If your iPhone is password protected and if you think your Godphone is totally secured, then you are totally wrong. With just a few taps, anyone can get access to all your private and confidential information including mail, contacts and safari. Gizmodo has demonstrated this trick with a video demonstration.
iPhone may be the ‘God phone’ but that usual Apple logo on the back is really boring. Some Russian hacker has mod the iPhone’s normal Apple logo into an eye-catching and glowing logo. The video doesn’t reveal much detail on how they did it, But still it’s interesting. Watch the video after the break.
Pleo for sure is a cute robot. But it can also help you learn about robotics. Some folks at Otto-Friedrich-University in Bamberg, Germany, calling themselves GRIP (Group for Interdisciplinary Psychology) have posted two tutorials designed to wirelessly connect Pleo to a remote computer and give him the ability to recognise faces.
Three MIT students hacked the subway train ticketing system’s CharlieCard smartcards and the mag-stripe on its paper CharlieTickets and offer up open source tools they made while conducting their research, among other gaping holes. They were planning to do a talk on Anatomy of a Subway Hack at Defcon this past weekend. But a lawsuit by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority on Friday afternoon had stopped them. You can still read their presentation here
Kevin Kelly at KK got an interesting post about the cool software Face swapper developed by Dmitri Bitouk and Neeraj Kumar of Columbia University that “de-indentifies” people in photos to protect their privacy.
Face swapping software finds faces in a photograph and swaps the features in the target face from a library of faces. This can be used to “de-identify” faces that appear in public, such as the faces of people caught by the cameras of Google Street View.
Finally iPhone Dev team has released the Pwnage Tool 2.0. Now jailbreaking can be done for 3G iPhones. SIM Unlocking can’t be done yet. Users have came out with mixed results at Engadget but none has reported for bricked iPhone so far. If you got the guts, try it for yourself.
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Whenever Apple release a product, Sooner or later people always come with a Hack. It came as Unlocking in the case of iPhone and VoIP support for iPod Touch. Just after couple days Steve Jobs introduced the iTunes Movie rentals at Macworld 2008, Here come the hack to keep and watch the movie for more [...]
If you’re a Orkut user and like to see those locked albums when you browse through the Orkut profiles, Here is a Hack from Userscripts.org that lets you browse through other people’s private albums.
Recently in Recently in December google added some features that lets the user to put private settings on Photos, Videos and scrap [...]
