You should change the title - the content is interesting enough that you don't need the mystery, and many people who would otherwise be interested probably won't click.
No, I think the BS title is the perfect lead-in for this sort of BS article, which provides no details and makes completely ludicrous claims e.g. being able to directly talk to cell radio hardware from an iPhone app sandbox.
Still very improbable that this app has direct, hardware-level access to these chips. Or--if it does--that the sandboxes won't be patched to fix the hole this app is using.
You may as well invest in a Kickstarter for a free energy machine.
"That means you can’t have your iPhone in airplane mode while using PDQ, for example, because then it wouldn’t be able to tap into its wireless chips."
The only radio that's disabled in Airplane Mode is the cell radio. WiFi and Bluetooth still work if you turn them back on (Airplane Mode turns them off, but does not disable them).
Maybe they didn't actually mean that or understand what they were saying. But that's what I'm saying: BS article.
And it's not like it really matters. You can hardly talk directly to the WiFi or Bluetooth chips from an iOS app sandbox either.
Physically on chip, they are one in the same, especially since they share antennas.
There's no way apple will let this through. A lightly secured connection protocol that can talk to your device disk sounds like a security nightmare. A nice 0-day exploit and a stroll through a downtown BART station sounds like a blast.
Cool stuff though!