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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro And if you do not enable the root account it cannot be elevated to at all, whether you are in an admin account or not. The whole idea of Admin vs User account is relatively irrelevant in a OS X home environment …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H Trojan != virus The only way of protecting an OS against Trojans is making it so that the OS will only run signed code and all apps must be checked first by the OS vendor before being available to the wider pu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas Yes, I did see the wiggle room you tried to give your self in attempting to minimize the scope of the problem here. The problem is that you look really foolish saying "Yes, this is a serious flaw that needs to b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleADayKeepsDrAway Could the android users please remind me what's the advantage of Android again? Other than being a Verizon user and there is no choice, what reason is there to buy any Android phone and suffer the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by akhomerun possibly a huge security flaw, but remember, all iphones come with the same root password by default (i think it's still "alpine"). i think this fact probably makes it easy (but i also thought without jailbre…
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Quote: Originally Posted by success Risk? If you don't like it or something goes wrong you simply restore. 0 risk. Even if you only use MyWi that's reason alone to JB. You're paying $30-$50 per month depending on what country you live in for …
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Quote: Originally Posted by storneo What could possibly be so important to run on your IP to take such a risk? I can understand using another network, but what apps could someone want that badly? If you can't imagine anything you can't do with…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DrDoppio Relax. If a software update doesn't fix the issue, then a press conference surely will. Most likely, million dollar labs are behind the security of iOS4. Plus, it's a challenge for the entire mobile industry, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by freddych Nonsense. All Apple products are super secure. Only jailbreakers can get hacked. It takes one hell of a hack to jailbreak an iPhone through the web browser. It's not a hard concept to understand. You should…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 This video was released before the iPhone 4 was released (05/26/2010), it wasn't made by Apple:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amPG52DVQuk This was released on 06/28/2010, again it wasn't made by Apple. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram No way. No company is stupid enough to open a legal can of worms when there is technological uncertainty of this kind. In all likelihood, its competitors howled (although they asked for it, in good me…
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Ok, that was very dumb of the author of the exploit to allow such a method to get into the public light. It obviously takes one heck of a security bug or several to be able to execute code that can jailbreak a device through the web browser. If App…
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Quote: Originally Posted by canucklehead Well, if Apple's videos showed the truth about the problem with other companies' handsets, what's there to sue about. I mean, the other companies were attacking the iPhone4 first. I suspect it is probab…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Icesnake Didn't someone whine about "form over function?" Yet we know that the antenna engineer who designed the iPhone 4's antenna told Management that it was going to be a problem long before the design went gold. An…
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Quote: Originally Posted by glui2001 Apple really holds the majority of the cards here. Other carriers will likely drop their pants and bend over backwards should Apple shop around for a new carrier. Actually Verizon has already stated they h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Plagen I guess, you missed the part where I intentionally dead short it with a metal coin and still don't have a substantial drop in the connectivity. So, all the theories of 'shorting' the gap with skin don't hold wat…
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Lol, it was just confirmed at the last Verizon Sunday meeting that they were not interested in the iPhone anymore and had no current plans of bringing it to their network. They are all about Android phones now. The CDMA Verizon phones are intended …
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This is not exactly breaking news, and I think people will be disappointed. There were already news reports a month or so ago about CDMA iPhones being made, but they are not destined for the US or Verizon. They are destined for other countries using…
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Quote: Originally Posted by minderbinder Users still aren't going to care. It's still WAY overpriced and lousy performance. And most people don't care how big it is, they'd just rather have a decent affordable mac. Nice to see the improvemen…
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Aww, it's so cute. It's like a little netbook without a screen, keyboard, or battery. Not sure what I would do with such a low power machine that is meant to stay at home, but kudos on the design.