OS 10.7 Lion on the horizon.

Waiting for Lion to roll out to the proletariat.




Rawr!


-Jason Yeaman
iDoiDevices.com

The TWC App of unfathomable dumbness....

It's nothing new. Application developers implementing methods to discourage those of us who want a little more freedom than Apple gives in an official firmware from accessing their applications. But you have to wonder...what kind of skewed version of reality does the Project Manager for the Time Warner Cable app live in?











https://metrics.timewarnercable.com

Did he really believe that his application was so l33t, that the user viewing the above would reevaluate his priorities and restore his iDevice....just so the Time Warner Cable application would work? Think of it from the perspective of an iPad 2 jail breaker, who is also a TWC cable subscriber. He waited weeks and weeks, scrubbing every iOS forum he could find for some new whisper of hope for the freedom all the other iOS platforms have, stalking @Comex to see if there was anything new on the pending jailbreakme 3.0 release.

When the exploit was finally released, he goes to watch some cable TV on his iPad, a service he already pays for and, now his cable provider is telling him he must return to prison to watch Cable.










Really?

I would have laughed my ass off at the guy who actually believed I would curtail the way in which I use my iPad......because of a TV watching application.

It's like the owner hanging a sign on a the glass window of his store that is full of stuff you already paid for (like your TWCable content) which says:

"You can't have your stuff here. We don't allow our Paying Customers who 'pick locks' in order to exit the prison they are trapped in to have their stuff. Please go back to hoosegow, where you can be my punk, and do what you are told."

Do what you are told....


I figure there are 3 kinds of people here in this scenario:

1: There are people who comply and sit when given the command. They don't care because they are content to be trapped in their aesthetically pleasing Apple prison, staffed by guards who are polite, knowledgeable, and have the highest rating for inmate service than any other prison. The only time they see that sign, is when they read about it.

2: There are people who read the sign, pick the lock on door, replace that sign with one that says "Open!", turn on the lights and hang the keys on a nail out side for anyone who wants to use them:









(great hack Adrian. Tested and confirmed on iPad2)


3: Then there are dudes like me who write 'customer=priority 1' on a brick and throw it through the window in protest of the message:












If nothing else, to give a clue to the genius who wrote it knowing I would see it, and still having the stones to tell me what is and is not supported on my gear, and then telling me what to do.

I'm the decider. I choose what is and is not supported on my gear, and I don't appreciate modification detection code running on my gear, without at least being asked nicely.










I am not a cable subscriber. I don't have anything against subscription media per se, in fact I'm a digital subscriber to services like The Daily, Netflicks and of course iTunes through AppleTV2, my Mac and the range of iDevices. I don't have an opinion of Time Warner Cable services, because I'm not their customer. However, if I am put in the position where I must choose copper infrastructure because there is no other means of high bandwidth access (I imagine Hell is like this), I will go with TWCs competitor, even if they are slower and more expensive, simply because TWC shows the capacity to deny their paid subscribers access to media they are contractually obligated to serve.

All this is based upon a different philosophy of acceptable use. iOS security policy modification Community has been unobjectively labeled and vilified as a source for code piracy, digital intellectual property theft and unfairly described as a security risk...even called 'Illegal' at one point by Apple. The fact is, a properly secured and patched Jailbroken iDevice is more secure than the one you buy from Apple. The user land exploit deployed in the Jailbreakme 3.0 code injection proves it. Only jail broken iDevices that have been patched are currently safe from further exploits. Those in Apple Prison must (contently) wait a few more days for a firmware release before they are no longer vulnerable. Alas, I digress....













Now, TWC will give their jail broken subscribers... paid customers the content that they promised at the beginning of the relationship. And they will serve it up through the iOS app to jailbreakers whether they like it or not.

Thanks for reading my 'brick'.

-Jason
iDoiDevices.com

Jailbreakme 3.0 goes live

The long awaited and much anticipated jailbreak tool from Comex has been released and is live. Using an exploit from i0nic, this mobile safari based jailbreak will allow any iOS 4.3.3 iDevice to install Cydia, and all the goodness that comes with it.




Don't forget to secure the device if you install Open SSH, change the default root and mobile passwords from 'alpine' to something...ANYTHING else, via mobile Terminal.

>SU root
>login
>root
>alpine
>passwd

Then enter your new password twice. Rinse and repeat for the mobile account. Patch up the PDF exploit and you should be good to go. You should save your ShSh blobs as well via Cydia or TinyUmbrella. The DevTeam has passed the word that the recursive FW procedure that is accomplished by using an alternate code signing method may not be an option over the horizon due to Apple adapting to the Tools and methods used by the jailbreak community, but it doesn't hurt and may assist you in the short term.

The projected timeframe for Apple to patch i0nics exploit is 5 days, therefore DO NOT update your firmware once jailbroken, especially if you rely on ANY unlock, your baseband WILL get modified if you use iTunes to migrate to official Apple firmware and you WILL LOSE your jailbreak.

More to follow.....

Good luck.

Jason Yeaman
www.iDoiDevices.com