It’s not a consumer-friendly hack, but some of the uber hackers over on the hackint0sh forum have figured out a way to use other carrier’s SIM cards in the iPhone using some SIM cloning techniques. The method was posted by a person claiming the device now completely works with service in Croatia. Hopefully a reader […]
Geek.com reports that id Software has put its entire backlist, including some of their more retro titles, on Steam. Steam is the online game distribution system that is used for Half-Life 2, but has grown to include a lot of other games. Included in this collection are Commander Keen ($5), Wolfenstein 3D ($5), and more […]
Erica made an iPhone voice recorder utility, wow! She writes – I was pretty sure the capability was in there to begin with–after all, didn’t the Steve promise us one back in the January Keynote? So that certainty made the class hunt go a little quicker. When I returned home from the Apple Store Genius […]
Meet Sue. She’s straight out of school with 0 investments and a $36,000/year job. She’s hardcore in her simple living, and has a roommate so she can save for an early retirement. She manages to live on a tiny $16,320/year take-home budget. It’s hard work, but she’ll be a millionaire at 44, even without a […]
That was fast, the first 3rd party iPhone application is out, it’s a terminal app, nicely done – round up here… Link. Also worth mentioning – Erica (MAKE author, MAKE tech board) and TUAW blogger is doing amazing work with the unofficial Apple iPhone SDK: iPhone screenshot utility – Link. Journeys inside the iPhone’s SDK […]
I stumbled across this paper from the 2007 Chaos Communication Camp which describes a method for extracting the cryptographic keys used by either dm-crypt or cryptoloop. Technically, the cryptographic keys need to reside in memory while your encrypted disk is in use, so, obviously, if an attacker has access to your physical RAM, they will […]
Kyle Rankin, author/coauthor of several O’Reilly books (Knoppix Hacks, Linux Multimedia Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, and Ubuntu Hacks) has just turned in his draft for the second edition of Knoppix Hacks, and we need your help. Hackszine is looking for two good tech reviewers; even when we have an author who really knows his stuff […]
