iPhone

[dub]

finally upgraded my iPhone 4 to 7.1.1, the speed change from 7.0.x is definitely worth it

semi-tethered jailbreak on there, I imagine its not too long 'till the untethered one is about

[kerser]

Still rocking my 4s calm

[dub]

my 4 actually works fine after upgrading to 7.1.1, was sluggin so badly on 7.0.6

 

the jailbreak is dead though, bare apps crashing, but I can live without pirated apps until they get it properly fixed

[Heero Yuy]

Still rocking my 4s calm

 

 

 

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Tempted to get the S5 but gonna hold out to see what the 6 is saying, I'm oo comfortable with IOS to change.

[Creed Diskenth]

http://doulci.net/

 

 

Apple too late to stop massive iCloud breach, hackers claim

 

 

 

 

No stolen iPhone is safe, whether it’s locked or not.

An anonymous hacker who has exploited an iCloud security flaw that lets anyone unlock a lost or stolen iPhone says Apple contacted him about the matter today, but he deleted the email.

“They have asked me to contact [them] as quickly as possible, but why now?” the hacker, who goes by AquaXetine, said in an email to Cult of Mac. “I’ve already warned Apple couple months ago.” Cult of Mac confirmed that the email did in fact come from Apple.

The hack, which is the first of its kind, bypasses the iCloud security system for locked iOS devices called Activation Lock. By using the free DoulCi site, which appeared to be offline most of the day but is now back up, a locked iOS device can be tricked into thinking it’s talking to Apple’s iCloud servers when connected to a computer.

When it was introduced in iOS 7, Apple called Activation Lock "a really powerful theft deterrent."

When it was introduced in iOS 7, Apple called Activation Lock “a really powerful theft deterrent.”

With iPhone theft accounting for about half the crimes in cities like San Francisco and New York, lawmakers are pushing legislation that requires all smartphones to have built-in kill switches. Activation Lock is Apple’s answer to the problem, a fail-safe introduced in iOS 7 to keep stolen iPhones and iPads from being usable. The system is designed to keep the contents of locked devices unreadable and unable to be erased without the user’s Apple ID

 

The hackers responsible for bypassing iCloud and Activation Lock, known by online pseudonyms AquaXetine and MerrukTechnolog, form Team DoulCi (roughly “iCloud” backward).

Their exploit, which they are labeling “the world’s first iCloud Activation Bypass,” involves adding just one line of code to the “hosts” file on a desktop computer. Instructions can be found on the tool’s new website, DoulCi. Dutch publication De Telegraaf first reported news of the hack this morning.

Security researcher and iOS hacker Steven De Franco described the bypass as a “man-in-the-middle attack,” which means that it intercepts traffic going between a device and Apple’s servers. “It seems like it’s a firmware-related bug,” said De Franco in an interview with Cult of Mac. “So it would require a new update [from Apple] to patch it.”

When the hack is used and an iPhone is tricked past Activation Lock, the SIM card becomes unreadable “because they don’t have Apple’s private keys to tell the phone whether it’s unlocked or not,” explained De Franco. The two hackers behind DoulCi have sai they have a fix coming for the SIM block issue.

 

The DoulCi website says the tool was “built with love for the people to give them a second chance to get there iDevices working again” and is “only for personal use.”

Tweets show that thousands of locked iPhones around the world have been bypassed using the tool just today. Most of the tweets thanking the two hackers come from outside of the U.S, where stolen iOS devices are shipped and sold at a premium on the black market.

In the Philippines, a Twitter user showed six iPhones that were unlocked

 

The hackers claim the project has been a huge success. Earlier today, they posted screenshots of server logs claiming 5,700 devices had been unlocked in just five minutes. Later, they claimed another 10,000 devices had been unlocked. The two hackers say they worked on the exploit for five months and contacted Apple in March.

 

 

[M.Dot]

 

i buy apps that i use everyday

 

but why am i gonna spend £5 /£10 on a app or game that i use once in a blue moon.

 

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You Can Now Pirate Apps On Your iPhone Without Jailbreaking

 

Apple must have heaved a great sigh of relief when it heard its Christmas wish had been answered — Installous, the jailbroken iOS app pirating service from the Hackulous community, 

was finally dead

. But not so fast, Apple. Now anyone can install pirated apps, and without having to jailbreak too. Uh oh.

The old adage is holding true. Where one pirate bites the dust, two more grow to take its place. The problem for Apple this time round is that both the Zeusmos and Kuaiyong services allow one-tap, instant installs of pirated apps on any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. No jailbreak is required; just install the apps directly on your iOS device of choice. One has the gall to charge you for an installer app, unless you’re jailbroken — yep, charging you to install pirated apps you could just have bought in the first place — while one just installs from a web app.

Getting in contact with TNW

, one of the services’ developers, a 15-year-old thorn in Apple’s side, says that it’s actually just a way to allow homebrew apps without having to fork out for a yearly Apple developer account. But let’s not kid ourselves here; this is piracy straight up and simple. Apple better get its act in gear because piracy via jailbreak is one thing, but piracy without having to root the system — that’s something Apple should definitely have its knickers in a twist over. [

TNW

]

 

 

 

 

How long did this last? Shows how long ago I stopped reading this thread/my iphone hype died.

 

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Only came across this cos I was looking for a specific post.

 

Faze or someone else - what's the make of those thin screen protector like cases?

 

I remember them being mentioned a few years ago.

[zoot]

So how do I download apps for free without jailbreaking?

[dub]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u3919kvdfv85ubu/Video.MOV

so necessary

[Adotbiz]

Paid EE to unlock my phone to all networks, they said can take 20 odd days, I know they trolling me they prob got the code right on there screen...

[dub]

nah they have to do through iTunes, shouldn't take that long though, 10 days is what O2 say

[Adotbiz]

I feel to ring them but guy said if ring all they will do is re submit your process and start from scratch.. Soon as it's done I'm cancelling the contract anyways EE are shit

[Adotbiz]

Rung them yesterday, said I should have received the email few days ago, the idiot must have taken my email wrong... All done now though

[Ephren Taylor]

The strength of my signal at work severly depleats whenever I plug in my phone to charge..

 

Does this happen to anyone else?

 

I could be on 4G one min.... plug in my phone, then i'm seeing E or GPRS on the corner

[dub]

untethered jailbreak for 7.1.1 is out btw (possibly old news, dunno)

[Ephren Taylor]

Safe for that

 

I've been on 7.0.4 for the longest

 

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I want to back up and delete all the media from my phone

 

I've got no space to take any photos or videos. My icloud is full and keeps telling me my devices have not been backed up for weeks. Is iTunes the best way to go, or is there a 3rd party app that people reccomend for their iphone backups?

[Ephren Taylor]

Thanks Faze.... Will give Dropbox a spin. Long overdue giving that program a try tbh.

 

My iCloud has 25GB Storage, with 0 bytes available

 

Just checked the Summary of crap I have on my phone that I hoard and refuse to delete for some reason:

 

Songs: 175

Videos: 72

Photos: 9174

Applications: 157

Capacity: 27.5 GB

Available: 87MB

 

 

Surely i'm not the only media hoarder

[time_bomb]

9k pics bloody hell

[Ephren Taylor]

It's 32GB

 

Def looking forward to a deleting spree after sync'ing

 

The annoying thing is that I only need to delete 2 videos to be living life again...One 17 min vid of J Spades performing and another 8 min vid of K&K

[dub]

can't you just reencode your stuff to a higher compression?

[Adotbiz]

anyone know what app I should use, if i downloaded some marvel comics on torrents also how would I get them to work.

 

thanks