iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken By Dev-Team, Public Release Still Far Away

Unless their chipset has already been exploited and jailbroken on a previous device, it takes a lot of time for the iOS jailbreaking community to come with a jailbreak for a new iOS device. The iPhone 4S and iPad 2, both of which are based on a still (bootrom) unexploited dual-core A5 chip, haven’t received a jailbreak for iOS 5 yet, but it appears that they’ll be getting one soon.

The news comes directly from MuscleNerd – famous iPhone hacker and member of the iPhone Dev Team – in the form of a tweet in which he shares a screenshot of a jailbroken iPhone 4S on iOS 5.

From Twitter:

VERY preliminary 4S JB: twitpic.com/76vcp4 twitpic.com/76vct2 (Huge missing pieces prevent public release. LOTS of work left)

As you can see from MuscleNerd’s tweet, the jailbreak is “very preliminary” and is still some time away from a public release. There are no ETAs for this so we expect you all to show a little patience and let the Dev Team do their work.

Although we believe him completely, the two photos that MuscleNerd shared in his tweet verify his claim of the iPhone 4S jailbreak. The first screenshot shows root access on the iPhone 4S (codenamed N94) on iOS 5 whereas the second screenshot shows Cydia 1.1.1 running on iPhone 4,1 (which is another name for the 4S) with a Siri prompt at the bottom.


The iPhone 4S jailbreak is gonna be big when it is released. iPhone and iPad users all like being able to change things on their devices to the way they want and when the jailbreak hits for these devices you are gonna see a big upraor for the demand for jailbreaking.


iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken By Dev-Team, Public Release Still Far Away

A Guide to Sniffing Out Passwords and Cookies (and How to Protect Yourself Against It)

Now they are giving out a guide to get other people's passwords and user names. The entire article was teaching someone to sniff out passwords and user names over the network that they are on. Firesheep and Wireshark are the 2 programs that they tell you about. Even listening to them tell you how to do it, you won't be able to understand the programs as simple as they put it. But the writers of the article do redeem themselves by telling you how to use the tools to protect yourself.

A Guide to Sniffing Out Passwords and Cookies (and How to Protect Yourself Against It)

Will Windows 8 block Linux installs?

Windows 8's Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot protocol could lead to eight-second boot times, but it could also be used to keep users from loading Linux on a Windows 8 PC.

Microsoft cheered Windows users earlier this month when it demonstrated the upcoming Windows 8 operating system booting in eight seconds. Part of the technology behind the fast boots, however, could enable Microsoft and its PC vendor partners to block users from loading Linux on a Windows 8 PC.

Microsoft recommends using the latest Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot protocol to achieve the best boot results. Released in April, the new UEFI includes a secure boot protocol intended to block rootkit infections by requiring the entry of secure keys before allowing executables or drivers to be loaded onto the device. The protocol is required for PCs running Windows 8 clients in order to conform to the Windows 8 logo program.



Microsoft has changed the standard boot programming language from UNIX to UEFI. UEFI may allow the PC to boot faster but if someone wants to run Linux will have a harder time running it. Linux creators wanted to released signed version of the Linux OS but due to the Grub licensing issues, this would require a non-GPL boot loader.


Will Windows 8 block Linux installs?

Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female?

Over at CNN, and in reflection on the release of Siri, they pose the question: Why are computer voices mostly female?

Scientific studies show that people find women’s voices more pleasing than men’s. It’s much easier to find a female voice that everyone likes than a male voice that everyone likes,” said Stanford University Professor Clifford Nass, author of “The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships.” “It’s a well-established phenomenon that the human brain is developed to like female voices.”

Male voices did not want to be use after the movie 2001: A space Odyssey. The companies go through a casting for female voices. A female's voice is more soothing to the main population's preference. Personally I would rather hear a women's voice because hearing a guy's voice talk to me from my computer would be like a guy's car talking as a guy it would just be weird to me.

Why computer voices are mostly female Article