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Comment Re:It's that darn preset target (Score 5, Insightful) 106

by illegibledotorg on Thursday April 10, 2008 @12:50PM (#23026304) Attached to: Google Shares Its Security Secrets

FWIW, their connection isn't any more encrypted than a standard VPN.

The only part of the connection that is "more secure" is the authentication phase, since they had to use two factors to log in (their token code and their password).

See Two-factor Authentication

Submission + - iPhone and iPod touch v1.1.1 full jailbreak Confir

Submitted by ABOBA on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @03:23AM

ABOBA writes: "Hacker Niacin (aka toc2rta) and Dre claim they've managed to make combine symlink hack with a TIFF vulnerability found in the v1.1.1 firmware's mobile Safari to get access to the file system. This is the hack we're testing here. Note: Due to the nature of this hack, it's to be considered ephemeral. Apple needs only to patch the TIFF vulnerability and file system access on v1.1.1 is out, with the touch and iPhone back to their previously not-too-hackable state." — Engadget

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