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The iPhone Serial Port Hack

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the totally-top-secret dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The iPhone's little known secret, a hidden serial port, is revealed. 'The real benefit in all of this is that there are so many console packages for iPhone in Cydia now that you can have a fully functional computer, as useful as a Linux box, but without carrying around a laptop.'"

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  1. Re:If u want linux in your smartphone by countSudoku() · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Get a Nokia N900 or Android.

    Sound advice, AC! I'm boggled by the fact that 1) they have to HIDE it, and 2) that we have to HACK to get to it, and 3) that crApple will disable it now that it's found, and 4) I don't already have an Android phone... :)

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    This is the NSA, we're gonna geet U h@x0r5! Also, what is a h@x0r5?
  2. Re:If u want linux in your smartphone by Dog-Cow · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your purposeful ignorance and your sig are perfectly complementary. Of course, your mind may not be closed; it might just be absent.