Here is the explanation by Steve Kangas. Many can be used with Safari. SV
How do they work? Each bookmarklet is a tiny program (a JavaScript application) contained in a bookmark (the URL is a "javascript:" URL) which can be saved and used the same way you use normal bookmarks. The idea was suggested in the Netscape JavaScript Guide.
JavaScript has been used by page authors on millions of webpages; Bookmarklets allow anybody to use JavaScript - on whatever page you choose (not just your own page).
Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the surf and search capabilities of Netscape and Explorer web browsers.
Bookmarklets are free.
Bookmarklets allow you to:
* Modify the way you see someone else's webpage. * Extract data from a webpage. * Search more quickly, and in ways not possible with a search engine. * Navigate in new ways.
...and more. Over 150 bookmarklets are available.
Bookmarklets work on all platforms (Windows, Macintosh, Unix,...)
You do not have to download or install software to use Bookmarklets. Bookmarklets
Apple’s architecture does not allow non-Apple people to write and run programs on the iPhone. However, hackers are hacking on that architecture by attempting to run non-iPhone programs on the iPhone. Apple only allows to run code from the Safari browser. But as you can see in this stream, hackers are already able to run Nintendo games on the iPhone. However the performance is not pretty but it’s a start. informationweek.
Today the first iPhone software update is released. iPhone 1.0.1. It patches the vulnerabilities in Safari and some other security holes recently discovered. And for those with hacked iPhones, the update appears to wipe your mods! Which mod exactly remains unclear. The researchers who discovered the flaws in Safari were set to reveal the details of their finds at the annual hacker conference. wired
The mobile operators are commonly responsible to patch flaws and bugs of mobile phones. Apple left this right as (software)manufacturer open. According to IDGnews, patching the iPhoneflaw would also show that Apple had made the right decision in reserving the right to patch the phone itself instead of handing over control of the iPhone software to the mobile carrier companies, as is common practice with mobile phones. Carriers have been slow to patch devices, even when they have known bugs, said Robert Graham, CEO of Errata Security Inc. “Right now other smart phones are full of vulnerabilities and they are not getting patched,” he said. “This is actually a good test to see if Apple can do this better than the mobile carriers.”
Okay listen, when you start safari and open a webpage, your iPhone can accept and run mailcious code without your notice. That is basically the exploit found by researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), a company that tests its clients’ computer security by hacking it. What they claim is that you simply injects specific malicious code to the Safari browser which can control your iPhone to let it do anything what you, as phone owner, can do. Examples: send the contact list to the attacker or steal any file on the iPhone. Let your phone vibrate and ring some ringtones. Dial a number, send a SMS or start recording audio and send it to the attacker (oldskool bug-device!). The stream below does not really proof their claim but ISE member Dr. Charlie Miller will be presenting the details of the exploit at BlackHat in Las Vegas on August 2 at 4:45. A deadline for Apple fix the problem. Here is a paper for the techguys among us.
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