Aharon Etengoff writng on security, "Rickrolling worm infects jailbroken iPhones" (Nov8,2k9) TG Daily "The Tech Generation" intrigues me with unheard-before terms indigenous to the subculture of what used to be telephony, since become wireless telephony, now become smart-phonery, in process of becoming apps hub tech (on handheld devices, in large part).

A number of iPhones in Australia have reportedly been infected by a worm that replaces the background wallpaper (face of the handheld) with an image of 80's pop icon Rick Astley.

"The worm, which could have [already] spread to other countries although we have no confirmed reports outside Australia, is capable of breaking into jailbroken iPhones if their owners have not changed the default password after installing SSH," explained Sophos security researcher Graham Cluley. "Once in place, the worm appears to attempt to find other iPhones on the mobile phone network that are similarly vulnerable and installs itself again."

Thus, the metaphor "jailbroken" adjectivally refers to an iPhone in a certain technical condidtion where owners have not changed the defaut password after installing [ssh, Secure Shell ].

Technotes, by Technowlb

"The worm will not affect users who have not jailbroken their iPhones or who have not installed SSH," said Cluley. "What's clear is that if you have jailbroken your iPhone or iPod Touch, and installed SSH, then you must always change your root user password to something different than the default 'alpine.'"