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Hackers Finally Unlock iPhone 3G 186

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 03, 2009 @09:18AM from the information-and-iphones-want-to-be-free dept.

nandemoari quotes a story at Infopackets: "2009 has gotten off to a great start for a team of iPhone enthusiasts with little regard for Apple's licensing requirements. They've finally figured out a way to get the phone to work with any cell phone carrier (and not just AT&T). The iPhone Dev Team is best known for their work on 'jailbreaking;' the technique of altering an iPhone so that you can run any applications on it, not just those approved by Apple. Given the company's questionable vetting policy for entry to the official App store, it's not surprising many users approve of jailbreaking."

US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search 623

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @11:02AM from the fair-enough dept.

bfwebster writes "Orin Kerr over at The Volokh Conspiracy (a great legal blog, BTW) reports on a US District Court ruling issued just last week which finds that doing hash calculations on a hard drive is a form of search and thus subject to 4th Amendment limitations. In this particular case, the US District Court suppressed evidence of child pornography on a hard drive because proper warrants were not obtained before imaging the hard drive and calculating MD5 hash values for the individual files on the drive, some of which ended up matching known MD5 hash values for known child pornography image and video files. More details at Kerr's posting." Update: 10/28 16:23 GMT by T : Headline updated to reflect that this is a Federal District Court located in Pennsylvania, rather than a court of the Commonwealth itself.

Google Opens Up Android Codebase 204

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @01:00PM from the now-even-more-open-sourced dept.

rsk writes "It's official: Google has Open Sourced Android. The source code can be downloaded from Android's Git repository. Bugs are handled at the Google Code Android project page with documentation being handled by a collection of Google Site pages. One of the more interesting aspects of Android seems to be the seemingly Eclipse Foundation-like organization of the project, welcoming both Individual and Commercial developers into the Android development pot. One of the benefits of this arrangement is securing the existence of the project by involving commercial interests and their money in the process ... this is also one of the downsides; having commercial entities charter and lead features of a platform that their own commercial offerings provide 'enhanced' versions of, sometimes leaving the free offering always lacking in one obvious way or another. It's hard to say at this point how involved Google will be in this process, or the Open Handset Alliance in general, with managing the health of sub-projects under the Android umbrella as time goes on."

Comment Re:Welcome to academia (Score 1) 71

by Omega697 on Tuesday August 29, 2006 @10:52AM (#15999743) Attached to: Quitting the Graphics Field Over SIGGRAPH

No, most of academia is not like this. Did you even read anything? His complaint is that SIGGRAPH is the only game in town. If your stuff gets rejected, first of all, the only place to resubmit it is SIGGRAPH. Secondly, you have to wait a whole year to resubmit to the same place, because there aren't any other respected conferences in graphics.

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