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  • Jun
  • 20
  • 2008

Why Global Hackers Are Nearly Impossible to Catch

They’re in our computers, reading our files. The Chinese government, that is, according to two U.S. Congressmen who recently accused Beijing of sending hackers to ferret out secret documents stored on Congressional computers. The Chinese deny any involvement, but if they were lying, would we be able to prove it?

Lewis said there are at least a half dozen other governments, besides China's, that have highly sophisticated hacker capabilities. This includes the United States. In fact, he said, attacks are common enough that they're almost not…

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  • Apr
  • 12
  • 2008

BRICKED_AND_SIM_LOCKED_STRING found in iPhone firmware

The Greek technology site iPhone Hellas has been poking around in the iPhone 2 beta firmware and found all sorts of GPS-related goodies, as well as some more YouTube and Google integration, but the really interesting thing (to me anyway) is that they have also found the following string buried deep in the code: BRICKED_AND_SIM_LOCKED_STRING?.

OK, I understand Apple feeling the need to play the cat and mouse game with iPhone hackers in trying to keep the iPhone secure and such, but for Apple to openly put a string in their code that flaunts their “bricking” an iPhone…

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  • Apr
  • 04
  • 2008

Flordia Woman’s iPhone Catches Her killer

When the body of 39 year-old lawyer Melissa Lewis was pulled from a canal off State Road 84, police had little information to go on. All signs pointed to her murder being a random act of violence, however thanks to her killers inability to resist her stolen iPhone, police were able to track and capture Tony Villegas

With the help of AT&T, police were able to track Lewis’ missing iPhone using cellphone towers over a 3 day period. The phone began moving west the night she was killed, and eventually police were able to pinpoint its location at…

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  • Mar
  • 30
  • 2008

Apt-Get Linux Fix

There may be times when you have to lock a particular piece of software on your Linux system (this is sometimes called pinging). Plain and simple, there are certain software packages on your system that you won’t want to upgrade. The most typical reason for this is that the upgrade ends up breaking something…

2. Type this: sudo ln -s /var/lib/synaptic/preferences /etc/apt/preferences

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  • Feb
  • 28
  • 2008

Google Gives All San Francisco Homeless Free Voicemail

Google has made an announcement that could help hundreds of homeless people in San Francisco get back on their feet. Every single homeless person in the city will be given a life-long phone number and voicemail.

?We're firm believers in the power of technology to improve the daily lives of individuals and communities as a whole, and we recognize that access to phone and voicemail services is one way that Google can help San Francisco's…

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