My Notes to Myself and Others... : Apple

Tides Turning

Erik Rozman — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:52:57 GMT

I find it somewhat funny to see how tides are turning. Apple used to be the medias
darling,it was touted as innovative and cool while Microsoft was old and boring…These days,
it seems that tides are starting to turn as all of a sudden Apple is no longer treated
as nicely as it used to be. Take a look at the following video by the Onion:

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Will this eventually also affect consumer perception?

MacBook Air with Vista

Erik Rozman — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:03:30 GMT

It was bound to happen. I even thought of doing it but obviously someone
managed to beat me to it. For the full review (by X-bit labs)of how it preformed take a look at:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mobile/display/apple-macbook-air.html

Vista Rulez!!!

Erik Rozman — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:15:01 GMT

Found this on the web...made me smile:

iPhone runs everything as root?

Erik Rozman — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:21:17 GMT

This might be somewhat old but it still strikes me as odd. It seems that every process
on the iPhone runs as root, which basically means that if one process is breached it will
have full access to the whole system.

When looking at this situation, on one hand you might be confident that your software
has no security flaw, thus you have nothing to worry about or you have made a mistake.

A process/user should not run with higher privileges then the ones he really needs, even
administrators should be limited- if they need to use their admin privileges it should be
done in a controlled environment both technically and mentally (be afraid...very afraid...ok,
not afraid but aware of the fact that you can wipe out your companies information).

For additional information take a look at the following post on the Metaspolit blog and the
following message on Neophasis Archives (Full Disclosure).

Free iPhone unlock released

Erik Rozman — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:04:52 GMT

I find this somewhat funny, and interesting. I never understood Apple's decision
to lock their phones (could be used only with AT&T)-it was obvious that a hack will
surface as soon as you can say iPhone. So it did.

Oddly enough, people thought that they will be able to lock the hack and gain profit
from it. It's a hack for a product that was talked about by the whole world(more or less),
for how long did you think it will remain secret???

Hope they gained enough profit in the two days they sold it to cover their expenses...

Anyway, a free one has been released:

http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

iPhone Meltdown due to hardware hacking...(OUCH!!)

Erik Rozman — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:51:09 GMT

Ok,so now I understand why Z was reluctant (to say the least) when I said:
"Lets try that hardware based unlock hack on your iPhone!"

Take a look at the full story on hackint0sh.org .

iPhone software unlock

Erik Rozman — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:51:32 GMT

Many people were disappointed by the fact that the iPhone could only be used with one
carrier,not only did this limit US owners to a specific carrier it also made it virtually impossible
for anyone outside the US to use the iPhone (think about the cost...).

A crack (or unlock) was inevitable. A hardware unlock surfaced a few days ago, yet it wasn't
for the faint hearted.

Yesterday (or so it seems) the first report of a software unlock finally surfaced on the Engadget
blog.

A few hours later a second unlock was reported.

Z-time to play...
;)