As a professional car hacker who's spent years reverse engineering automotive embedded systems and writing the software you speak of I take offense to your statement!
iPod movies are a great way to pass the time on airplanes, or on layovers in airports. I always take the AV cable when I travel so I can hook it up to the TV when I get to the hotel room.
A friend of mine invited me to linkedin by using my personal email address and lo and behold I started getting a ton of spam relating to owning a business.
Never EVER EVER type your (or a friends') email address in to a website no matter how reputable they seem. They will change their privacy policy the second they decide to make a buck.
And I hope the linkedin people go to hell because now that email address is about useless.
Back when I was in high school my father was the chairman of the historical society in town and someone had at one time donated a pretty large moon rock to the museum.
We looked in to selling it because the interest of the money in the bank would pay all the museums bills indefinitely.
Turns out...
NASA is the only place that can verify the authenticity of a moon rock. They would not guarantee that they would give it back. A moon rock is a national treasure. A national treasure can not be owned so it can't be legally sold.
What's funny is I had no idea of the potential value of the small object we had in our house. The rock was almost the size of a small lemon.
I've been waiting for HD content for YEARS. I remember thinking that NTSC was crap back in the early 90s and wishing for something better. I just thought it was disgusting that we had been relying on ancient technology for so long.
I finally broke down and picked up a decent TV and a ps3 earlier in the year and it's been like a breath of fresh air. The quality bottleneck in the bluray movies is finally the video source, not the format.
Check out the Dark Knight teaser on the Batman Begins bluray on a decent 1080p tv. It was literally jaw dropping for my friends and I. The thing is we should have been watching video like this 10 years ago.
I just don't understand it when people say DVD is "good enough". You can see the compression artifacts! (and that's on a low resolution display)
Oh and the DRM is annoying.... I suspect it will only be a matter of time before I'll be ripping the movies to watch on my portable devices just like I do with DVD. Just crack it and get on with your life.
It seems likely to me that the key is going to be tied to the 1.1.3 firmware and not the SDK in particular. If the key is NOT on the phone side it has to be on the iTunes/PC side which is easy to crack.
If I were to design the security system to keep unauthorized applications off of the phone I'd put the final security check on the phone itself. This would prevent anyone from just making their own application for uploading software to the phone. If the key is phone side then this isn't possible.
If the key IS phone side and this is the correct key then the damage is already done. All that is needed is for hackers to figure out the intended method for uploading applications to the 1.1.3 firmware phones.
Apple wants to SELL the applications. If any coder can spend a weekend working up a decent solitaire game then that means they won't be able to charge $5 (or whatever) for their solitaire game on iTunes. The cell phone market has ALWAYS been about nickel and diming the customer to death. Charging for text messages?
The movement to provide on-demand services is NOT about improving life for the customer. It has ALWAYS been about improving revenue. Getting more for less.
and anyway...
I own a hacked iPhone with the 1.1.2 firmware with about 15 third-party applications on it. This thing is by far the most useful consumer electronics device I've ever owned (besides my pc of course). I don't have to upgrade to 1.1.3 and it is still useful to me. When it's cracked I'll upgrade.... but either way it's still a win/win for me.
The most impressive sky I have ever seen was right after a typhoon on the island of Guam. I snuck out of my house when I was 16 and the island was still under a typhoon warning and nobody was outside.
The entire island and the neighboring island of Truk were both without power entirely and there was not a single cloud in the sky. It truly was a spectacular sight and I do feel sad when I look up into the night here in the states.
You can't imagine what it's like until you've seen it for yourself. Really
The article doesn't claim that the attack uses the JTAG port. It claims that he used the JTAG port to find some sort of vulnerability. People do this ALL THE TIME.... I do it at work to reverse engineer automotive computers.
Now it does say that there is some peculiarity of these specific CPUs that makes them vulnerable to an attack of some sort. I hope the peculiarity isn't the presense of the JTAG port. If you assume people won't get your binary code off of a chip because it doesn't have a debug port then you're a fool.
They could probably stamp official licensed games on cdrom in a pinch using the backdoors that the pirates exploited long ago. The downside to this is that the games would be damn easy to copy.
The military should be using Google Earth to find weak points in their bases so they can FIX THEM.
You think if google earth didn't exist people wouldn't get this information? Well when they do you're going to be fscked and unprepared... It's like a real world analog for security through obscurity.
Most people can afford to pay $14,000 a year for medication? Good thing this isn't life threatening... go cruise a few local fast food restaurants and see if you can find some people older than highschool age working there. (they exist). I guess they are just out of luck?
Maybe they could just import grey market meds from outside of the country.... that is unless customs siezes the packages. you know.. for their SAFETY.
People just need to use common courtesy when driving. If someone behind you wants to go faster than you then MOVE OVER. Even if you don't have an extra lane there is usually a shoulder.
If we all cooperate there is generally little reason for anyone to get angry or participate in road rage.
The Nissan 350Z that I'm working with right now allows me to read the steering wheel position, brake pedal pressure, and gas pedal position in realtime via the diagnostics port. In fact.. you can even purchase the software to do it yourself! *plug* *plug*:) http://www.uprev.com/products/cipher_z_g.html
Converting this into controller input as a USB hid device or PS2 controller input would be trivial... in fact I'm tempted to go and try and get Gran Turismo running on it... I'll put a projector out in the garage;)
Would anyone actually use this if I provided some schematics/software?
FYI: I believe the car must be equipped with the VDC (Vehicle Dynamic Control)
in order to have a steering wheel position sensor that can be read from.
I bet there are a bunch of people (like gamers) who would have no problems giving to a charity if they had some way of knowing it was legit. Helping people feels good, getting taken advantage of makes you hate the world.
I made a promise to somebody that I'd make a donation to a charity so I did a little research and found a place to send $50 to. I included a note asking them not to send anything back. (I didn't care about the stuffed animal or whatever they were offering) Well this was 3 years ago and I still get a constant stream of crap from these, and other people. I've got more personalized envelopes, address labels, calendars, notepads, etc. than I know what to do with. I'm sure it's well more that $50 to print and send this.
Anyway... they aren't getting any more money from me... it reeks too much of a seedy business. However, a charity run by a couple of people who don't do this for a living and are very open/public about how the money and donations get used? I'd have no problems giving them money.
I wonder if this partly explains some of the success of the program or if they just found the right people to "market" to.:)
Isn't it scary how skittish most people have become about big corporations? So careful not to do anything that might anger them for fear of a lawsuit. Was it always this way?
Only 80 games will turn a profit? I find this hard to believe. Maybe the title should be changed to "Only 80 licensed huge piles of crap will succeed"
In the last hour of television I saw two commercials for upcoming games. Some sort of Shrek allstars fighting game and a crash bandicoot racing game. Same old tired concepts with IP licenses attached.
Who's supporting this? Who's paying money for this? I'd like to know who to blame. Is it the stupid rednecks who support 'intelligent' design? The people who voted for Bush?
I used to actually like video games and it makes me very angry to see something that used to be fun ruined by greedy business types.
most people don't reverse engineer game consoles from scratch. 99% of the time they have inside info. They just don't announce it to try and cover themselves legally.
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As a professional car hacker who's spent years reverse engineering automotive embedded systems and writing the software you speak of I take offense to your statement!
iPod movies are a great way to pass the time on airplanes, or on layovers in airports. I always take the AV cable when I travel so I can hook it up to the TV when I get to the hotel room.
A friend of mine invited me to linkedin by using my personal email address and lo and behold I started getting a ton of spam relating to owning a business.
Never EVER EVER type your (or a friends') email address in to a website no matter how reputable they seem.
They will change their privacy policy the second they decide to make a buck.
And I hope the linkedin people go to hell because now that email address is about useless.
Back when I was in high school my father was the chairman of the historical society in town and someone had at one time donated a pretty large moon rock to the museum.
We looked in to selling it because the interest of the money in the bank would pay all the museums bills indefinitely.
Turns out...
NASA is the only place that can verify the authenticity of a moon rock. They would not guarantee that they would give it back. A moon rock is a national treasure. A national treasure can not be owned so it can't be legally sold.
What's funny is I had no idea of the potential value of the small object we had in our house. The rock was almost the size of a small lemon.
Yeah it's crazy isn't it? The last time I tried to take my 40" television on the plane with me they made me stow it in the overhead compartment!
The bastards... so now I'm stuck watching movies with my PORTABLE device when I TRAVEL.
I've been waiting for HD content for YEARS. I remember thinking that NTSC was crap back in the early 90s and wishing for something better. I just thought it was disgusting that we had been relying on ancient technology for so long.
I finally broke down and picked up a decent TV and a ps3 earlier in the year and it's been like a breath of fresh air. The quality bottleneck in the bluray movies is finally the video source, not the format.
Check out the Dark Knight teaser on the Batman Begins bluray on a decent 1080p tv. It was literally jaw dropping for my friends and I. The thing is we should have been watching video like this 10 years ago.
I just don't understand it when people say DVD is "good enough". You can see the compression artifacts! (and that's on a low resolution display)
Oh and the DRM is annoying.... I suspect it will only be a matter of time before I'll be ripping the movies to watch on my portable devices just like I do with DVD. Just crack it and get on with your life.
It seems likely to me that the key is going to be tied to the 1.1.3 firmware and not the SDK in particular.
If the key is NOT on the phone side it has to be on the iTunes/PC side which is easy to crack.
If I were to design the security system to keep unauthorized applications off of the phone I'd put the final security check on the phone itself. This would prevent anyone from just making their own application for uploading software to the phone. If the key is phone side then this isn't possible.
If the key IS phone side and this is the correct key then the damage is already done. All that is needed is for hackers to figure out the intended method for uploading applications to the 1.1.3 firmware phones.
Apple wants to SELL the applications. If any coder can spend a weekend working up a decent solitaire game then that means they won't be able to charge $5 (or whatever) for their solitaire game on iTunes. The cell phone market has ALWAYS been about nickel and diming the customer to death. Charging for text messages?
The movement to provide on-demand services is NOT about improving life for the customer. It has ALWAYS been about improving revenue. Getting more for less.
and anyway...
I own a hacked iPhone with the 1.1.2 firmware with about 15 third-party applications on it. This thing is by far the most useful consumer electronics device I've ever owned (besides my pc of course). I don't have to upgrade to 1.1.3 and it is still useful to me. When it's cracked I'll upgrade.... but either way it's still a win/win for me.
This is CERTAINLY a virus sent by the North Korean government.
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The most impressive sky I have ever seen was right after a typhoon on the island of Guam.
I snuck out of my house when I was 16 and the island was still under a typhoon warning and nobody was outside.
The entire island and the neighboring island of Truk were both without power entirely and there was not a single cloud in the sky.
It truly was a spectacular sight and I do feel sad when I look up into the night here in the states.
You can't imagine what it's like until you've seen it for yourself. Really
The article doesn't claim that the attack uses the JTAG port. It claims that he used the JTAG port to find some sort of vulnerability. People do this ALL THE TIME.... I do it at work to reverse engineer automotive computers.
Now it does say that there is some peculiarity of these specific CPUs that makes them vulnerable to an attack of some sort. I hope the peculiarity isn't the presense of the JTAG port. If you assume people won't get your binary code off of a chip because it doesn't have a debug port then you're a fool.
They could probably stamp official licensed games on cdrom in a pinch using the backdoors that the pirates exploited long ago.
The downside to this is that the games would be damn easy to copy.
The military should be using Google Earth to find weak points in their bases so they can FIX THEM.
You think if google earth didn't exist people wouldn't get this information? Well when they do you're going to be fscked and unprepared... It's like a real world analog for security through obscurity.
Most people can afford to pay $14,000 a year for medication? Good thing this isn't life threatening... go cruise a few local fast food restaurants and see if you can find some people older than highschool age working there. (they exist). I guess they are just out of luck?
Maybe they could just import grey market meds from outside of the country.... that is unless customs siezes the packages. you know.. for their SAFETY.
A thousand bucks says this is never going to pass FDA testing in the United States... and we'll never find out why.
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People just need to use common courtesy when driving. If someone behind you wants to go faster than you then MOVE OVER. Even if you don't have an extra lane there is usually a shoulder.
If we all cooperate there is generally little reason for anyone to get angry or participate in road rage.
The Nissan 350Z that I'm working with right now allows me to read the steering wheel position, brake pedal pressure, and gas pedal position in realtime via the diagnostics port. In fact.. you can even purchase the software to do it yourself! *plug* *plug* :) http://www.uprev.com/products/cipher_z_g.html
;)
Converting this into controller input as a USB hid device or PS2 controller input would be trivial... in fact I'm tempted to go and try and get Gran Turismo running on it... I'll put a projector out in the garage
Would anyone actually use this if I provided some schematics/software?
FYI: I believe the car must be equipped with the VDC (Vehicle Dynamic Control)
in order to have a steering wheel position sensor that can be read from.
Think this might have to do with the fact that after the dot com crash computer science was no longer viewed as the way to ensure a profitable career?
I have met VERY FEW women who actually LIKE programming among the women professionals I've met.
I bet there are a bunch of people (like gamers) who would have no problems giving to a charity if they had some way of knowing it was legit. Helping people feels good, getting taken advantage of makes you hate the world.
I made a promise to somebody that I'd make a donation to a charity so I did a little research and found a place to send $50 to. I included a note asking them not to send anything back. (I didn't care about the stuffed animal or whatever they were offering) Well this was 3 years ago and I still get a constant stream of crap from these, and other people. I've got more personalized envelopes, address labels, calendars, notepads, etc. than I know what to do with. I'm sure it's well more that $50 to print and send this.
Anyway... they aren't getting any more money from me... it reeks too much of a seedy business. However, a charity run by a couple of people who don't do this for a living and are very open/public about how the money and donations get used? I'd have no problems giving them money.
I wonder if this partly explains some of the success of the program or if they just found the right people to "market" to.
Isn't it scary how skittish most people have become about big corporations? So careful not to do anything that might anger them for fear of a lawsuit. Was it always this way?
Only 80 games will turn a profit? I find this hard to believe. Maybe the title should be changed to "Only 80 licensed huge piles of crap will succeed"
In the last hour of television I saw two commercials for upcoming games. Some sort of Shrek allstars fighting game and a crash bandicoot racing game. Same old tired concepts with IP licenses attached.
Who's supporting this? Who's paying money for this? I'd like to know who to blame. Is it the stupid rednecks who support 'intelligent' design? The people who voted for Bush?
I used to actually like video games and it makes me very angry to see something that used to be fun ruined by greedy business types.
Low resolution is not the problem with video games these days.
These sound like the kind of questions an advertiser would ask in order to make more effective (intrusive) ads.
most people don't reverse engineer game consoles from scratch. 99% of the time they have inside info. They just don't announce it to try and cover themselves legally.