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Oh no, not again! Apple firewire exploit published!

be3n — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:40:42 +0000

This is Deja Vu of an attack from years ago where RAM was accessed from the firewire buss. This study published back in Sept 2011 (that i am late to discover) revisits this attack on Lion. Security researchers from frameloss published the specifics on an attack and how to avoid it. Learn how your password could be extracted from your computer’s memory via your firewire port. Even when you thought it was locked! Even with FileVault!

Mostly you must turn off fast user switching, and activate a feature that dumps the password for added security. read all about it here. . .

http://www.frameloss.org/2011/09/18/firewire-attacks-against-mac-os-lion-filevault-2-encryption/#more-540

Absinthe makes my iPhone 4s go down smooth!

be3n — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:49:06 +0000

The long wait is finally over. Due to the diligent efforts of EVERYBODY in the scene, (@pod2g, @planetbeing, @saurik, @pimskeks, @p0sixninja, @MuscleNerd, and @xvolks) we can finally jailbreak our A5 devices. iPhone 4s and iPad 2 are now jailbroken and untethered with the latest and most complex jailbreak to date. Works with iOS 5 or iOS 5.0.1. Representing hundreds if not thousands of man hours (it even takes forever to run). Enjoy! i included a donate link at the bottom if you wish to buy them a beer.

Download Absinthe from Chronic:
http://greenpois0n.com

or Dev-Team Tools here: (currently CLI only)
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

Donate to the combined effort. (despite paypal)

free your mind! free our internet! Stop SOPA PIPA!

be3n — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:32:13 +0000

If you can’t stop piracy with the hundreds of laws already on the books, i guess it cannot be done.

I stand in solidarity with Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, and all the others who are blacking out their websites to raise awareness of these terrible terrible bills.

Hilarious Kristen Bell Funny or Die Video!

be3n — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:50:46 +0000

Her favorite tattoo is my favorite joke. EVER!

Kristen Bell’s Body of Lies from Kristen Bell

Pounding my head against hactivation

be3n — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:27:29 +0000

Lessons learned activating an unlocked iphone with iOS 5.0.1 and a neat activation workaround. I have been working with the new iOS hacktivation in preparation of upgrading unlocked phones to 5.0.1. i finally cracked it. (not entirely happy with my method, but it works) Tips for anyone madly googling answers . . .

Short answer is SAM, (don’t hacktivate) but if you want to create a bundle using PwnageTool, you will want to add these repos:

http://files6.thebigboss.org/repofiles/cydia/dists/stable/main/binary-iphoneos-arm/Packages

http://apt.modmyi.com/dists/stable/main/binary-iphoneos-arm/Packages

Lastly, you will want a list of packages required to make it all work (only necessary for building it into custom bundles). If you are using Cydia to install it, you won’t need this, skip down to the trick about temporarily activating.

Packages:
ACUtil
Core Utilites
Erica Utilities
Mobile Substrate
PreferenceLoader
SAM
SAMPrefs
Stockify
Substrate Safe Mode
UIKit Tools
libhide
libpar2
libsigc++
ultrasn0w (not really required unless you are unlocking)

Dangerous Activation Workaround
If you are caught locked out of your phone and unable to run anything, here is a trick that can get you out for a sec. (not a long term solution at all). First off, warning, if you aren’t quick your phone will actually call emergency services (911). that being said, here goes. . .

First slide the slider to enter the setup wizard. At any time, you can press the Home button and select Emergency Call. Upon the dialpad dial 112 Send. As soon as you press send, hold the sleep (top) button until the power slider appears. Touch cancel, then tap the green bar to return to the call in progress and end it as soon as possible. At this time, it should exit the wizard and return you to the home screen. Quickly install SAM with cydia, because as soon as you power down, or even sleep the phone, you will be locked out all over again.

Art Show 2011 presented by Mr Brainwash in LA!

be3n — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:46:13 +0000

I visited the show just before closing yesterday. It was overflowing with street art. Literally. it seemed as though paint and scrawled graffiti radiated from the warehouse. The installation itself was huge. More then four floors of the warehouse were open to the public. Full of sculptures, automobiles, and appliances made art. This was a concentrated example of the phenomena that is street art. At times the senses are overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of detail. Admission was free, as were the posters. Mr brainwash and many of the featured artists were there signing posters. here are a few of my favorites from the show. . .

pod2g left an untether in my stocking this year!

be3n — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:15:31 +0000

He passed his double exploit untether to both the chronic Dev team and the iPhone Dev team and today we receive the bounty. this untether relies on the linera1n exploited published by Geohot and therefore is only available on devices previously tethered. In other words no iPad 2 or iPhone 4s yet.

OccupyLA gets some riot police!

be3n — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:29:02 +0000

Riot police is here now, but don’t yet appear to be doing anything. be safe.

OccupyLA Eviction Freedom Block Party!

be3n — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:53:07 +0000

I will be attending! will you join me? Stand up and be counted! (you almost certainly will NOT be arrested)

Siri is down again!

be3n — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:06:35 +0000

how my supposed to blog while driving if Siri isn’t reliable. honestly, the most frustrating part is that the purple bullets that represent the processing of a voice command request just disappear and there’s nothing! no sorry I couldn’t make that work for you, no sorry I’m having trouble connecting to the network right now. nothing. I feel that Siri was far too popular and utilized for the piddly servers that Apple has devoted to the project. in my opinion Apple needs to do two things to resolve this problem. First, they need you reintroduce the voice commands that were available without the network like they have in the iPhone 4 and 3GS. Second, they need to provide more capacity to the Siri network. this way if they got the Siri equivalent of the fail whale, they’d at least be able to handle some of the audio processing that previous phones have been capable of.