Ziphone creator discovers crippling iPhone bug
If this isn’t the best way to score a job interview, we don’t know what is. Piergiorgio Zambrini, an Italian systems engineer and creator of the widely popular Ziphone application, recently applied for a job as an iPhone security engineer at Apple. Who needs a good interview when you can prove your worth by discovering what is likely one of the most wide-spread security holes in Apple’s product line? Zambrini has discovered what he claims to be a security flaw capable of crashing not only the iPhone, but other Apple devices such as iPods and even computers as well. While he is obviously not releasing sensitive details with regards to the bug, Zambrini claims that the bug involves the audio portion of Apple’s video format and could potentially crash an Apple device whenever a file utilizing the exploit is played. For the time being, Zambrini hasn’t lead anyone to believe that anything overly malicious can be accomplished by exploiting this hole, but an exploit would “immediately send the device into a panic that leads to a lengthy reboot.” Definitely something Apple would rather avoid. Zambrini first contacted Apple about this security issue back in July but he has yet to hear back from them regarding this matter or the position he applied for.
If he dont get the job, he should release what it is to hackers so they can screw apple over. and who said they mac is safe?!
I like all companies but everyone making Apple look like its the Omega in everything it do. Not. Look behind the marketing team and scams every company have and actually read between the lines of everything that caught ur interest and pick from there. Never pick something that everyone have and tell u want to get. Creative mp3 players are better than ipods but dont have that much space, yet.
Judging from the picture, he didn’t get the job…
Fine line here between showing your worth and extorting a company.
Interesting story, I want to see how it plays out.
“immediately send the device into a panic that leads to a lengthy reboot.”
Yeah that’s been happening to my iPods for a couple of years now already.
kinda smarmy, if you ask me. if he is so ‘concerned’ about security (in general) and has discovered a security flaw… then, why did he not just provide the fix, show apple – privately; and, on a clean slate, apply for the job (again privately)? going public with all of this stuff leads one to question his abilities and integrity.
@ Bruce – the article says he contacted Apple about the issue and did not receive a response…then he proceeded to apply for the job and, again, did not receive a response. That was when he made all of this public afterwards so if Apple had responded to him regarding the issue then this probably would not have made its way to BGR.