It’s a new facet of Apple's iMessage for iOS 5 leaving iPhone owners vulnerable to losing control of who sees their text messages?

Writer Sam Biddle of the popular tech site Gizmodo has highlighted what he deems a major security and privacy issue in a post titled "The Apple Bug That Let Us Spy On A Total's Stranger's iPhone." The "bug" of the title refers to an apparent hole in iOS 5 that potentially allows strangers, thieves, stalkers and oblivious buyers of stolen iPhones to read every incoming and outgoing message that a certain iPhone owner sends over iMessage, whether they want to or not.

Biddle's article provides a real-life example of how this works: Apparently, a friend of Biddle's took her son's iPhone into an Apple store for a mundane repair. After the employee at Apple's Genius Bar had finished his work on the son's iPhone, he inserted his own SIM card into the iPhone he was repairing to ensure that his repairs had worked. After finding that they had, he removed his SIM card and replaced...

It’s a new facet of Apple's iMessage for iOS 5 leaving iPhone owners vulnerable to losing control of who sees their text messages?

Writer Sam Biddle of the popular tech site Gizmodo has highlighted what he deems a major security and privacy issue in a post titled "The Apple Bug That Let Us Spy On A Total's Stranger's iPhone." The "bug" of the title refers to an apparent hole in iOS 5 that potentially allows strangers, thieves, stalkers and oblivious buyers of stolen iPhones to read every incoming and outgoing message that a certain iPhone owner sends over iMessage, whether they want to or not.

Biddle's article provides a real-life example of how this works: Apparently, a friend of Biddle's took her son's iPhone into an Apple store for a mundane repair. After the employee at Apple's Genius Bar had finished his work on the son's iPhone, he inserted his own SIM card into the iPhone he was repairing to ensure that his repairs had worked. After finding that they had, he removed his SIM card and replaced...