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by Xuzz 15y ago
Related (possibly identical) story posted recently with 200+ points: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3441451
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I don't have to worry about Facebook selling my browser history. Well, no, you don't when you have an account either. Facebook might save your browsing history of pages with Facebook widgets, but they aren't going to sell this. (They prob
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by Xuzz 15y ago
The Clang build shipped (called "LLVM Compiler" in Xcode) is also buggy: it has issues with some floating point operations on armv6 (edit: I think; it might only be THUMB, or THUMB and armv6) builds (for the iPhone). There isn't a non-LLV
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How Siri's Authentication Works(blog.chpwn.com)
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Weird, my 3GS seems no different on iOS 5 vs iOS 4. At worst, it's nothing like the iOS 4 performance on the iPhone 3G. This video apparently shows the 3GS being faster than iPhone 4 (believable, actually, if you consider the quadrupling of
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by Xuzz 15y ago
It's not Chrome. It's based on WebKit, like Chrome, yes. But it's not Chrome. (Easy way to check: note that the icon says "Browser", not "Chrome", and it isn't the Chrome icon.)
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Maybe the only popular one, but certainly not the only one. In fact, only webOS is (was, I guess) locked to a single company. Windows Phone isn't open source, but there are at least four hardware manufacturers. Nokia's MeeGo is open sourc
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I'm saying that I don't necessarily want consolidation, but I don't have anything against it: I can see potential scenarios where each option here could both help and hurt consumers. We'll see about LTE. From my understanding — and the fact
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by Xuzz 15y ago
My point here is that T-mobile, as it currently is, just isn't competition for AT&T and Verizon anyway . 1. The only thin I can find at all on Google related to T-mobile building is this post, suggesting they need a partner to start wo
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I asked this on Twitter, but perhaps I'll get better responses here: T-mobile is dying; it has no plans for the future. They don't have the iPhone (and are unlikely to get it, due to working on a different set of 3G frequencies). They don
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by Xuzz 15y ago
On OSX, you might be able to do something similar using dyld's interposing feature ( http://opensource.apple.com/source/dyld/dyld-132.13/include/... ) to replace write() and the dyld equivalent to LD_PRELOAD, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Objective-C also has Cycript at http://cycript.org/ , which has a hybrid syntax of JavaScript and Objective-C and supports injecting into any running process.b
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Be sure to take a look again with a phone running Android 4.0 when those are more available: the new "Roboto" typeface is pretty good on more hi-res secreens, especially compared to the "Droid Sans" they were using before.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
iOS has multiple processes on the system using hardware acceleration at the same time, and always has. A few examples are the system-rendered status bar at the top of the screen, or the "Notification Center" that you pull down from the top,
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by Xuzz 15y ago
As someone who spends a significant amount of time reverse engineering how iOS works, that is incorrect. Currently, the iOS keyboard is managed by the app itself (and I agree: this was likely chosen originally for performance). However, iOS
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Many of them were free. The Galaxy Tab 10.1" is from Google I/O, the TouchPad is from HP for development, although I bought the iPad and Kindle Fire myself. I do use them for development too, where it is useful to have a device for the plat
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by Xuzz 15y ago
See, to me, Samsung does have an issue here, but it's not about the "rounded rectangle" shape or the "reasonably thick black bezel": it's the fact they have both of those, like the iPad, but then also surround them with a marginal silver
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Single page (print link): http://www.popularmechanics.com/print-this/what-really-happe...
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by Xuzz 15y ago
It's somewhat difficult to do DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES right on OSX; it tends to subtly break various system components even if your binary doesn't do anything. However, SIMBL ( http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php ) usually works f
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Maybe it would make more sense to do this as a (large, I guess) case for the iPod shuffle? With the smaller device, it might even be able to provide a much-extended battry, if nothing else.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I did here: http://blog.chpwn.com/post/13572216737
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I disassembled the iOS version of Carrier IQ, and it exits on startup if not enabled. Even when enabled, it runs as an unprivileged user and connects via SSL so should not be any "attack vector".
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by Xuzz 15y ago
It's on all iPhones, they all run the same software. However, it does check your carrier and will exit or upload at different times depending on what carrier is in use — for example, 3G uploads appear to only be enabled for US carriers.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
(I wrote that post.) I think that is the case: it is using the same "diagnostics are enabled?" function call that the Crash Report submission is using, and the binary logs "This is not supported hardware, or the user has opted out." and e
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Okay, so you say "not Chrome". You realize that Chrome is pretty completely open source and does not send browsing history back to Google?
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt to HTC, Verizon, and even Carrier IQ here: I don't think any of them wanted a keylogger running on all these phones (at least, not to this extent). It's likely just a big misunderstanding between t
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by Xuzz 15y ago
That's not the parent's point: the point is that iOS — correctly — asks for permission when required, not in advance. The idea is that asking in advance is similar to a click-through EULA, not that Apple doesn't use one.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Apple, and LG, and IBM, and... (Why are factories often attributed solely to Apple? I think we should hold all companies using the products from factories responsible for who they supply from; the article even claims only 1/10th of the fact
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I would agree, except that Google itself has said that over 60% of their mobile traffic comes from iOS. [1] [1]: http://9to5mac.com/2011/09/21/google-23rds-of-our-mobile-sea...
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I'm not able to tell if the [1] link there is "shipped" or actually "sold to consumers" — they seem to talk about selling 1.2M but shipping the 1.8M by the end of the year. Since I doubt all of those are being sold right away, I'm not sure

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