iPhone owners in Australia were lucky enough to be the first once to experience the first ever iPhone worm. It affects users of jailbroken iPhones and simply changes the lock background image to Rick Astley with the messages saying:

ikee is never going to give you up

The first line of the code says:

/ “ikee virus” by ikex

So who is ikex and more importantly why? As very few of us know the first ever computer worm was written by Robert Tappan Morris, who also was first U.S. convict under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He is now an associate professor at MIT. So after all it worked out fine for him. Will it work the same way for ikex? So what was the reason for ikex to create ikee?

Author of the worm was nice enough to explain why he did it

Why?: Boredom, because i found it so stupid the fact that on my initial scan of my 3G optus range i found 27 hosts running SSH daemons, i could access 26 of them with root:alpine. Doesn’t anyone RTFM anymore?So what does it tell us?

It tells us that once again a lot of people do not care much about their privacy.
Mobile web is rapidly changing and there are so many online services that also can be accessed from your mobile device with the key to the kingdom (you user name and password) stored on the device itself. It can be compared with putting your money in the safe and putting a sticker with the password on the safe door.

Wake up, its 2009!