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Submission + - Apple Releases Fix to iPhone SMS Vulnerability

Submitted by hicks107
hicks107 writes: Today, Apple released iPhone OS 3.0.1 which fixes a vulnerability that was revealed during last week's Blackhat conference and announced here. The vulnerability allowed an attacker to compromise any iPhone by sending a specially crafted SMS message. Other smartphones, including Android phones and Windows Mobile devices, are also affected by the vulnerability but a fix has not yet been released for those devices (that I know of).
Programming

Submission + - 11-Year-Old Develops iPhone app (inc.com)

Submitted by hicks107
hicks107 writes: Over the last 9 months, Owen Voorhees has buried himself in university-level computer science books, a foreign programming language and "a mountain of doubt" to build his very own iPhone application. His creation MathTime debuted last month on Mac's App Store and soon rose to number thirteen in the paid educational apps section. "Nothing's impossible if you don't know it's impossible," said John Voorhees, Owen and Finn's father, who created an app account and provided a bank number for the boys. "He dug into it all by himself, I didn't touch a line of code."
Government

Submission + - New passport requirements go into effect today (examiner.com)

Submitted by hicks107
hicks107 writes: The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative enters it's final stage today as travelers crossing borders between the U.S. and Canada, and the U.S. and Mexico can no longer do so without a passport or other document approved by the Department of Homeland Security. However, according to the Detroit News, commuters that do not have such document are being handed pamphlets about the new requirement instead of being detained.
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Churches Use Twitter To Reach a Wider Audience 169

Posted by samzenpus from the go-tell-it-on-the-internet dept.
In an attempt to reverse declining attendance figures, many American churches are starting to ask WWJD in 140 or fewer characters. Pastors at Westwinds Community Church in Michigan spent two weeks teaching their 900-member congregation how to use Twitter. 150 of them are now tweeting. Seattle's Mars Hill Church encourages its members to Twitter messages during services. The tweets appear on the church's official Twitter page. Kyle Firstenberg, the church's administrator, said,"It's a good way for them to tell their friends what church is about without their friends even coming in the building."

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