Its nothing like “utterly irresponsible behaviour”. Apple the iPhone maker recommends no one to jail break their phones. This worm only infects these jailbroken phones. Then its a common sense to change the default password for everything. This worm infects the iPhones of which the default pass is not changed. And he already made clear that he made this worm as a prank for his friends, also he did not know this will end up like this.
So in my opinion what he did was somewhat undesirable, not definitely “utterly irresponsible behaviour”.
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Credit:Mashable
