The hacker called Ashley Towns who created the Ikee worm for the iPhone has been approached by Australian firm of Mogeneration and been offered a job as iPhone application developer for them.
In other words, Ikee is being rewarded for creating the first worm for the iPhone which has lead to other worms being created which are more malicious such as the Dutch one which steals the bank details of users who use the ING Dutch bank.
The Ikee worm itself was not malicious as it only changed the background of your device to the face of Rick Astley but the worm was also a show-and-tell for other hackers to start hacking the iPhone.
So far there have been two more worms after Ikee. The first being iPhone/Privacy.A which redirect users to a phishing site when they do online banking on their devices through the dutch bank ING.
The second called iBotnet.A takes over your device and starts using as a Botnet, much like a hacker would take over your computer for a botnet.
However as I have mentioned in all the worm related posts, the fix for the exploit in jailbroken iPhone is very easy. HERE IS A GUIDE TO DO IT.
What do you guys think? Do you think Ikee should be rewarded for what he did? Is it wrong?
