Lots of talk lately about the new patent discovery filed by apple. This patent was actually filed over a year ago, so maybe this is now a mute point with jailbreaking and unlocking becoming officially legal. But the gist of what the patent is, is apple wants to be able to remotely kill your phone, take pictures remotely with the phones camera, and use things such as voice recognition and even heart beat patterns as “unauthorized user” recognition. This is scary, but interesting at the same time. Remember, this is just a patent…apple files tons of patents that never see production, so no need to stress at the moment.

I am a police officer during my day job, a detective actually. I am looking at this patent idea from a different angle. What if apple is trying to make the device more secure for the USER, not to kill jail broken devices? Think about it….your device is lost or stolen…apple can remotely kill your device to protect your data, but also remotely access your camera and photograph the possible suspect who has your phone, along with his surroundings. As a detective who may investigate your stolen iPhone case, thats some good evidence.

Maybe….just maybe…apple isn’t acting sinister here, but trying to come up with new security measures for us, the customers.

Also…its illegal for them to remotely access you camera and film you without your knowledge. Here in VA it’s a class one misdemeanor punishable by a $1500.00 fine and a year in jail. Not to mention the civil suits that would follow. Recently a school district got into trouble for remotely accessing the “missing” laptops of several students via the web cams and filmed some of them in compromising positions. That case is still in litigation….but it will not end well for then school
district!

Now I’m being optimistic, maybe apple is up to trouble, and is actually trying to bend the law and spy on their customers. If this turns out to be the case this fanboy will shout a big FUCK you to apple and a BIG hello droid. I will also help organize apple store protests across the country. But for now, let’s all calm done and wait and see. This whole “traitorgate” may be much to do about nothing.

As always, stay informed. New apple rumors come out everyday. Some are true, most are not.

Make sure to follow @KP1877 on Twitter

written by KP1877 \\ tags: apple spying, kp1877, patent, Traitorware

Last night I had a scary moment. For some reason my iphone 4 (on 4.0.1) was crashing every time I received and incoming text if my phone was in sleep mode. In other words, if I was using the phone at the time the text came in all worked. If the phone was not in use, I would hear the text alert but then my phone would crash. One time it even had the dreaded “connect to itunes logo”, but oddly, a reboot got rid of the connect to itunes logo (never seen that before). Odd

I began to unistall every app, jailbroke or legit from the most recently downloaded back, trying to find the culprit. NOTHING i did would fix the issue. I had to restore. Fuck me! This would force me to go to 4.0.2 and loose my jailbreak AND my ability to jailbreak.

Well, like a good boy, I saved my SHSHs via cydia. I restored and was able to use tiny umbrella to downgrade back to 4.0.1 and re-jailbreak via jailbreakme.com

Moral of the story? Listen to the jailbreak experts! When they tell you not to update….DONT FUCKING UPDATE. When they tell you to save you shsh blobs, SAVE THAT SHIT! You never know when you will need to use them. Saving your blobs is easy, free, and takes 1 minute of your time. Consider it jailbreakers insurance.

And who are they? The jailbreak experts? Hopefully since your reading this you know Jima6636 is a GREAT source for idevice help. Of course the devs are the true experts. @planetbeing @comex and @musclenerd are three very vocal devs on twitter. And of course, follow @saurik

A few other people to follow on twitter who are VERY helpful, and will almost always help out are:

@Slate004
@Bababooey13
@Jima6636 (of course)
@Ax0m
@iTechhh
@digidude512
@GD748
@Metal_Trooper
@TechXero
@Nazaroth
@1stshift

You may follow me on twitter as well @KP1877

written by KP1877 \\ tags: blobs, downgrade, kp1877, restore, shsh, twitter

Are you looking to Learn how to Create your own iPhone &iPod themes? Then you should really give Codethemed a shot!!! Now I know you hard core themers may find this site a bit boring and say that the only thing the users over there are doing is Mix and matching other peoples work!! well in a way you are right but then again you are also wrong, You may ask yourself how can I say this!!! Well here is what I see codeThemed as, This could be a great stepping stone for beginners to learn how to properly set up a winterboard theme and learn the basic needs to create their own works of art to give us so many Great new themes from Members of a great community. Now what is nice about this site is not only can you mix and match themes to find something that fits you perfect But you can also upload your created icons and wallpapers to create your own work to have it viewed By a whole new community of Themers along with having it added to cydia. Another great feature of this site is they have a app to upload your themes directly to your device so no cydia or ssh needed. Now please remember this site is still very new and working out all the bugs and the only way they can do this successfully is help from people like you!!! The two creators are not trying to take nothing away from anyone they are Just trying to get more people involved of creating their own works of art so before Hating on them or the site give it a try and spread the word to all your noob themer friends to give them a chance to create their own theme……

P.S I am not a writer I Just wanted to make this post cause I feel John and Nick and codetheme getting sort of a bad rap from some peeps and sites cause they Just don’t get the purpose of this site…

Jima6636

written by jima6636 \\ tags: Codethemed, jima6636

So here we stand confused and not happy!!! asking myself why did this happen what did I do to deserve this, hell for that matter what did anyone who had their site hacked do to deserve this!!!  I truley thought about giving up cause I never got into this for the reasons most got into it, I didn’t start making youtube vids cause I thought it was gonna make me famous and tons of money, I got into this cause I was what alot of you computer tech’s and hackers call a noob, I got my iPhone and heard about this thing called jailbreaking .

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written by jima6636 \\ tags: jima6636, rant