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Submission + - iPhone Reverse Engineering Opens New Door to Hacks (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31, 2007 @11:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: The iPhone Dev Team keeps closing up on their total unlocking target: they just announced that they have reverse-engineered the software which controls the iPhone's radio communications, the low-level functions of Nucleus. This is the RTOS that powers the Infineon S-Gold2, an ARM-based secondary chip which also controls the JesusPhone's multimedia abilities. The team has now a new way to search for the key to make it work with other carriers.

Submission + - Your web cam may have you on Candid Camera (www.ctv.ca)

Submitted by debest on Sunday June 17, 2007 @10:41PM

debest writes: So, you're looking to buy yourself a wireless web cam. Better make sure it's never been used before! Someone purchased this Linksys camera from an office supply retail store and was using it for months, not knowing that someone else had already purchased it, returned it, then started receiving emails from the new owners of the camera that included attachments of the new family's activities. Apparently the first guy configured the camera to email himself a video whenever it detected motion, but didn't clear the settings before returning it. The new owners had no idea that the camera had been configured to do this. Since he had no idea who the new owner was, he gets the story on national television news. Seems they discovered the family since the story went up.

Submission + - Comcast: The Fleecing of a Subscriber (multichannel.com)

Submitted by

gordette

on Sunday June 17, 2007 @07:18PM

gordette writes: "This reporter wallops Comcast in full view of industry insiders. She describes how Comcast is holding her HD channels hostage in an attempt to "bilk" her out of more money."

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