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by Xuzz 14y ago
Looks like you can swap it out: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=226108584182842#How-do-I-... ?
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by Xuzz 14y ago
The Google Play store has plenty of pirated apps on it all the time, which you often have to DMCA Google for any chance of getting taken down. I don't think that's a big difference here.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Previous submission (still on the front page right now, at least): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4518588
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by Xuzz 14y ago
That's more likely because Google won't let them add it, not because Amazon wants to block it. Google Play is a proprietary service and they like to use it a a threat to force OEMs to cooperate. I don't see Google allowing it on a heavily c
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by Xuzz 14y ago
There is no public API on the iPhone to access the IMEI, so at least it is pretty conclusively not using that there.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Unless, of course, you're Nintendo: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Signing_bug
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by Xuzz 14y ago
No they can't: part of a process cannot create executable memory while another part cannot. They'd have to move WebKit completely out of process: a huge task as it already does most text drawing.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Profiles are still web-based, unlike the news feed.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
It's still there, just less obviously accessible: Settings app -> Facebook -> About.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Apple's app stores, on both iOS and Mac, both host games and allow unlimited free updates to them.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
This has been supported with Colloquy on iOS for years — even using ZNC as the bouncer with the Colloquy plugin. I'm glad there's now a solution for Android that looks like it might be approaching the same awesomeness level! More info: htt
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by Xuzz 14y ago
I actually wish it was that obvious: I used Palm OS, RIM, and Windows Mobile devices before the iPhone and the unlock mechanisms (on the touchscreens!) ranged from "press the tiny * key, then the unlock soft button" (which was awful) to "pr
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by Xuzz 14y ago
They're distributed as .zip files (renamed .ipa), so a corrupted file or bad download wouldn't extract anyway. The real issue here is in their DRM: they have to re-encrypt the binary for each user, and the encryption seems to be incorrect i
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by Xuzz 14y ago
If you're technical enough to be buying old computers to work around it, I bet you could figure out how to disable it when the option is right there. :)
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by Xuzz 14y ago
The FSF, not the EFF. The EFF is generally much more reasonable (moderate?) about things like this; the FSF is generally more in line with Stallman's views (radical or crazy, depending if you agree with him).
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by Xuzz 14y ago
The part about "Facebook sneaking through contacts and adding friends' numbers" isn't correct: the Facebook app has always had a pretty clear description about what would happen if contact sync (an optional feature) is enabled. For example,
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by Xuzz 14y ago
UIWebView runs in-process. There's no way for "part of" a process to be able to map executable pages without other parts able to, so either they let any app run whatever code it wants, disable Nitro, or rewrite large chunks of the UI to mov
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Just Googled for "square chrome icon" and copied a link to the first relevant image I found, hah.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
So far, there have been two userland exploits of the iOS browser (Safari) since Apple implemented code signing in 2008, at JailbreakMe.com. Both of those required tons of extra work compared to what they would have required otherwise. It's
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Sparrow tried to position it like that, but that was not the real story: it was not Apple "blocking" them, it was that they did not want to put in the effort to setup a real push service, and instead wanted to run all the time on the device
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Something like this might have worked and fit inside the iOS frame: http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/132/3/1/chrome_11_flu...
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by Xuzz 14y ago
iOS code signs all code that runs on the system. Compared to most other operating systems, this is a huge security win: without another exploit in that system, even a standard remote code execution vulnerability is useless. Nitro generates
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Same link, discussion from earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167721
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by Xuzz 14y ago
In Facebook for iPhone, there is a way to report an issue: you can go to Help Center -> Something's Broken -> Report an Issue -> "please let us know", which then shows a page to file a report. It could be made even easier to fin
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Good question. The one I posted above was an accident; I don't know how I did it.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
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by Xuzz 14y ago
The real article you want is (as linked): http://atnan.com/blog/2011/11/17/enabling-remote-debugging-v... This post is essentially just a compiler warning fix for the (much more interesting) one linked.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
The important part is using it, not specs. My Lumia 900 scrolls faster than my Galaxy Nexus, and I don't even really care why. But, it's still a better experience for scrolling through a list of items, even if the specs on paper are technic
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by Xuzz 14y ago
The legal route would to be to provide an installer that downloads e iOS frameworks from Apple, so you aren't redistributing anything. However, it would still be quite a bit of work: iOS has a not-insignificant layer of drivers in the not-y
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Dropbox is just a folder — the reverse engineering was to inject themselves into the Finder for their custom icons and context menus.

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