Verizon and the Sale of the Customer
According to Verizon's latest update to their privacy policy, they will now "share" (i.e. sell) lots of information that may make customers uncomfortable. Verizon's changes to their privacy policy, one must assume the term privacy is being used ironically, includes sharing:
Mobile Usage Information:Addresses of websites you visit when using our wireless service. These data strings (or URLs) may include search terms you have usedLocation of your device ("Location Information")App and device feature Read more [...]
Touch KO Another Example of Sloppy Programming
Back in 2004 my brother brought home Fight Night. It quickly became a game where me and my brothers put our egos on the line (and consequently made angry accusations of cheap fight styles and cheating). To put it simply, it was fun.
When I saw that a new boxing game with decent graphics had hit the app store I was interested. I bought it and, for a few moments, I thought Touch KO would be fun. But that thought was quickly disrupted.
First the game was too easy. I'll admit it gets (a little tiny Read more [...]
Asteroids for iPod Touch (or iPhone)
There's a new comic book styled asteroids game for the iPhone and iPod Touch called Cataica. If you've ever played asteroids before you know this game is super simple but actually pretty fun. It won't hold your attention for hours, but it's a nice quick distraction.
Right now it is free. Have fun.
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Brad Pitt Japanese Cell Phone Ad
Brad Pitt has been doing a whole bunch of Softbank ads here in Japan. Softbank is a cellphone company. To be more precise they are the cellphone company that refused to give me a 2 year contract and (nearly) free iPhone just because I wasn't going to be in Japan for two more years! How dare they see through my evil scheme!!
The question I have is which is cuter for the ladies. Brad Pitt:
Or the Softbank dog (soon to release his own DVD):
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Safely Erase Your iPhone Before You Sell It
A while back I posted about a guy discovering that through forensics you could get tons of data off a used iPhone. There was a method to wipe iPhone data, but it require jailbreaking the iPhone and then doing a much of command line stuff. I doubt the average consumer did it.
So now the same man has delivered a much simpler system. Jonathan Zdziarsk has created an app for the iTunes store that securely erases your data from the iPhone. It is called, of course, iErase.
Zdziarsk describes just how Read more [...]
Are iTunes App Store Prices Too Low?
If you sell something for $100 people will say it should be $90 you can sell the same thing for $90 and people will say it should be $70. Produce apps that are worth more than $0.99 and people will buy them. Read more [...]
Japanese Dictionary for iPhone and iPod Touch
Because I needed a Japanese dictionary and the iPod Touch seemed to me to have the best array of options. It uses the same free dictionaries that many Japanese English dictionaries use, so that isn't its selling point. Read more [...]
Wipe That iPhone Before You Sell It
Now force both mount points into read-only mode: # umount -f /private/var # mount -o ro /private/var # mount -o ro / NOTE: The GUI will be non-responsive when /private/var is mounted read-only, so be sure not to try and use it. Read more [...]
Read This Before You Sell Your Old iPhone for the 3G iPhone
Unlikely, even Apple and AT&T don't clean the iPhone properly.A verified detective from the Oregon State Police notified me this afterrnoon that an out-of-the-box refurbished iPhone he purchased contained recoverable personal data including email, personal photos, and even financial information which he was able to recover using my forensic toolkit.The image to the left is one piece of that personal info that was recovered, posted only because it doesn't reveal extremely sensitive info. Read more [...]
