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The video talks about a couple of people who’s lives are ruled by harrasing calls and threats. They claim that their phones are tapped with special software.

Rick Mislan talks about the software and how easy it is to be placed on mobile phones.

Software such as:

Link to Video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyKcoDaofg


An in-depth look at the new Palm Pre Mobile Phone:

@ Engadget.com

I love how fast it is and how they allow you to have “pages’ of applications running at once… Look at the videos to see what I mean. What I hate is the numbers on the keyboard are Orange just like punctuation marks on the T-Mobile G1… I can’t see them at all! But that’s just me…

Related:

Plam stocks are up.
Google Finance on Palm, Inc.

Official Website.

Is it going to be the iPhone killer? or will it suck like the Google Android did before it? Give it six months and we’ll see :P



Watch in on Fora.tv to see the whole transcript as in the Pouge video in the previous post.


The video is Long (32 Minutes!).
- It starts with a parody song (as usual!).
- 3:35 Trends for 2009
- 4:30 VoIP cell phones
- 6:40 VoIP on Mobile Phones with T-Mobile (By the way BT has it too!)
- 10:40 Grand Central: A service that rings all your phone numbers at once at the same time on a single number! Watch the demo :)
- 12:50 Google Cellular: Free SMS and Voice initiated 411 directory enquiry service
- 16:25 1800 Cha Cha: Ask any question by voice and get answer by text
- 18:00 Voice Messagase by email or SMS services e.g. spinvox, PhoneTag and CallWave
- 21:00 More on Callwave and a feature demo
- 22:35 Popularity Dialer .com
- 23:50 iPhone beginings. How iPhone changed US carriers
- 25:00 iPhone with internet all the time
- 26:30 iPhone shuffle and App Store apps demos like: Midomi, Pandora, Urban Spoon
- 28:30 T-Mobile G1 and Verizon
- 29:30 End with a Song: The iPhone Song

ModEdiPhone.com

Modding Education for iPhone users AKA ModEdiPhone.com is a new website for all iPhone users who would like to jailbreak their iPhones or SIM unlock them whether they are using a first generation iPhone or the 3G iPhone. It provides guides and step-by-step videos and advice on how to do each hack or mod without any complications. It includes software, firmware, and hardware mods and hacks. It also contains the last five posts from the most popular iPhone blogs and news sites. It is a must visit and subscribe-to website so make sure you add it to your favourites :)

Here is the link:
http://www.modediphone.com/

Attached with and armband, it is a portable and multi-purpose tool:

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/12/the_us_armys_secret_weapon_the_ipod_touch-2.html

Cellphone Gun:

Pen Gun:

Yes you can :) Watch this:

Get your gadgets coated with this micro polymer here:
http://www.golden-shellback.com/

for more information go here:
http://www.electronics-au.com.au/blog/computers/apple-iphone-underwater/

A man in the United States used his mobile phone and the social networking service Twitter to inform the world even as he was trying to escape a burning 737. Read or hear more from the ABC:

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2008/s2453641.htm

I have previously heard of a case where a man used the twitter service to let people know he was arrested by Egyption authorities:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/25/twitter.buck/index.html

Both stories might be looked at as extreme uses of the twitter service or other micro-blogging and social services. As mobile phones become more location-aware, social networking services such as twitter are tapping into this capability of mobile phones making them even more usable in distress situations or even to report crime. Coupled with cameras, these services in addition to location-aware devices can become effective crime fighting tools.

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As predicted, it did take a long time to unlock the 3G version of the iPhone as compared to the 1st generation iPhone. It is never the less a great achievement for the Dev-Team. So, if you are still using a SIM proxy to unlock you iPhone 3G, then this unlock is for you. For all others, this makes no difference at all :P

For those who do require the SIM unlock I give you this warning: never upgrade you phone to 2.2 as it will unpgrade your modem software making it impossible to unlock with the SIM unlocking solution from the dev-team.
So: NEVER UPGRADE OR RESTORE YOUR IPHONE IN ITUNES

For more information, please visit the dev-team’s website at:
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

gadgettrack

GadgetTrack software was used to track and arrest a thief in Anchorage, Alaska. For more details visit the site below:

http://www.usbhacks.com/2008/11/24/mobile-phone-thief-captured-with-tracking-software/

Google Phone

You can customize the color of your T-Mobile G1, the Google Android based phone at Colorware Custom. This is the design I did with custom Metallic Paints for all colors except for the yellow which is a solid color called “Caution”:
http://www.colorwarepc.com/p-170-tmobile-g1.aspx?2081=candy_apple&2082=alpine&2083=caution&2084=midnight

BTW, the phones are unlocked which means that they can be used with any carrier and not only T-Mobile.

PocketCinema


Visit the company’s Official website.

Review here.

iPhone Your Life

As the name suggests, this site is for all the things iPhone can do for you.

Visit it here.



I love David Pogue… He gave us the iPhone Music Video when the iPhone first came out ;) See it again here:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=vniMR6Ez9cE


Just watch :)


The people behind modmyi.com have an Android Forum but it doesn’t seem to have as much interest as the iPhone:
http://www.modmygphone.com/forums/index.php
I won’t judge the Android Platform yet though, I’ll give it six months :P

The LayerOne 2008 talk by David Hulton titled: Intercepting Mobile Phone/GSM


Visit the GSM Hakcing WIKI at:
http://wiki.thc.org/gsm
The USRP is available at: http://www.ettus.com
Learn more about the GNU RADIO project at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio

David is the Chairman of Toorcon

street view

According to the article below, iPhone 2.2 beta which was provided to developers contained an Android-like Street View capability within the Google Maps App.

I Don’t know about you, but to me, it seemed like the street view feature was one of the most attractive features that Google used in selling the Android platform to consumers. I personally see a great potential in Android for app development but I still think that the iPhone will keep on keeping on especially after the dropped the NDA requirement for app developers :P

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007891.html

These are some of the prototype Mobile Phones on show.

3D Navigation and Situational Awareness in a Mobile Phone:





Separatable mobile phone:





Projector Mobile Phone:




The features include: live rss feeds, live TV streaming channels, TV guide while watching TV, credit card and transport card functions on the phone, biometric fingerprint reader, 3+Mbps speed 3g data speeds… etc.





It has street view :)

CSI Stick

The CSI Stick is a portable USB stick kind of device that can be connected to a mobile phone to conduct a copy of some sort of memory from the mobile phone device without the need for a computer to be connected to the mobile phone. The type of data collected form the mobile phone can be chosen through a slider switch. The device currently supports certain Motorola and Samsung phone models with more manufacturer support coming soon. The data collected by the device can then be interpreted via the use of Paraben’s Device Seizure or DS Lite. The cost is $199 USD.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.physorg.com/news139460365.html
and
http://computing.in.msn.com/safe/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1658902
or the device’s official website:
http://csistick.com/

PwnageTool 2.0 MACOSX version is released.
For more details, please visit:

rlslog.net
also see:

dev team blog

UPDATE: Don’t have a Mac? You can do it in Windows as well. For instractions, go here:

Step-by-Step Guide to Pwn first generation iPhone running firmware 2.0 using Windows

In a previous post http://www.mysecured.com/?p=202 I showed that your data is not wiped when you do a normal restore. So in this post I will show you some of the ways you can wipe your phone with some degree of certainty that the information on it is wiped.


If you want to wipe your iPhone before you sell it on eBay or give it back to Apple because the touch screen stopped working all of a sudden! Then here are the different ways you can wipe it:

- Jonathan Zdziarski’s method:
http://www.zdziarski.com/papers/wipe.html

It involves jailbreaking and command line access. It is best suited for people with jailbroken iPhones and are really paranoid and control freaks!

- Rich Mogull’s (securosis.com) method:
http://securosis.com/2008/05/20/formatting-an-iphone-to-wipe-data/Which is an easy to do 2 restores and 3 overwrites of the iPhone device’s user data area. Look at this video from CNET on youtube:

- BigBoss Wipe App Method:
http://sleepers.net/news/?p=174
This needs the iPhone to be jailbroken as well. It does a zero out wipe on the device, so it will require a restore afterwards.

The basic idea of all of the methods is to overwrite the data in the user area. Be it by overwriting it with music as in Mogull’s method or by using a wipe tool as with BigBoss or by overwriting it with zeros as in Jonathan’s method. I prefer the latter two methods as overwriting with music might leave some of the data intact (call me paranoid!). But on the other hand it could be the only option for people who do not want to jailbreak their iPhone or do not have the technical expertise to do so.


UPDATE (28 August 2008):

iPhone software 2.0 and above comes with an erase all feature that was not available in previous versions of the iPhone and therefore this feature can be used to completely wipe the iPhone. This can be done on the iPhone itself without needing to connect it to iTunes.

So, on the iPhone tap Settings -> General -> Reset and then select the “Erase All Content and Settings” option from the buttons shown. Users must note that under the 1.x iPhone software, invoking this setting erased the iPhone’s obvious data, but not did NOT PERFORM A ‘bit-by-bit’ WIPE. Under the 2.0 software however, you get a much more thorough wipe (bit-by-bit). which can take an hour or two to complete depending on the storage size of the iPhone being wiped.


Here is a link to a Video demo shown on CNET News.com. It shows the potential of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications like Basecamp or Salesforce.com on the iPhone. This could boost the sales of the iPhone and at the same time provide another dimention to information accessable to the iPhone mobile device.

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Get them here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/60232/2007/10/nov07mobilemac.html?t=213

Thanks to Macworld magazine :)

Now you can unlock new iphones that are OTB 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 (bootloader version 4.6) with just software and no need for special microchips that go behind your SIM card. Here is a link to the guide:

http://iphone.unlock.no/OTB112unlock.htm

 To see it in action, check out this youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SXnAUa6f0s

Gear Live has a cool gallery of pictures of the new additions to the iPhone interface in its 1.1.3 release. The most impressive feature for me was the locate-me feature for the google maps application. Other features include dragging and dropping icons on the springboard and bookmarks icon on the springboard. Another much-needed feature is the multiple-people SMS capability.

To see some screen shots of the changes please follow the link below:

http://www.gearlive.com/gallery/category/C51/

 

An Arabic keyboard has been developed for the iPhone. Now you can write Arabic SMS messages on you iphone :)

For more information and to update you iphone to support arabic typing please visit:
http://www.iphoneislam.com/?p=20

Also, make sure to bookmark their site for the latest islamic and Arabic related links and stories about the iPhone:

http://www.iphoneislam.com/

All you have to do is place a font file in the direcotry:

system/library/fonts/cache

It can be downloaded from here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/70430782/arialuni.ttf.html

And your safari browser will be able to ready arabic in the correct direction this time! As shown below :)

Credit for this one goes to Mishary.

Thanks :)

 

 

For more information go to:

http://www.threeskypephone.com.au/

Boise State University is working on research to power a D-size battery by walking motion. Here are the details:

http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9818487-54.html?tag=nefd.top

 

Finally, someone did something for the iPhone and the iPod touch that enables users to get full disk level access with read/write prevliges on the iPhone’s disk via AFP.  The AppleTalk Filing Protocol makes the iPhone show up on the Mac desktop as a disk with full read/write access. For more from the “Core” click the link:

http://wickedpsyched.net/iphone/afp/

This is a stand-alone hard disk wiper! No computer needed. Wiebetech’s pocket-sized eRazer erases at a rate of 35MB/s, effectively wiping a 250GB hard drive in under two hours. The eRazer meets the DoD erasing standerds and sells in two versions one for $99 and the Pro which supports SATA and Multi-pass sells for $150… Cheap!

http://www.gizmodo.com.au

 

Also called “An Open Handset Alliance Project”. Here are some screen shots and a video preview of it from Gizmodo:

gizmodo

and video Preview:

gizmodo

The SDK can be downloaded from here:

http://code.google.com/android/download.html

The following new features are available for all enterprise and individual customers:

  • Performance on flash drives is improved.
  • MojoPac can be used on a host with limited mode login with MojoPac Usher (Beta) installed on the host.
  • MojoPac can be installed to a directory on the host computer.
  • For our Enterprise customers, MojoPac 1.8 has many enhanced management, provisioning and deployment capabilities.
  • Active Directory authentication is now available.
  • Image creation and deployment have been made easier.
  • New configuration options are available to enforce data protection and security policies.
  • MojoPac can perform a security check on host computers.  

If you are an IT administrator, please contact sales-at-ringcube dot com for updated documentation and management tools.

If you have automatic updates enabled, your MojoPac will update in the next few days.

If you are not using MojoPac, please download it. MojoPac Freedom is *free* for non-commercial personal use.

For more information and to download Mojopac, please visit them at:

http://www.mojopac.com/portal/content/splash.jsp

It is like a SecureID token but for your Mobile Phone. It is based on Java and provides 1024bit RSA encryption and GrIDsure’s ID technology. Want to learn more, then head to:

http://www.itsecurityportal.com/itsecurity_news.asp?articleid=260033

I have to admit, I thought this is like CommonWealth Bank’s NetCode SMS but it is clearly nothing like it. For more information on that go to:

http://demos.webcentral.com.au/netcode-sms.html

It is finally here :) Now you can safely update your 1.0.2 to the new 1.1.1 and have it work like a charm :) Make sure you know what you’re doing though :P

Here are the detailed instructions:

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/29/instant-jailbreak-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/

Remember, if you brick your iPhone, don’t blame us!

برنامج لقراءة الرسائل العربية على الـ آيفون

For more information please visit:
http://mem9.net/iphone/

Thanks also for the following people who contibuted to bringing us one step closer to an Arabic iPhone :)

EricaNawaf, Knox and Rayan.

 

If you have a USB Flash Disk (thumb drive ) then this software is a must have. It transforms your USB drive into a full featured Windows XP PC! A PC you can take with you anywhere you can take the flash disk to. Best of all, now it is available for free! Get it now!

http://www.mojopac.com

Now if someone can write a forensics paper on this :P

Metasploit for hacking iPhones:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137741-c,iphone/article.html

Apple releases an update to Patch 10 flaws with the iPhone: 

 http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9786507-7.html?tag=nefd.blgs

The patch also Bricks unlocked iPhones

 

Read about it at Engadget then follow the easy instructions here: http://iphone.unlock.no/

Easy!

http://www.iphonealley.com/news/anysim-released-free-gui-iphone-unlock

 

 

Here are two guides to SIM unlock your iPhone for free:

http://www.freeiphoneunlock.com/guide/

http://iphone.unlock.no/

This time it is by the iPhone Dev team :) iPhone is finally free from its AT&T ball and chain!

For more information and to download the needed files, head to Gizmodo. Instructions are not out yet. So, if you are one of those people that never RTFM, then download it and wing it!

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/exclusive/iphone-free-software-unlock-confirmed-death-star-explodes-298825.php 

Thanks again for EVERYONE on the Hackint0sh forums for all their efforts and all the good times we had with the iPhone ;)

Otherwise, (if you’ve got money to burn) then go for the commercial unlock software found here:

http://www.iphonesimfree.com/cgi-bin/iphonesimfree/engine.pl?page=buy

Got questions? We got answers! Don’t be hatin’ start participatin’! Head to Hackint0sh.org!

 

Image above is from: http://blog.scifi.com/

There are so many iPhone clones that some online shops have a special category for them! Check out IPMart for example:
http://www.ipmart.com/main/browse.php?cat=1758&cat=2308

The De Say M888 shown below is the most impressive of them all but at USD 251.25 plus shipping fees won’t you rather buy an original 4GB iPhone at 299 USD including shipping?

 

Yes, I know what you are about to say: “Not another watchphone!” Yes you guessed it! It is from CECT in china. You can buy it online from IPMart, eBay and AliBaba.

According to WIRED Magazine:

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/news/2007/08/iphone_forensics

 It quotes an expert from Paraben and Blackbag saying that it is a challange.

http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/  

After the Super SIM and Turbo SIM methods, we have a hardware unlock method. Follow the links below for more details:

I would not try this at home… Super Sim simply works and it is CHEAP! Why bother with anything else, it is simply not worth the time or effort. Not to mention the risk of damaging the phone!

 Whould you attempt this on your phone?

It is STILL NOT a software hack! This one revolves around something called TurboSIM. It supports all kinds of SIMs not just V1 SIMs. For more information go to:

http://www.iphonestalk.com/iphone-unlocked-for-all-use-any-sim-card-in-your-iphone/

and here is how to do it:

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2619

or

http://www.jasonmadigan.com/2007/08/13/turbo-sim-iphone-unlock-confirmed-working/

Enjoy :) and this time, no need for SIM card programmer devices or Silvercards!

At least this is a SIM fabrication hack that works. For instructions, please follow one of the links below:

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2215

or

http://www.myitablet.com/iphone-unlocked-for-european-use-061341.php

Enjoy your new unlocked iPhone :) Now, if only they can come up with the software hack before the 45 day deadline :P

Update: Rumor has it that the unlocked iPhones are already being sold in Hong Kong!

http://www.gearfuse.com/hong-kong-is-selling-fully-unlocked-iphones-now/

Well, so far we have three choices. They are:

  • Cect Mobile Wrest watch: A Chinese prototype announce by CECT

Picture from mobilemag.com

Here are the details on How to do it (according to the hacker) :

1. Get the required hardware and softwares: (these are the ones I have used): An Infinity USB unlimited SIM reader/writer, a silvercard, SIM-EMU 6.01, and WoronScan 1.09
2. Get the IMSI, Ki of your carrier using WoronScan (I will call them IMSI-b, Ki-b)
3. Use SIM-EMU and create 2 files (1 Flash and 1 EEPROM) using the ICCID of the AT&T sim (ICCID-a), IMSI-b and Ki-b
4. Then use these 2 files to create a sim using the infinity usb unlimited reader/writer
5. Put this sim into a normal unlocked phone and make some calls/receive calls/data services
6. Then use SIM-EMU to change the IMSI of the original Flash file to IMSI of AT&T sim (IMSI-a)
7. Again write the silvercard with the new flash and eeprom files
8. Put this sim into the iphone
9. Activate using the Cingular method as descirbe in Hacktheiphone.com

This is not a true unlock. It is a hack that enables you to make calls with the iphone but does not enable you to recieve calls or use Telstra’s network to browse the Internet. At least not yet ;)

Links:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/phones–pdas/iphone-hacked-for-australia/2007/07/30/1185647803146.html

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41343

http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/014782.html

I’ve been searching for iPhone unlocking sites and so far I found the sites below. I would like to emphasize that it is only a matter of time until a workaround can be found to use the iPhone with other providers other than AT&T. So, here are the two sites:

  • The following blog post claims that it will send you an email with information about unlocking the iPhone once it is available for a small fee:
  • The following company mentioned in this “the register” article claims that it is close to unlocking the iPhone and that once it is able to do that, it will provide iPhone users with a $50 software that will unlock their phones for them:

It is also worth noting that unlocking phones was ruled to be legal by the US copyright office last year.

Here are two of them:

Duke University’s Wi-Fi network has a problem — the iPhone. Built-in Internet wireless adapters on AAPLthe new iPhone are crashing Wi-Fi access points by sending 18,000 data requests per second. Although other “smart phones” have similar capabilities, only the iPhone has shown to be able to overwhelm the campus’ network. Neither Duke, Cisco nor Apple know why it’s happening, but the school said if it occurs in the fall when students return, it would be a disaster. Source: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/IBD-0001-18205063.htm

The second problem is:

The iPhone’s web dialer is vaulnrable to exploits! to find out more, go to: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32936/108/

For an interesting look at the cellphones of the future, watch this short video from cnet:

http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-27879.html

I know many people will look at this and go “We’ve seen this before… Cellular phone spying is not new” but I have to say that the technology is now more readily available than before. To understand what I am talking about, please read the following from zone labs:

Also, visit this site:

Beware of cellphones left in your office, on your table at a coffee shop and in meetings. The FBI has been doing cell phone spying apparently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O61YfvPZGJs

Read what Prof. Rick Mislan said about the use of Phone Flasher Technologies and their role in the acquisition stage of mobile phone forensics and their use by students in digital forensics courses at Purdue University in the US.

http://www.physorg.com/news95611284.html

A dual phone with GSM and VOIP and running Windows Mobile Smartphone Edition. Sounds like it is going to run Windows Mobile 6 by the time it’s going to be released. Find out more on:
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/03/28/zyxel-launches-the-v660-smartphone/

Ever wanted to show your mobile screen on a computer screen or a projector? You can now with Project-A-Phone! A picture is worth a thousand words.

http://www.projectaphone.com/index.htm

CellDEK™ is a portable handset data extraction kit designed for use at the scene of a crime and all working environments associated with on-going investigations. The kit is fully integrated within a ruggedised briefcase. It has approximately 10 hours of battery life and can be recharged through a vehicle, or mains electrical source. The website for the product is here:
http://www.celldek.com 

More information is also available through logicube:
http://www.logicubeforensics.com/products/hd_duplication/celldek.asp

It is privided in the UK by the Forensic Science Service® (FSS) a provider of forensic supplies to police forces in England and Wales. The FSS is also a source of training, consultancy and scientific support. FSS can be reached here:
http://www.forensic.gov.uk/

The agent files are installed in the root of a USB mass storage devices, such as a USB flash drives, digital cameras and iPods.  The agent prompts the user to “install USB Device Driver” which is social engineering the thief into running the agent’s IP tracking and sending code! For more details visit their how it works section on:

http://www.gadgettheft.com

Yet another clever use of The pop-up window of USB devices. Best of all, the basic service is currently free :)

 

Read more about it in Engadget Mobile:
Link

Bit Torrent technology together with IPTV results in P2PTV .  It is basically Bit Torrent based TV streams.  Applications include but are not limited to:

Take into consideration that not all applications can be free, some might have two versions, a free version and a paid one. 

Fun Fact: During the 2006 Football World Cup, thousands of people watched it on their PC rather than their TV. Sites like: http://www.project2046.com/ provided people with match details and where to watch them on a PC.

Other Links:
My post on TVU Player on marwan.com:
http://www.marwan.com/2006/06/tvu-player.php
P2P TV Guide:
http://www.p2ptvguide.co.nr/

In this case the profit is in knowledge! So what is place shifting television?

It basically means that you connect the output from your TV into a media streamer that puts it on the Internet. Then you can watch your TV channels from virtually anywhere that has Internet access.  You can Even change the channel. Slingbox is a prime example of that: Watch the Interactive Video for a demonstration.

Zazz is the Australian version of Woot!… It sells one item per day. I bought some stuff from them like the USB-on-the-go device called the Copy Box for under AU$20 including shipping!  We played around with it at SCISSA and we found that it works with copying fat16 folders and disks but it failed to copy files and drives when it comes to Linux partitions. We also found out that it puts files that are copied into a folder named “Copy001″ on the destination drive. So, we created folders on the destination drive from 001 to 255 and the device just hanged!

Link:
http://www.zazz.com.au/

A site called “Mobile Gadget News” has pretty nice articles, notable ones include:

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