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Theme Gallery for Jailbroken iTouch
The following images are some of the cooler themes that are available for a 1.1.3 jailbroken iTouch running Summerboard.
Enjoy!
Breaking out of Jail Again: Simple iTouch Jailbreak to 1.1.3 on Windows
Yes. I know 1.1.4 is available. I’m working on it…but i’ve spent quite a bit of time experimenting with the different techniques for a smooth 1.1.3 jailbreak on Windows and this seems to be the best by far. This article explains the easiest step i’ve found yet for jailbreaking your 1.1.3 iTouch.
Amazon’s Secret Plan to Take Over the Internet
Ok. So here is the question. Where can you buy books, music, movies and the infrastructure to build the next MySpace, Flickr or YouTube?
Amazon.com has the worlds biggest retail site. That takes quite a bit of infrastructure to run a site like that…right? But an infrastructure like that is also a valuable commodity if you can monetize it…Amazon seems to be trying to do just that. They want to provide the infrastructure that will power the next wave of web sites. The amazing part of the Amazon Web Services offering is that there are no setup charges or other up-front costs required to setup a world-class scalable web application. If you can imagine it, you can build it…on the Amazon framework.
So here is what they are actually offering and what it means.
New Forums
To promote the two way discussion of various topics, i’ve installed the phpBB forum software on the site. You can see the new forums here.
More Adventures in Jailbreaking or “Help! I own a $300 brick!”
Until my last post, I didn’t realize how popular the iTouch really was. I also didn’t realize how frustrated people are that Apple is not opening up the OS for the iTouch and iPhone and letting users install 3rd party apps. I have gotten two types of responses to my previous post. The type that I really appreciate are the ones where individuals are relieved to have finally found a coherent description of the steps for jailbreaking their iTouch. The other type is interesting. I have actually had individuals blame me for their iTouch not working. I’ve approved the comments that I could. Some of them were so inappropriate that i couldn’t approve them.
Adventures in Jailbreaking a 1.1.3 iTouch in 2 simple steps
I know there are hundreds of sites that describe how to upgrade, download, break in and break out of iPhones and iTouches. I was intending to wait until the official release of the iPhone SDK because I simply didn’t have time to try and repair my iTouch after I turned it into a brick through the unavoidable experimentation with different sometimes vague directions on how to jailbreak your device.
JSON vs XML
For awhile now, XML has been the “way”. Everything speaks XML. Tons of tools are available for doing pretty much anything you want with XML. It is such a cool acronym that it is even being used in other acronyms like AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML).
Let’s talk about XML for a minute. It allows you to specify pretty much any data structure you can imagine and validate that data using off-the-shelf tools. If you can create a DTD (Document Type Definition)Â or an XSD (XML Schema) then you can use XML to dramatically improve data interchange processes in any system or application. There is no doubt about it. XML is great at what it does. But…it has a problem.
The Experiment – Part 4 – What Countries Are Doing the Most Hacking
I’m still wrestling with the best way to represent the data from my Honeypot experiment. The plan is to create a color-code map to represent the data in different ways. I’m looking at software like GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) and Quantum GIS which uses the formidable GRASS open-source GIS system. I’ve even started dumping data into Google Base (more on this in an upcoming article) just to explore that as an option since it heavily tied into Google Maps. Regardless, I have not settled on a presentation format for the data. Once I do, i’ll start updating it regularly. “The Experiment” is so interesting to me that I’ve decided to continue the honeypot and perhaps even launch more honeypots.
Until i’ve settled on a presentation format, i’m simply going to post some of the statistics here.
| Country | Percent |
| United States | 37% |
| United Kingdom | 10% |
| Brazil | 6% |
| Germany | 5% |
| Morocco | 3% |
| Russian Federation | 3% |
| Spain | 3% |
| Mexico | 2% |
| Australia | 2% |
| Canada | 2% |
| Sweden | 2% |
| Other | 26% |
Hacking Attempts by Country of Origin
The Experiment – Part 3 – Hackers Exposed
I’ve now been running my honeypot for some period of time and while i’m not sure what conclusions you can draw from the results, I can certainly say they are interesting. Over the course of the next week, i’m going to be posting the results of the analysis of the log files and hacker tracking system that I installed for the purpose of this experiment. I’ll include summaries of the types of attacks (see chart below), countries of origin, persistence (how many attempts were made by a single hacker), and hacker CQ (cleverness quotient). The CQ is a measure of both the methods and types of attacks by a single hacker including analysis of probes, whether they attempted to cover their tracks using a proxy and whether they actually did cover their tracks by using an anonymous proxy.
More to come…