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The Official Reason AT&T Blocked 4Chan
2:09AM Matt Buchanan | Fresh from the Mouth of AT&T, who like his Lord of the Rings counterpart, wears creepy masks at inappropriate times is AT&T’s official reason they blocked 4chan. It was, as suspected, blamed on a DDoS attack from that IP address: More »
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Why Did AT&T Block 4Chan?
10:59PM Matt Buchanan | It’s indisputable at this point that AT&T blocked 4chan—what’s 4chan, you ask?—the cesspool that has spawned some of the internet’s greatest memes, like LOLCATs. We hear it’s because of a massive DDoS attack emanating from that IP address. More »
Phones
Hacker Claims IPhone 3GS Encryption Is Dangerously Easy To Crack
12:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Noted iPhone security destroyer Jonathan Zdziarski has cracked the iPhone 3GS encryption security, which is to be expected, but the ease and speed with which he did it is worrisome. Zdziarski claims the iPhone 3GS is thus “useless” to businesses. More »
Phones
iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages To Random People
11:57PM Jesus Diaz | According to developer Till Schadde, random people may be receiving your AIM messages if you have a jailbroken or unlocked iPhone. In fact, anyone with a jailbroken iPhone may be getting it, according to his testing: More »
Hardware
Build Your Own Electronic Post-it Note
12:30PM Sean Fallon | Post-it notes are one of those archaic products that still manage to stick around, literally, in our offices and homes. With this hack, you can transform the beloved Post-it into a very 21st century digital note system. To leave a note, all you need to do is write it out with your finger on the trackpad. The message will show up on the LCD, which can be erased with a push of a button. It’s not the easiest hack in the world, but for only $175 it’s not the most expensive either. Plus, with a nice enclosure, it could be very functional. [PopSci] More »
Phones
iPhone 1.1.3 Jailbreak Has Issues With GPS, Official SDK?
5:06AM Jason Chen | It seems the first iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak by Nate True we all rushed to install is throwing a handful of problems, some of which are fixable and some of which leave us wishing we had waited a little bit. Here’s what we know so far from personal experience and what we’ve read on the Internet. More »
Games
Wii Officially Hacked?
9:40AM Jason Chen | Wii modchips have been around since the start of the year in one form or another, but some folks at the 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress just demoed a new Wii hack that lets them have full access to the console, including all the hardware. By using a custom serial interface, they were able to grab access to the encryption and decryption keys during runtime by doing memory dumps. Don’t worry about the details if you’re not sure what’s going on, just know that you’re going to be able to run even better homebrew and “backup” Wii games in the near future. [Nintendo Scene via WiiNintendo] More »
Entertainment
PS3 Rock Band Drums Work with Garage Band
10:41PM Jesus Diaz | Reader Bill Pendry has discovered that you can easily get your PlayStation 3 Rock Band’s drums to work perfectly with Garage Band, the music composition software that comes with every Mac. The “hack” just requires GamePad Companion, a $US15 shareware program that will map the input from the drums into keystrokes. Since Garage Band can use the keyboard to play MIDI instruments, it will work right away. We just wish Bill’s friend tried to pull out some crazy Buddy Rich for his video: More »
Peripherals
Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Keyboards Cracked for Coworker Espionage
9:00AM Matt Buchanan | The crackers at Dreamlab have busted open the wireless encryption on Microsoft’s Optical Desktops 1000 and 2000, as well as any others using the same simplistic scheme: There’s only about 256 possible encryption keys, making it like pie to crack after sniffing a few tens of keystrokes. So easy, in their demo they nail three keyboards at once. If you don’t wanna deal with the hack-speak, the bottom line is that a remotely enterprising and nosy co-worker could whip up a wireless keylogger to spy on the whole office. Then again, what office springs for wireless keyboards for everybody? [Remote-Exploit.org via Hackaday] More »
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