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  • iPhone Push problem broadcasts your AIMs to random recipients, could affect jailbroken/unlocked phones

    iPhone Push problem broadcasts your AIMs to random recipients, could affect jailbroken/unlocked phones

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Till Schadde, founder of development house Equinux has discovered an exploit - a broadcast error, really - that sends your AIM messages to random recipients without your knowledge or consent. The problem seems to happen in unlocked/jailbroken iPhones and results in a alert appearing on a recipients home screen bearing your message. Till tested the service by sending an AIM from the OS X desktop using iChat to his iPhone. He then received a reply back from a random recipient. It is clear that this is a Push problem in the message addressing - each iPhone is assigned its own identifier and receives messages from a central server operated by Apple - although this may change.

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  • Palm: Prithee, good sirs, speak not of Palm Pre tethering

    Palm: Prithee, good sirs, speak not of Palm Pre tethering

    Posted on June 15, 2009 | No Comments
    In an example of rolling over in the name of "good relationships," the Pre Dev Wiki has shut down their tethering page because "Sprint could get angry." This is in stark contrast with iPhone devs who couldn't give two squirts about "good relationships" and instead produce interesting technical content including unlocked phones.
    "We have been politely cautioned by Palm that any discussion of tethering during the Sprint exclusivity period (and perhaps beyond—we don't know yet) will probably cause Sprint to complain to Palm, and if that happened then Palm would be forced to react against the people running the IRC channel and this wiki.

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  • Google blocks unlocked G1s from downloading for-pay applications, upsets developers

    Google blocks unlocked G1s from downloading for-pay applications, upsets developers

    Posted on February 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Looks like Google is now preventing anyone with an unlocked G1 from downloading for-pay applications from the Android Market. Google says this is to prevent piracy (but only in the most abstract sense, in my [worthless] opinion), but some developers don't like the idea. Welcome to the Situation Room, I'm Wolf Blitzer.

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