IPhone SMS Flaw - Check logs

Yesterday, I received an SMS with a blank 'bubble' and took no notice of it, as the number did not appear to be a contact, I assumed someone had mis-sent it and deleted the SMS and the number it came from.
Today, I read about the SMS flaw that has been exposed with the iPhone and it has me a little concerned, considering I received a 'blank' SMS.
Can anyone tell me how to extract or view the logs on my iPhone so I can trace back & find the number that the SMS was initiated from?

Not knowing enough about the SMS flaw, it makes it difficult to diagnose whether or not the phone should remain off or not. But from what I have read I can guess at two things.
1) If the TXT message is meant to act as a hook into the OS, then keeping it on your phone will allow the hack to work. So in this case deleting the offending TXT before the hijack can work seems like a first stage.
2) If the TXT is just used to identify the phone as being an iPhone based on how it responds to the message, then keeping it off might be the only solution.
From the sound of the news report, it was mentioned that it would be possible to take over all the iPhones in the world, not sure if this is scare mongering or not, but it does not look good. If that's the case it means that this hack could be used to find the iPhones and log the response against the IMEI number. In either case, without further information all we are doing is working in the dark. I think that it was highly irresponsible to release this to the media, but then again, if Apple have known about this for a month, then I guess it is also highly irresponsible for Apple to have ignored it and hoped that it would just go away, till there next update.
What could also be far more scary, is that if a hacker gets access to the iPhone, it would not take too much to locate a person, using the various technologies in the phone, such as GPS. Link this to the IMEI number and address book in the phone, and you can start to see why I find this exploit far more scary than just hijacking for free internet surfing.
Worse case is not worth thinking about, but at best we might all need to turn them to Airline mode, till Apple sort it out. ie. turn our 'iPhones' into an 'iPod Touch'.

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-halfway decent internal speakers for listening if you set the thing down
-iPod games are not compatible with iPhone?
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-memory is not expandable, No SD card slot
-no GPS, but close
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-No Microsoft Office, no “Significant” 3rd party apps
-Isn’t the speaker & mic on BOTTOM of phone pretty useless when in dock? Don't know
-iPhone’s web should run on AT&T’s fastest web technology, NOT EDGE
-“true” world phone? maybe...
-No black dock
-8GB is an amazing accomplishment for a phone, but a huge downfall in “iPod world” when iPods are up to 80GB now
-"runs on Mac OS X" is a pretty much a lie, can’t open OSX apps, can't store/save files or edit, no folders
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-Speakerphone / Vibrate are weak
-No voice memos, voice dialing or call recording
-Lacks video output to a TV
-No disk mode
-Can only use one of 25 preset ringtones????
-iPhone can't be used as a wireless modem for your laptop
-Keyboard hardly rotates when you want it to
-lyrics for ipod
-camera has no flash, zoom or self-portrait mirror
-Notes from iPhone doesn’t sync/show up on computer
-Safari does not support Java, Adobe Flash, stored passwords, RSS, streaming audio or video (except for some QuickTime videos) -- almost defeats purpose of “real internet in your pocket”
-no engraving on back like iPods offered
-Mail landscape view doesn’t work
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-Keyboard doesn’t rotate
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If Apple thinks that they can intentionally leave “key” features out of the iPhone just to make us think that the iPhone2 is a “significant update”, then Apple isn’t the company I thought it was. Make your phone the “best” it can possibly be for the time it comes out. Don’t leave out “standard” smartphone technology that will make people think twice about trashing their Treo or Blackberry. Adding true GPS or upgrading the internal memory is a different story, but things like the inability to copy and paste, the inability to record video, and the inability to use voice dialing should definitely not be issues with iPhone’s release, especially due to the fact that Apple had more than six months to test the thing. I really hope Apple fixes a lot of these “flaws” immediately or else iPhone won’t be as successful and as respected as it could have been.
Just trying to help. Please forward this to the appropriate iPhone Development department.
Thank You
Brian Judah
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Please take your criticisms and suggestions to the new created iPhone feedback page.

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Hi Experts,
Need a solution regarding broadcast.
There were lot of packet loss when i tired to ping inside interface of firewall.And my entire network was down.
When i checked in asdm there was DOS attack from particular ip on of internal server .
Today also i faced a similar problem, And i was not able to even log on to asdm.
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First of all are you onsite or are you somewhere else ?
It sounds like you are onsite and that the inside server is sending more packets through the link than what the firewall or the link somewhere to the firewall can handle. Ie Link saturation.
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Registration ID: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
S3 Logging Bucket: *oracle-log-javanetw-1*
Validating log bucket location ...
Time-out checking log bucket location.
Please try again later.
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I thought the best option would be to "un-register" the Amazon S3 user the installer generated. There is no documented option in osbws_install.jar to perform a full "un-install" or "un-register". The Registration ID the installer creates appears to be hard-coded metadata somewhere in Amazon S3.
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OSB_WS_LICENSE_ID
OSB_WS_LICENSE_MAX_SESSIONS
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OSB_WS_PROXY
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There is a similar post which the user ran into the same issue when removing the S3 Logging Bucket.
https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=4581188
Best regards,
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