Apple Patches iPhone Security Vulnerability
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| "For the mass majority of consumers, there is no high value to gain in
| risking another iPhone brick," Andrew Storms, director of security operations
| for nCircle, said in an e-mail. "With the SDK on its way, it's best to
| upgrade, take advantage of the security patch, and sit tight for a few
| months."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20071113/tc_nf/56703
Related:
iPhone Security Hellhole?
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| First, the iPhone root password was broken. OK, it happens. But now it seems
| that all applications run on the iPhone as root. Can you say biggest security
| blunder of the 21st century to date?
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2191348,00.asp
IPhone Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over, Security Firm Says
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| The researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators, a company that
| tests its clients’ computer security by hacking it, said that they could take
| control of iPhones through a WiFi connection or by tricking users into going
| to a Web site that contains malicious code. The hack, the first reported,
| allowed them to tap the wealth of personal information the phones contain.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/technology/23iphone.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1185163364-1OTsRJvbylLamj17FY2wnw&oref=slogin
Another [Linux-based] iPhone Ripoff runs on cloned Vista
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| It sure looks like an iPhone, but the real interesting thing about this
| Chinese rip-off is the OS it appears to be running. Check out the bottom
| right hand corner of the screen in the image above. Windows Vista?
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http://www.latest-mobile.com/articles/iphone/another-iphone-ripoff-runs-on-cloned-vista_3919
China's iClone
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| The little gadget was bootleg gold, a secret treasure I'd spent months
| tracking down. The miniOne looked just like Apple's iPhone, down to the slick
| no-button interface. But it was more. It ran popular mobile software that the
| iPhone wouldn't. It worked with nearly every worldwide cellphone carrier, not
| just AT&T, and not only in the U.S. It promised to cost half as much as the
| iPhone and be available to 10 times as many consumers.
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http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/e7e48a137b144110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
iPhone matures the "free your phone" movement
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| This is why FreeTheIPhone.org project is born, but even better, why OpenMoko
| project exists. While some are trying to free the locked down device, others
| are creating a free unlocked device from the start, and a whole software
| framework to go with it.
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http://www.mobiliberty.com/iphone_matures_free_your_phone_movement
OpenMoko Neo1973 - an open source Linux based iPhone killer in the making ?
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/07/openmoko-neo1973-open-source-linux.html
Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices
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| "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we
| didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director for
| the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging
| numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of
| handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59162.html
Google Android dev kit exposes Apple-inspired roots
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| The release to developers of Google's Linux-based Android operating system
| for mobile phones reveals that the prototype software shares at least a few
| aspects in common with interfaces from the company's Bay Area neighbor,
| Apple.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/12/google_android_dev_kit_exposes_apple_inspired_roots.html
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