This entire story smells like hogwash. The first line of the story disagrees with the HN headline:<p><i>"Apple may be working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could possibly allow an attacker to"</i><p>Notice the wording: "may". Apple hasn't said anything to these researchers or the press. Overall the article has nothing more to report on the situation than we already know, and is simply rehashing what we already know about the vulnerability -- with one extra [telling] tidbit:<p><i>""I don't have a working exploit for it, just a suspicious looking crash," Miller said. If so, the malicious code could theoretically include commands to ..."</i><p>So actually, it looks like they haven't even managed to root an iPhone yet.