Known on the Internet as Ikeeex, the author of the first iPhone worm is now a legitimate employee working for an iPhone app company. Ashley Towns now will have his weekdays full with Mogeneration, the self-described Australia’s leading iPhone development company.” Security professionals are wary of this development. Graham Cluley of Sophos thinks “there are plenty of young coders out there who would not have acted so stupidly, are just as worthy of an opportunity inside a software development company, and are actually quite likely to be better coders than Towns who made a series of blunders with his code.”
This hiring doesn’t appear to be a public relations stunt for Mogeneration as they have not made an official announcement about hiring the iPhone worm author.
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