How to Jailbreak the iPhone 4

This guide will show you how to jailbreak your iPhone 4 using the new JailbreakMe.com. In case you actually need a guide. ;) 1. On your iDevice, open Safari. 2. Go to JailbreakMe.com. 3. Slide to Jailbreak. 4. Wait a minute or so while it goes through it's deal. 5. Enjoy a jailbroken iDevice.

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VANITY: Apple's App Store not so secure after all

For the last several years Apple has touted the security of its App Store. You could rest assured that any app you purchase from that store had been screened by Apple for acceptable functionality and safety, and that you did not have to ever worry about something bad being in the App Store. Play freely and securely in their walled garden. That's a great story, except for the fact it's not true. Recently a 15 year old App developer released an app that clearly violated a prime rule of the App Store - thou shalt not release a tethering application....

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App Store, Hacked. (Updated: iTunes Accounts too.)

Two iPhone App developers have spotted what appears to be a hacking of the App store rankings by a rogue developer. The rankings in the books category of the US iTunes store features 40 out of 50 apps by the same app developer, Thuat Nguyen. What’s more concerning is that it seems individuals iTunes accounts have been hacked to make mass purchases of that one developer’s apps.

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 can read your iPhone's secrets

Do you have a PIN code on your iPhone? Well, while that might protect you from someone making a call or fiddling with your apps, it doesn’t prevent access to your data … as long as the person doing the snooping around is using Ubuntu “Lucid Lynx” 10.04. Security experts Bernd Marienfeldt and Jim Herbeck discovered something really interesting when they hooked up a non-jailbroken, fully up-to-date iPhone 3GS to a PC running Lucid Lynx … I uncovered a data protection vulnerability [9], which I could reproduce on 3 other non jail broken 3GS iPhones (MC 131B, MC132B) with different...

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De-Fence, De-Fence

Illegal Immigration: The government puts the brakes on a problem-plagued "virtual" fence on our border with Mexico. Whatever happened to the old-fashioned kind? If ever there was a shovel-ready project, this is it. The much-ballyhooed "virtual" fence that was supposed to monitor and control illegal immigration doesn't work and is being scrapped as we evaluate alternatives and rely on existing technology. After years of delay and billions of dollars already spent, Secretary Napolitano on Tuesday halted work on SBInet. The system involves cameras, sensors and radars designed to let a small number of dispatchers watch the border on computer monitors...

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The US won't secure a single additional mile of border in 2010

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to move several hundred Border Patrol agents away from the U.S.-Mexico border and will not secure a single additional mile of the U.S. border in fiscal 2010, according to the department’s annual performance report. 
 
The document—“Department of Homeland Security Annual Performance Report: Fiscal Years 2008-2010”—was originally published by the Bush administration on Jan. 15 and was updated by the Obama administration on May 7. 
 
Excluding the border between Alaska and Canada, the combined length of the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada is about 6,000 miles (with almost 2,000 miles along the...

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Effort Aims to Secure Southern Afghanistan for Elections

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2009 – Hours into the new Operation Eastern Resolve II in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, defense officials report that U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers are confronting “some resistance” as they work to secure the area for the Aug. 20 elections. The Marines and Afghan soldiers launched the offensive earlier today in Helmand province’s Now Zad district. Much of the operation is centered on Dahaneh, a Taliban-held southern Afghanistan town, and the surrounding mountains. The mission was ordered to disrupt insurgent violence and intimidation campaigns and provide freedom of movement for Afghans to vote in upcoming provincial and national...

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U.S. Soldiers, Iraqi Police Secure Busy Marketplace

TAJI, Iraq, May 6, 2009 – Pennsylvania Army National Guard soldiers and their Iraqi counterparts have been hitting the streets to maintain security in Taji Market, one of the busiest sectors of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team’s area of operations, north of Baghdad. Army Spc. Adam Feldon talks with an Iraqi boy May 4, 2009, as a patrol of Pennsylvania Army National Guard soldiers and Iraqi police officers moves through Taji Market, north of Baghdad. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Doug Roles  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The market is a lynchpin in the security effort because...

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Iraqi Army Commandos Secure Owesat

Local Sons of Iraq security volunteers greet Lt. Col. Ayoob (right), commander, Commando Battalion, 17th Iraqi Army brigade, during Operation Al Sakar in the Owesat area, April 12. Photo by Pfc. Evan Loyd, 1st Armored Division. BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Army (IA) took the lead in conducting Operation Al-Sakar, a combined Iraqi/U.S. counterinsurgency operation in the Owesat area southwest of here, April 12. The purpose of the operation was to clear weapons, find any hidden explosives and capture insurgents in the area. "The Owesat area is void of a Coalition forces presence and is a potential location to move accelerants...

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Obama says treasury secretary's job is secure

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says treasury secretary is one job that's not up for grabs. In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" Obama said that if Treasury chief Timothy Geithner offered his resignation, the answer would be, "Sorry buddy, you've still got the job."

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