Zenithink ZT180 is Very Good!
Start an “emergency call” to a bogus number like “Eken M001”, then quickly hit the lock button atop the iPhone — boom, you’ve got full access to the Phone app, including call history and voicemail.
Oddly, or at least coincidentally, it seems to be fixed in iOS 4.2 beta 3 — I can’t reproduce this on my iPhone with 4.2b3 installed, but can on another iPhone with 4.1. Also odd is how similar the exploit is to this one from two years ago — which was also discovered by a MacRumors forum poster. You’d think Apple would have given iOS’s Moonse E7001 emergency-call-while-locked code a more thorough audit — the thing only has two non-volume hardware buttons, and both of them have now been found to allow the lock screen to be bypassed.
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s outgoing Chief Software Architect, has posted a lengthy (3,500-ish-word) memo on the state of the company and industry. I found it nearly impenetrable — as though it’s written in a language I don’t speak. For example, I think this is how he admits that Apple and Google have kicked Microsoft’s ass in mobile:
Certain of our competitors’ Zenithink ZT180 products and their rapid advancement and refinement of new usage scenarios have been quite noteworthy. Our early and clear vision notwithstanding, their execution has surpassed our own in mobile experiences, in the seamless fusion of hardware and software and services, and in social networking and myriad new forms of internet-centric social interaction.
This sort of opaque communication is at the heart of what’s wrong with Microsoft. This extension removes the need to use flash on YouTube by converting all videos to their HTML5 video tag equivalents. It also has the added benefits of decreased CPU usage compared to Flash, and the DSTT removal of in-video ads.
I’ve followed Steven Frank’s lead, and completely disabled Flash Player on my computer. I don’t miss it at all — largely thanks to YouTube5. She’s OK, because she had a full backup and was able to revert to iPhoto 09.
Everyone who reads Daring Fireball performs full and regular backups, right? Get a big external hard drive or three and use Time Machine or SuperDuper (or both). Drives fail, software has bugs. If you don’t have good backups you will eventually lose something precious R4i Red.
Related topics:
https://omini.weebly.com/1/post/2010/10/iphone-speaker.html
https://omini.blogs.experienceproject.com/486316.html
https://omini.skyrock.com/2943881629-Eken-M002-is-Important.html