AirPlay video streaming from iOS devices hacked into Macs (video)
Hey Mac home theater users, listen up -- your AirPlay wishes have come true. TUAW's very own Erica Sadun has developed a free (ad supported) 0.01 AirPlayer alpha hack that lets your Mac play host to AirPlay video streamed off of iOS devices
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, apple tv, check-the-video, devices-hacked, entry, erica, ipad, ipodtouch, jailbreak, jailbroken, video, your-jailbroken
Clear iSpot gets easy web-based ‘jailbreak’
For hackers, Clear must have known that its iSpot mobile hotspot would be hard to resist -- $100 for the device contract-free plus unlimited WiMAX for $25 a month is a pretty insane deal, after all, and the only catch is that they try to lock non-iOS devices out of the action. Indeed, it took mere hours for unlocks to start coming out of the woodwork, but now it's easier than ever: the developer of one of the original iSpot hacks has circled back to create a new unlock that requires nothing more than a couple link clicks while you're on a machine connected to the hotspot.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, arbitrary, caution, clear, entry, hacks, hotspot, ispot, jailbreak, result, sorts, unlock, wimax, woodwork
Microsoft: we figured people would hack Windows Phone 7, would suggest that they don’t
Hot on the heels of the release of a utility for bypassing the Windows Marketplace and sideloading your own apps, Microsoft has released a brief statement on the state of the Windows Phone 7 hacking community... and we wouldn't exactly say they're too worked up about it: "We anticipated that people would attempt to unlock the phones and explore the underlying operating system
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: breaking-hacks, brief-statement, cat, chevronwp7, developers, heels, jailbreak, Warranty, windows phone 7, windows-phone, wp7
iOS 4.2.1 Jailbreak hits with updated redsn0w
The Dev-Team Blog was just updated with a new redsn0w version 0.9.6b4 jailbreak (based on Geohot's Limera1n bootrom exploit) for iOS 4.2.1 . Unfortunately, iOS device owners won't find jailbreaking as easy as navigating to a website .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 3gs, blobs, bootrom-exploit, dev-team, entry, geohot, ios 4.2, ios4.2, jailbreak, models, power-or-needs, the-ultrasn0w, ultrasn0w
PSA: Windows Phone 7′s third-party apps easy to decompile, native code hooks exposed
We suspect most developers have gathered this since MIX earlier this year -- many of them have been dealing with variations of the problem since the genesis of Microsoft's .NET Framework -- but we thought we'd throw out a note that word's getting around on how easy it is to tear apart applications downloaded from the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, gain access to their resources, and get a look at their inner workings. Microsoft has been encouraging developers on the desktop to make this tough by using code obfuscation tools -- Dotfuscator, specifically -- for many years, but Dotfuscator's developer has only just released a free version (through March 31 of next year) for WP7, so it's made things tough to secure. In other words: business as usual, and "business as usual" isn't as airtight as your average white-hat dev would like.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: code, desktop, engadget, hooks, jailbreak, microsoft, phone, result, windows phone 7, windowsphone7, workings
Limera1n and Greenpois0n iOS 4.1 jailbreaks now available for Mac, Linux
We thought it was a wee bit ridiculous that Geohot's original iOS 4.1 jailbreak only worked on Windows , but that's a thing of the past now -- limera1n now supports Mac as well, and the Chronic Dev Team's greenpois0n variant can purportedly free your device from Apple shackles from any of OS X, Linux or Windows. Mind you, there's still no working carrier unlock for iOS 4.1, so be sure to back up your baseband and don't expect to be making calls on T-Mobile USA -- and remember kids, there are always risks to playing chicken with the Apple firmware train.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: greenpois0n, hacked, jailbreak, limerain, mobile, os x, osx, train, usa, windows
Engadget Mobile Podcast 049 – 08.07.2010
Sex scandals, arson, flipouts, jailbreaks: it's the Engadget Mobile Podcast that's also an episode of The Young and the Restless . Hosts: Chris Ziegler, Myriam Joire ( tnkgrl ) Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Daestro - Light Powered ( Ghostly International ) 00:40 - HP CEO Mark Hurd resigns over sexual harassment investigation (updated with liveblog!) 07:02 - BlackBerry Torch review 24:55 - EVO 4G starts getting Android 2.2 update over the air 34:02 - Motorola Flipout makes North American debut with a Rogers exclusive 37:$6 - Motorola Charm pops up on Best Buy for $250, hopefully off contract 46:38 - Official: iPhone 4 jailbreak hits from iPhone Dev Team (updated with video) 53:35 - Listener questions Hear the podcast Subscribe to the podcast [ iTunes ] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes [ RSS MP3 ] Add the Engadget Mobile Podcast feed (in MP3) to your RSS aggregator and have the show delivered automatically [ RSS AAC ] Add the Engadget Mobile Podcast feed (in enhanced AAC) to your RSS aggregator [ Zune ] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in the Zune Marketplace Download the podcast LISTEN (MP3) LISTEN (AAC) Contact the podcast podcast (at) engadgetmobile (dot) com. Follow us on Twitter @zpower @tnkgrl @engadgetmobile Filed under: Podcasts Engadget Mobile Podcast 049 - 08.07.2010 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:45:00 EST.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, engadget, engadget-mobile, engadgetmobile, engadgetmobilepodcast, international, jailbreak, light, listener, marketplace, mobile, result, sexual-harassment, the-podcast, zune
Visualized: iPhone 4 jailbreak makes itself at home
Sorry folks, we don't think this one falls under "fair use." Nice try though. Visualized: iPhone 4 jailbreak makes itself at home originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, apple-store, applestore, engadget, iphone, iphone 4, itself-at-home, jailbreak, jailbreak-makes, jailbreaking, jailbroken, one-falls, originally-appeared, result
Library of Congress adds DMCA exception for jailbreaking or rooting your phone
This is a wild one, and we're still parsing through the announcement, but on the surface it looks like the Library of Congress has added new anti-circumvention exceptions to the DMCA that, among other things, allow people to tweak their handsets for the purpose of installing legally obtained software -- known as jailbreaking in iOS land, and rooting in the Android / webOS world. Check out the full statement from the Librarian of Congress, which is mostly an update of existing exceptions on record, after the break, but here's the primary excerpt: Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset. Now, before all you EFFers go all totally wild (although it's undoubtedly a win for the EFF line of thinking on this issue), you should know that this in no way requires Apple to jailbreak your phone for you, or lay down its arms in this ongoing fight.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: announcement, Controls, exceptions, infringement, jailbreak, jailbreaking, library, result, softw, wireless, youtube
Geohot teases iPhone 4 jailbreak, no plans for release
Is this the honest-to-goodness iPhone 4 jailbreak we've been waiting for, or just another userland JB ?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: hacks, honest, jailbreak, jailbroken, making-progress, promised-hacks, result