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Originally Posted by arivero
The only security-involved hack is the existence of a open Xserver, and even this does not qualify as a security problem if a way to write to the disk is not found,
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An open X server is always a security problem. It's an oversight in configuration, and where there is one mistake, there are probably more. The severity of it may be high or low -- and also tends to alter over time, and depending on who is affected by it. To the bog-standard iLiad it is probably fairly small right now, but is that true also for that flight-chart reading iLiad, or any other special iLiads in the works?
My concern was, however, more with the Sony Reader - it occurred to me that the ability to read and write files via USB just might make it easier to get round DRM protection.