&#39;DVD Jon&#39; Cracks iPhone Activation
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Hacker Jon Lech Johansen, known widely as &quot;DVD Jon,&quot; has cracked Apple&#39;s iPhone activation, or so he claims, meaning that iPhone buyers will be able to activate and use the new handset without having to commit to an AT&T wireless contract. Johansen announced his feat in a blog post entitled &quot;iPhone Independence Day.&quot;
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(InfoWorld) - Hackers areÂ working to unlock Apple's iPhone, but the job appears to be more difficult than initially expected. Hackers had hoped that modifying the iPhone's bootloader -- the program that runs before the operating system is loaded -- would unlock the handset. But that turned out to be a dead end, as the bootloader code must be signed using a 1,024-bit RSA private key employed by Apple, according to an update released last week by hackers working together on the #iphone IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel. Now, the hackers on #iphone are working to create an assembler utility for the iPhone's processor. "This is our last major hurdle to overcome in order to write programs for the phone," they said last week. Once hackers have the ability to write programs for the iPhone, they can write one to unlock the handset, they said. The iPhone is locked for use with AT&T's EDGE network. Unlocking the iPhone will allow the handsets to be used with other operators, including carriers in Asia and Europe, where the phone is not yet available. Efforts to unlock the iPhone began almost as soon as the phone hit store shelves on June 29. Within days, hackers managed to circumvent the phone's activation function, allowing users to access many of the phone's features, except its cellular phone function. TheÂ first to release an iPhone activation toolÂ was Jon Lech Johansen -- better known as DVD Jon, a hacker who helped develop a tool for decrypting the content on DVDs -- who released a tool on July 3. Within 20 minutes of that release, a second activation tool was released by the hackers on #iphone. While hackers have yet to unlock the iPhone, they have made other breakthroughs since overcoming the activation hurdle. For instance, hackers last week released a tool that allows users to install custom ringtones on the iPhone.
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With Steve Jobs' recent announcement of his intention to fight off the independent iPhone developers, the question worth asking is: How will Apple try to defeat the hackers: Software updates, or lawsuits?
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A well-known hacker  claims to have overcome restrictions on Apple Inc.&#39;s iPhone,  allowing highly technical users to bypass AT&T Inc.&#39;s network  to use the phone&#39;s Internet and music features.
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More jailbreaks than a spaghetti western The latest version of the firmware for Apple's iPhone has fallen to hackers less than a week after its release.â¦
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Will it blend? We have some absolutely splendid news today for those among your who are heartily sick and tired of the bloody iPhone - those very silly people down at Blendtec have done the decent thing and stuck the infernal device in the blender:â¦
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Apple, as expected, has released another update for its iPhone, closing 10 security holes and leaving those who unlocked their iPhones wondering whether it will render their phones inoperable.
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Broken by brute force and swiped from shelves The activation method used by Microsoft to protect Vista from piracy is under attack on multiple fronts.â¦
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A start-up co-founded by famed  Norwegian hacker "DVD Jon" is on Tuesday introducing a service  that enables users to copy and use copy-protected Apple Inc  iTunes songs on many popular non-Apple devices.
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A London security analyst working with the open source group GNUCitizen has discovered a potentially serious exploit that could affect users of the Firefox browser and Apple's QuickTime movie and music player - especially iTunes customers - on Windows XP-based machines. BetaNews tested and verified the severity of the exploit.
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An iPhone owner has hacked his device so that it can record video.
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Looks like I'll get the drive back soon. First I got a call from the Emeryville store, then I got a call from a person in Apple Executive offices (she gave me her name and number, but I'm not going to publish it here). I'll report back when I have more info. PS: The number of idiotic comments has gone way up.
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Blog: Group claims it can unbind the iPhone from a specific carrier to "expand the functionality" of the device.
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CHAMONIX, France  - A start-up co-founded by famed  Norwegian hacker "DVD Jon" is on Tuesday introducing a service  that enables users to copy and use copy-protected Apple  Inc iTunes songs on many popular non-Apple devices.
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When it ships next week, Apple's iPhone will be loaded with 10,000 YouTube videos. YouTube will recode the rest of its videos into the H.264 format used by the iPhone by fall.
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Unlocked and loaded Efforts to open up the functionality of Apple's iPhone to users disinclined to sign up to expensive two year contracts with AT&amp;T are growing.â¦
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Blog: With all of the hoopla surrounding the iPhone, we have all forgotten about the most important development of today's release: a new way to activate a cell phone.