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A move by legislators in the US state of Maine to require brain-cancer warnings on mobile phones is expected to trigger a worldwide response, the Australian industry has said.

A Democrat state representative, Andrea Boland, wants new mobile phones to carry health warnings like those on cigarettes and is pushing ahead with the legislation despite a lack of scientific consensus.

Read more here:
http://www.watoday.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/push-for-cigarettelike-warnings-on-mobiles-20100104-lnvo.html

A presentation and paper on Reverse engineering JTAG at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress is now available to download here:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/track/Hacking/3670.en.html

Other Hacking and reverse engineering papers and talks from the conference can be found here:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/index.en.html

The hacking track is here:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/track/Hacking/index.en.html

More on the story here:

http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/i_team_8/Sexting_20091112

This report concerns the theoretical and practical issues with automatically populating mobile devices with reference test data for use as reference materials in validation of forensic tools.

It describes an application and data set developed to populate identity modules and highlights subtleties involved in the process. Intriguing results attained by recent versions of commonly-used forensic tools when used to recover the populated data are also discussed. The results indicate that reference materials can be used to identify a variety of inaccuracies that exist in present-day forensic tools.

The Paper can be downloaded in PDF format from here:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistir/ir7617/nistir-7617.pdf

More on the paper here:
http://www.testandmeasurement.com/article.mvc/NIST-Develops-Experimental-Validation-Tool-0001?VNETCOOKIE=NO

The tool itself can be downloaded from here:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/mobile_security/mobile_forensics_software.html

According to a survey by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, about 75% of Australians are either “very satisfied” or “somewhat satisfied” with their telecommunications services. I was surprised to see that there wasn’t a massive difference between metropolitan and rural areas, despite rural areas having a much less options and less bandwidth as metro areas. Those users who weren’t happy largely focused on price, customer service and poor mobile reception.

Read more here:
http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_311777

Hackers claim to have stolen all T-Mobile US’s corporate data, customer accounts and network infrastructure. More information from the Register can be found below:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/08/tmobile_us_loss/

Three individuals who allegedly hacked into telephone systems in the United States and abroad and sold information about the compromised telephone systems to Pakistani nationals residing in Italy. Italian law enforcement arrested the financiers of the hacking activity. Those financiers allegedly used the information to transmit over 12 million minutes of telephone calls valued at more than $55 million over the hacked networks of victim corporations in the United States alone. Read more below:
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=7645

Medialets created the world’s first shakable advertisement for Dockers, together with agencies OMD and Razorfish. Users shake their iPhone to make the Dockers guy dance. This ad utilizes the iPhone’s accelerometer as well as audio capabilities and appears in targeted, free iPhone applications.

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090512/7278/?mod=ATD_rss

A research team from Ben Gurion University in Beer-Sheba, Israel, found that talking on a cellular phone harms the mental abilities of the user.

The influence of cellular phones on brain functions and general health has been widely researched in recent years. Most of the experiments try to understand whether electromagnetic radiation is cancerous or not. Researchers from Ben Gurion University and Soreq Research Center for Nuclear Energy have decided to take a closer look at the effect mobile phones have on people’s cognitive functions.

Read more here:
http://thefutureofthings.com/pod/7033/cell-phone-usage-damages-memory.html

A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. The toolkit could allow law enforcement agencies to scour the inbuilt hard disk of such devices and find illicit hidden materials easily.

Link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430101445.htm

You might know some of them but most of them are just an inside code and some can raise red flags.

Here are some of them:
D46 - “Do you want to have sex?”
LG6 - “Let’s have sex”
GNOC - “Get naked on camera”
TDTM - “Talk dirty to me”
LMIRL - “Let’s meet in real life”

See the link below wich includes a video:

http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=10310438

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:

• http://www.mobile-spy.com/
• http://www.world-tracker.com/
• http://www.flexispy.com/
• http://www.e-stealth.com/
• http://www.fonefunshop.co.uk/spyphone/
• http://www.thespyphone.com/allinone.html

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

It looks and functions like a Blackberry 8830 but it sure is NOT a regular Blackberry. It is locked down by NSA. I am not really sure if it is a good idea at all. NSA is installing the SecurVoice software on it for both voice and messaging as one of the ways to secure the phone. I am sure that there is a whole infrastructure that is required to run his handset services. Even considering all that, I Still believe that a mobile-phone-carrying president opens so many doors for hackers.

Can NSA and Obama get away with using a (persumably) secure mobile phone service and handset? That is the question of the day!

Read more here:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/04/obama-to-get-ba.html

It is persumed that the phones can be modified and used in receiving SMS verification codes sent from banks:

criminals have already collected thousands of login details for online bank accounts in countries such as Germany and Holland where banks send a transaction authentication number (TAN) code by SMS to a person’s mobile phone in order to complete transactions.

Read the original post byUltraScan here:
http://www.ultrascan.nl/html/press_room.html#25.000%20Euro%20for%20your%208%20years%20old%20Nokia%201100

Read more about it here:
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/553344-hackers-pay-top-dollar-for-old-nokia-1100-handsets

and here:
http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/?p=2922

Many gay and lesbian books on Amazon.com were incorrectly being flagged as adult due to a cataloging error which made the books hard to find in searches.

Twitters got angry about the issue and started a discussion called #AmazonFail. Thousands of people were angry that gay-themed books had disappeared from Amazon’s sales rankings and search algorithms. The number of Tweets on that easter sunday afternoon that had the term “AmazonFail” surpassed even those with the words “Easter” or “Jesus.”

This led Amazon.com to quickly fix the cataloging error.

Read more here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/technology/internet/14amazon.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes

http://blog.seattlepi.com/amazon/archives/166384.asp?from=blog_last3

Read the discussion here:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23AmazonFail

Poken is a hardware device that connects the web 2.0 social networking virtual world to your real world contacts and people you meet in conferences, coffee shops and elsewhere.

How does it work and when was it released?
It was released in March as far as I could tell. Here is how it works

Here are more links on it:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5987575.ece

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/mar/17/sxswi-startups1

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/dan_monsieurle/blog/2009/03/30/who_am_i__a_panda_or_a_chimp

If you want to buy a poken, then use the following coupon code for a 10% discount:
PUTUPYPAJFAZTSD3PEHM

Watch the 46 minute long Google TechTalk about Poken here:
http://www.pokenpokes.com/2009/03/08/poken-extending-online-social-networking-into-the-real-world/

The hardware details are here:
http://ameblo.jp/hfo/entry-10224130228.html

and here:
http://ameblo.jp/hfo/theme-10011686327.html

A blog about pokens:
http://www.pokenpokes.com/

Blog post about the release in Japan:
http://nthambazale.com/2009/03/tokyo-cgm-night-episode-poken-launched-in-japan/

Let me know if you have any questions about Pokens

A man accused of raping a university student was cleared because of the mobile phone footage showing the woman ‘actively’ having sex with him. The jurors voted to acquit the man, who’d been charged with four counts of rape, including two of rape by oral penetration.

Read more here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1166466/Man-cleared-rape-court-shown-phone-footage-woman-actively-taking-sex.html

It might not be because they are secure, but simply because the ROI is just a mere phone handset! Add to that the device, OS, and carrier variations.

Read more here:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/25/1238246&from=rss
and here:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Mobile+and+Wireless&articleId=9130346&taxonomyId=15&pageNumber=1

Chris Ogle (29) from Whangerei, New Zealand has stumbled across the sensitive military details of U.S. military personnel after purchasing a secondhand MP3 player in Oklahoma, USA. He discovered around 60 sensitive military files dating from 2005 on the used music player. The files were clearly marked as ’secret’ and contained the phone numbers of numerous soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.

For more on the story visit:

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200905/2852/Man-finds-U-S-military-secrets-on-secondhand-MP3-player

Growth projection for the mobile sector does not look good

Read More Here:

http://www.iphonestalk.com/new-survey-results-bring-good-and-bad-news-for-the-mobile-sector/

An interesting article about pedophilia and ’sexting’ in the mobile age. Sexting means sending nude or semi-nude pictures of oneself on mobile phones to others. Two cases are discussed in the article.

READ IT HERE.

In my opinion, lawmakers should consider the changes in technology and evolve the laws to deal with the new issues emerging from the proliferation of cell phones in our societies and changes to the ways mobile phones are used.

A guy at the US Airways crash took a picture of the Airplane and used Twitter to stream it to the Internet. Here is his account of the incident:

http://twitpic.com/135xa - There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy. 12:36 PM Jan 15th from TwitPic

http://twitter.com/jkrums/status/1121915133

Robert Scoble aka Mr. Twitter talk to Larry Magid at CES. Robert has 48,000 people who follow him (read his Twitter posts which are called “tweets”) but he follows nearly 21,000 people. How he does that? Tweetdecks is one way! They also talk about the Palm Pre Surprise. Listen to the whole podcast here:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10141183-238.html

This is starting to be like citizen reporting via tweets again. This time it has help from tweet decks. Can this be the beggining of a new way for us to get news from the inside of conflicts, disaster areas and maybe even anonymous news tips? Rumors?

A new site dedicated to the Palm Pre Mobile Phone and its WebOS operating system and Application Catalog. Visit it at:
http://www.PreMobilePhone.com

I don’t know if this is true or not yet but here it goes! There seems to be a vulnerability that affects Nokia Series 60 phones, including N95 and N73 handsets that blocks all SMS and MMS from reaching the phone, hense the name “Curse of Silence”. attacker in this case sends a specially designed SMS message to the target phone. What’s worrying is that the recipient will receive no indication that they got the message.

The only way to get the target phone to recieve messages again is to factory reset it. Even after the factory recet, the phone still remains vulnerable to future silent curses. The attack will only work on phones running version 2.6, 2.8, 3.0 or 3.1 of Symbian S60.

Source: http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/?p=2505

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

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.

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

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/

If you were waiting for the Arabic to be ready for the 2.2 version of the iPhone then your wait is over it is now ready from iPhone Islam

Just go here for the guide to upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 and then read more information about the new upgrade here.

PLEASE NOTE: If you use a SIM card proxy (a small SIM-shaped electoronic circuit that goes behind your SIM card) then NEVER upgrade your phone to 2.2! You will not be able to use your phone if you upgrade.

On October 6th AccessData sent a letter to Guidance Software expressing its interest to acquire all of the outstanding stock of Guidance Software at $4.50 a Share. Read more below:

http://www.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=569441

http://www.Securify.Me

We have secured the domain name Securify.Me and we are in the process of forwarding it to MySecured.com. MySecured.com has been getting positive feedback from visitors and the financial gain from Google Ads is great. So, we are investing the money form the advertisements into buying cool domain names! Our overhead for the website is very low, so getting traffic through clever web domains has served us well so far

If the domain name sounds familiar, it is because of two parts of the domain:

- Securify: Packet Storm Security’s domain name used to be http://packetstorm.securify.com . Takes you back ages ago doesn’t it!
In fact, this is how it used to look like from 1999-2001:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://packetstorm.securify.com

Thanks to the Way Back Machine

- Me: It is the new Top Level domain name. It is also a previous version of Windows: Windows Me. More recently, Apple Computers used it for the replacement of the .MAC Cloud Computing service. It is now known as MobileMe or Mobile Me.

Keep visiting the websites and keep those suggestions coming Visit our sponsors while you are at it… it is what keeps us going after all….

contribute (at) My Secured DOt Com!

BTW: If you are interested in ANY of our domains, let us know… We might just sell it to you for the right price

Call it “on-demand computing”, “grid computing” or “software as a service”, cloud computing is the wave of the future whether people like it or not. When it comes to smartphones both iPhone and the Android platform are betting their success on cloud computing. Apple’s MobileMe and Google through its Google Apps on G1 did not get a great start but they are improving their acts with fixes and updates. Microsoft announced lately that they are getting into the cloud computing arena with cloud based servers that target both smartphones and sub-laptop devices called “netbooks”. There are too many news articles to list here to support this post and new articles on the subject seem to pop up every singe hour of the day. So, I am going to leave all the searching for cloud computing articles to you! Here is a google search for smartphone and “cloud computing” to get you started:

- Google Web Search

- Google News Search

- Google Blog Search

Intersting article involving a child porn case:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081029-court-rules-hash-analysis-is-a-fourth-amendment-search.html

People living in Australia can get their hands on a T-Mobile G1 via eBay.com. They will be able to use the 3G HSDPA fuctionality on Carriers other than Telstra though. For 3G connectivity, the G1 will work only if the carrier’s network uses the 2100MHz frequency band. Currently those carriers include Vodafone, Optus and Three. Telstra’s Next G network runs on the 850MHz frequency so it’s not supported.

For more information, read on:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/google-phone-hits-australia-via-ebay/2008/10/29/1224956120782.html

Get more information about this application and much more on Android’s Developer blog.

Also, visit Google Code Pages for Android.

Google Marketplace is where developers can easily publish and distribute their applications directly to users of Android-compatible phones including the T-Mobile G1.

In an article in The Register, Google defends limiting accress to Non-Marketplace applications to the following:

At this point, we think it is too dangerous to give a third party application blanket access to install applications without the user being involved. That may change in the future, but for now that is the way it is.

Read more about it in the article.

As you might know, the iPhone 3G comes either on a contract which means that it is locked to the provider or Unlocked via iTunes on pre-paid plans or through a special arrangement with the service provider for a small fee. Locked phones however can be unlocked via hardware SIM attacments such as TurboSIM (discussed in detail in my paper) or other cheaper alternatives such as Universial SIM. What you might not know is that some sellers sell iPhones as if they are officially or leagally unlocked but in actuallity they are unlocked with alternative SIM attachments as shown in the pictures below:

SIM insertion slot showing extension wires

The actual Universal SIM attachment

To find out if the iPhone you are buying is unlockable by its carrier or not, ask the seller for the phone’s serial number and then visit:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1937

Buying a fake-unlocked iPhone could mean that your phone might be illegal to use in some countries because it violates usage laws. Also, it means a degration and sometimes the denial of service when it comes to data services and the quality of phone calls.

Pictures and Story from the Arabic source iPhone Islam. The only source for Arabisation of iPhone.

The beggest selling points for the Android and the G1 in my openion are the simultanious execution of applications and street level on google maps. Who needs any of these?!

You can run applications in the background on iPhone by using the Cydia app Backgrounder and you can use google earth for now to get street level pictures and wait for 2.2 iPhone software for full street view capabilities

I am sticking to my iPhone for now Gotta love the big screen and the safari browser responsiveness and page browsing speed.

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

An interesting news article about the work of BT (formerly British Telecom), Glamorgan University, Australia’s Edith Cowan University and Sim Lifecycle Services where researchers recovered data from handsets from mobile phone recycling companies:

Mobile phones can never be totally wiped clean of data

To get more information on the research at Edith Cowan University and its upcoming conferences please visit SECAU Security Research Centre’s website:

http://www.secau.org/

Here are some published refereed journal and conference papers to give you an idea of what to expect for the Edith Cowan University conferences in December:

- Valli, C. and A. Jones (2008). A study of 2nd Hand Blackberry for sale - World class security foiled by humans. Proceedings of the 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing - SAM 2008 - The 2008 International Conference on Security & Management., Las Vegas, USA.

- Al-Zarouni, M. (2007, 3rd December, 2007). Introduction to Mobile Phone Flasher Devices and Considerations for their Use in Mobile Phone Forensics. Paper presented at the The 5th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus, Western Australia.

- Yap, L. F., & Jones, A. (2007, 3rd December, 2007). Profiling Through a Digital Mobile Device. Paper presented at the The 5th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus, Western Australia.

- Yap, L. F., & Jones, A. (2007). Deleted Mobile Device’s Evidence Recovery:. Paper presented at the Media and Information-War Conference 2007, Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia.

You can register to attend Edith Cowan University’s conferences here:

http://conferences.scis.ecu.edu.au/

Hope to see you there

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

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

I’ve had my iPhone 3G with MobileMe for a while now but it didn’t seem like the push service from mobile me was working at all. This changed starting from yesterday though It is working now and I am happy with it so far.

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

According to Jonathan Zdziarski:

So, if you have to return your iPhone to an Apple or AT&T store and they offer to replace it with a new one, make sure that you wipe your data properly first. A proper bit level wipe is needed here and NOT a system restore!

According to tuaw:

A half dozen different firms are actively hunting for developers who can assist law enforcement in reading data off unjailbroken iPhones

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

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

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!

Do you live in the United Arab Emirates? Are you a hacker? Then this site is made for you! Get the latest hacking news, exploits, links, pod casts and more through this easy to use website.

Feel like you want to contribute to the site? Then drop us a line at: (hackers) at {marwan} dot [com].

http://WWW.UAEHACKERS.COM

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

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

Apparently, it is easier than you think. A penetration tester said “It turned out to be one of the easiest penetration tests I’d ever done!”

To read more about it go to:

http://www.zone-h.org/content/view/14811/30/

Read this report on Reuters.

Also, watch this video.

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/

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.

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

• http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/08/24/iphone_unlocked/ Contains the video
• http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/ The instructions site
• http://www.tech.co.uk/gadgets/phones/mobile-phones/news/new-instructions-for-iphone-hardware-unlock?articleid=1348296214
• http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/005210.html

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?

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

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/

Download and read it! It is not small though about 8-10MB. News, articles, intreviews, book releases, software walk-throughs, and more.

Link: http://www.insecuremag.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

For more information go to the MSN Video:
http://ninemsn.video.msn.com/v/en-au/v.htm?g=7386e8dd-6f00-4c67-931b-cea66739a91e&f=&fg=copy

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• Jones charged with sexual misconduct