Munir Kotadia is a man on a mission – a mission to berate iPod Touch and iPhone owners until they take his security concerns seriously.  In an article seemingly designed to drive the Mac faithful into a furious rage, Kotadia highlights the potential dangers of granting access to random strangers via “Unlock your iPhone” websites. 

Okay, so titling your article “Greedy Apple users will trust anyone” is link-baiting to the extreme, but he makes some good points all the same:

“But the desire for games and more applications is driving relatively security-minded people to point their new mobile device at a Web site that was specifically designed to exploit, hack and upload unknown software onto their system … This is crazy. Do we really know what is being uploaded onto the iPhone/iPod Touch when we visit these sites? How much do we care?” Munir Kotadia

You’ve spend a not-inconsiderable about of money on your device, and it does seem foolhardy to flaunt it to any website that catches the eye, but Munir does seem to overlook the filtering effect sites like this and others has on the spread of new hacks.  You can be sure that if MY iTablet discovers a site is potentially dodgy then we won’t be recommending it to you – in fact we’ll actively warn you about it – and it’s a safe bet to say the rest of the blog community would do the same.

Yes, be cautious – don’t entrust your iPhone or iPod Touch to just anybody who invites you to try their mod – but if everybody pulled down the shutters and retreated under the bed then we’d have none of the amazing hacks, unlocks and other modifications currently available.  Experimentation is potentially risky, but it’s also at the core of new advances.