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New iControlPad Prototype Controls iPhone With Dual Nubs
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10:15AM Nick Broughall | The Whirlpool forum has been overwhelmed these past few days with jailbroken iPhone users waking to discover they’ve been rickrolled – a photo of Rick Astley seemingly permanently attached to their iPhone’s screen and the words “ikee is never going to give you up” emblazoned across the top. It seems jailbreaking may not be as safe as it seems. More »
Jailbroken iPhone? Watch For The Ikee Virus
10:15AM Nick Broughall | The Whirlpool forum has been overwhelmed these past few days with jailbroken iPhone users waking to discover they’ve been rickrolled – a photo of Rick Astley seemingly permanently attached to their iPhone’s screen and the words “ikee is never going to give you up” emblazoned across the top. It seems jailbreaking may not be as safe as it seems. More »
Software
Blacksn0w App Ready And Eager To Unlock Your iPhone 3G, 3GSes
5:58AM John Herrman | Blacksn0w, child of overserious shadow-lurker GeoHot and brother of equally straightforward jailbreak app Blackra1n, is now available and should make unlocking your late-version iPhone 3G or 3GS a dead-simple process. Before you dive in though, there’s one caveat… More »
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Dutch Hacker Holds Jailbroken iPhones Hostage For Ransom
12:23PM Rosa Golijan | Many of us have jailbroken our iPhones, but did everyone remember to change the default root password? Those guilty of that oversight are vulnerable to the simple intrusion method this guy used to hold iPhones hostage in the Netherlands. More »
Software
iPhone OS 3.1.2 Unlock Accomplished, Dropping November 4
7:12AM Chris Jacob | Geohot, the same hacker who first jailbroke OS 3.1.2, is now also the first to crack the 3.1.2 baseband. Previously, anyone who had unlocked their phone at version 3.0 or lower was fine as long as they were careful when upgrading, but anyone running 3.1 or higher was out of luck. Good news for anyone looking to unlock a newly purchased device. You’ll have to be patient, though. The exploit won’t be released until November 4. [BGR]
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How To Enable MMS On iPhone 2G, Tethering On OS 3.1.2
1:32AM John Herrman | What better way to kick off the week than with two questionably safe iPhone hacks, each of which scratches a particular nagging itch: the first being lack of MMS on 2G iPhones, and the second being tethering on OS 3.1.2. More »
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Apple’s Jailbreak-Proof iPhone 3GS Units Totally Aren’t
5:51AM John Herrman | iPhone 3GSes now ship with a chained-down boot ROM, intended to thwart jailbreakers at a fundamental level. It’s already been cracked. But for what it’s worth (seriously, what?), it has made life outside the App Store a little less convenient. More »
Software
Dev Team Cracks iPhone 3.1.2, Jailbreaks Even Previously Unbroken iPhones
2:32PM Dan Nosowitz | The Dev Team has struck again, negating the security work of the iPhone 3.1.2 update. Looks like it’ll work even if you’ve never jailbroken your phone before (though soon-to-be-released hardware may not?). Pwnage can be attained here. [Thanks, SE!] More »
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Apple’s Shipping Jailbreak Resistant iPhone 3GS Units
2:20PM Rosa Golijan | Maybe that downtime earlier is a result of bad karma for Apple’s decision to start shipping iPhone 3GS units with a supposedly jailbreak-resistant bootrom. How long until the dev-team works around the immunity to their exploit? [iClarified via BGR] More »
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