iHype: Hacking good, hacking bad and AT&T kickbacks

We noticed last week that we'd become somewhat of an iPhone centric blog.  Sure, the iPhone is great, but now we've taken a few days off of reporting every little twist and turn in the iPhone saga an instead bring back iHype.  Today, the iPhone now runs third party apps, plus off-the-shelf iPhones are succeptible to some pretty invasive hacks, and how much is AT&T giving back to Apple for that locked-phone goodness?

iPhone 3rd-party app compiled, loaded, run
Gizmodo reports on the first iPhone hello world app successfully run on the beloved device.  Apparently iPhone hacker extrordinare Nightwatch launched the application after creating a faux SDK to compile aps based on the iPhones ARM processor.

iPhone steals your data, gives to malicious hackers
While we've been waiting for iPhone hacked headlines to hit since June 29th, unfortunately some folks have hacked the iPhone in a more invasive way.  Security Evaluators say the iPhone can be tricked into navigating onto a malicous webpage that can grab call logs, text messages, address book entries and even voicemail data.  The hack could be delivered through navigating to an unsafe page, but also if an attacker controlled access point was used, the attacker could force the person to browse to the page as soon as Safari opens.

So far, it's just proof-of-concept, but regardless Apple should have some sort of firmware fix coming.

[Via IntoMobile]

AT&T pays Apple $3 - $11 per month per iPhone
The iPhone no doubt had major appeal to carriers, so much so that it sounds like AT&T is willing to give up to $11 per month to Apple per subscriber.  Now, we've seen analysts get it wrong before, but regardless, if Apple is netting any money back from the carrier, they definitely did a good job at the negotiation table.