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Clear iSpot's device filtering falls to the hackers in near record time

We have absolutely no idea what this means for iSpot owners' service plans if they go through with this -- for all we know, they'll detect un-iPad-like amounts of usage and threaten to up your monthly fee -- but if you're the risky type and you've got an iSpot lying around, its pesky MAC filtering can be a thing of the past with just a tiny bit of effort. There's a blog out there that now has concise instructions posted for gaining root access on the hotspot and tweaking config files to

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Apple iOS 4.0.2 for iPhone Patches PDF Exploit [Ios]

Apple's pushing out iOS 4.0.2 for iPhones and iPod Touches and iOS 3.2.2 for iPads, an update that patches the previous versions' PDF exploit and wipes out your iPhone's unlock and nice new jailbreak ... More » ...

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'Signal' jailbreak app for iPhone maps out your towers, turns death gripping into a pastime

If you're familiar with Android apps like CellFinder, you've got a good idea for what this is -- and the name "Signal" is a pretty accurate representation, too. Basically, iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing has thrown together a neat little app that shows you signal strengths of your phone's connections to nearby cell towers along with their position relative to you (if the positions can be determined), an especially welcome utility considering that you can't access Apple's old "field test mode"

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The 404 640: Where we finally run Frash (podcast)

(Credit:Por Homme) ... Adoble launched their Flash players for the Android 10.1 operating system back in June, and now Apple is getting the same treatment, but under the table. The same hacker group that released the Website jailbreakme.com has released an early version of Flash for jailbroken iPhones ... The program is called Frash (pause for Jeff to laugh) and at the moment, it can only handle sites with basic Flash animations, so don't expect to watch streaming videos from sites like youtube

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Apple Stores Block Jailbreakme.com, Pranksters Undeterred

The best part of the easy, web-based jailbreak exploit for iOS devices was that pranksters have been hacking iPhones inside Apple Stores. Of course, Apple didn’t like this and did what any parent would do if the kids were causing trouble: it blocked Jailbreakme.com from the in-store Wi-Fi. A simple, effective fix, right? Actually, no ...

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Flash ported to iPhone 4, available for download (video)

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Engadget Mobile Podcast 049 - 08.07.2010

Sex scandals, arson, flipouts, jailbreaks: it's the Engadget Mobile Podcast that's also an episode of The Young and the Restless ... Hosts: Chris Ziegler, Myriam Joire (tnkgrl) ... Producer: Trent Wolbe ... Music: Daestro - Light Powered (Ghostly International) ... 00:40 - HP CEO Mark Hurd resigns over sexual harassment investigation (updated with liveblog!) ... 07:02 - BlackBerry Torch review ... 24:55 - EVO 4G starts getting Android 2.2 update over the air ... 34:02 - Motorola Flipout makes

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Apple Peel 520 gets reviewed: turns your iPod touch into an iPhone, but quirks exist

No one expressly said that the Apple Peel 520 would change your life, but if you play your cards right, that's not entirely out of the question. The mysterious doodad -- which wraps around your iPod touch and holds an extended battery and SIM card -- has caused quite the stir since being revealed late last month, and now it has undergone a full review overseas. Put simply, the device does work as advertised, turning one's iPod touch into a device fully capable of making / receiving calls as

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JailbreakMe using PDF exploit to hack your iPhone, so could the baddies; Apple looking into reports

As with any jailbreak or rooting of a handset, "hacking" a phone OS is usually exactly that: exploiting a weakness to get unsigned code onto a device. That means that any other hacker, be they sufficiently nefarious, could use that same exploit to mess with your phone in the bad, not-installing-emulators-off-of-Cydia sense. Early iPhone jailbreaks (back when installing your own ringtones was a wild idea) took advantage of a TIFF exploit, the recent EVO 4G root found a hole in Flash Lite, and the

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Jailbreakme site utilizes PDF exploit in iOS

We reported on the return of browser-based jailbreakme.com yesterday. Today IT security guru F-Secure revealed just how the site is able to work ... The jailbreak method utilizes a PDF exploit found in the iOS software. Charlie Miller with Independent Security Evaluators, tweeted, " Starting to get a handle on jailbreakme.com exploit. Very beautiful work. Scary how it totally defeats Apple's security architecture." ... What the exploit does is take a PDF sitting in a subdirectory of

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