Keeping the Worms Out of Your Apple.... iPhone!

Recently I have noticed a bunch of articles being written about worms infecting jail broken iPhone. These worms vary in maliciousness from basically Rick Rolling you, to trying to steal your banking information, but they all exploit the same thing. These worms assume that the owner of the jail broken iPhone did not change the SSH password that allows directory level control of the iPhone systems. If you are unaware of what SSH is basically it’s a way to connect to something running Linux, which is what the iPhone OS is based on. Once connected the user can pretty much do whatever they want so long as they have the proper permissions. The problem is that all iPhone have the same password for the ‘root’ user, however only jail broken iPhone give the owner the ability to utilize that SSH. In a world with no jail breaking this would not be an issue since no one could get access to the iPhone through SSH, however in reality we have users that want to both have a jail broken iPhone and the functionality that comes with having the ability to SSH into your device.
The one thing to keep in mind is that when you gain the ability to SSH into the iPhone, you also need to take on the responsibility to protect your device. This means you need to change the friggen SSH password from ‘alpine’ which is what it is for ALL iPhones to something else. You can Google exactly how to do this but suffice to say it is really easy (I googled it for you) and if you can successfully SSH into the phone you can have the password changed in seconds. Now you have an iPhone that is as secure as any Linux computer out there and these worms will not bother you.

RIP: Shaggy, Fred and Daphne

This circulated the tubes a while back but now it comes to you in t-shirt form! Velma and Scooby Doo as real monster hunters. Alas, it seems, Shaggy, Fred and Daphne did not survive the monster apocalypse so it's up to the nerdy (and apparently hot and toned) Velma and her now raged-filled dog to save the world.

I would love to see a one-shot trade paperback that explains how this came to be and what happened next. You could incorporate all kinds of sweet monsters into it if you played your cards right; vampires, zombies, lychans, maybe a few mummies... Heck, you could even get specific and throw in stuff like the Creeper (he killed Shaggy and took his eyes!) and Deadites and even Jason Voorhees! Velma and Scooby could be on a quest to find the Necronomicon in an effort to put an end to all the madness! Maybe I shouldn't have posted that idea... should have sent it to a couple publishers first... damn. Oh well, every one buy this t-shirt.

Parker! Bring me pictures of Spider-Man!

We all know Peter Parker has had a hard time holding down a job. He's not loaded like Batman and his job does not necessitate running into danger like Superman's so your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man has always been kinda screwed every time some one needs his help but he was on the clock. But that does not excuse the wall-crawler from robbing a pizzeria!

That's right Spidey fans, some jackass in Tacoma, WA donned the web-slinger's duds and a 9mm and waltzed into a Papa Murphy's pizzeria for his take of the till. That was last Wednesday but, unfortunately, it gets worse. It turns out that on Nov. 4, two Spider-Men walked into a Bank of America in Texas, decked out in Spidey costumes, hooded sweatshirts and guns and apparently got away clean. Here is, I kid you not, a still shot from the bank security camera.


If he's already got the costume on, why did he think he needed the hood? What was he trying to accomplish there? Was he trying to make people think it was a different Marvel Comics hero? "Oh my officer, I was so scared I can't remember if it was Spider-Man or Thor!"

And actually, the cops investigating the bank robbery Spider-Men think one of them was actually a Spider-Woman... insert your own joke here.

I hate to say it but maybe J. Jonah Jameson was right all along. Maybe Spider-Man is a menace. After all, he did get arrested in LA on the Hollywood walk of fame a couple weeks ago for slugging some guy.

My, my, my... what is this world coming to? Before you know it, people dressed as the Fastastic Four are going to be robbing banks and pizzerias because they saw Spider-man do it and they thought it was cool. Blind criminals dressed as devils will try to join in but they'll have walked into Build a Bear workshops by accident! Terrorists are going to dress up as the X-Men to pull off unspeakable acts of evil! Although I'm sure none of them are going to want to dress as The Phoenix, too revealing for Muslim extremists.