The Red Sox win their second World Series in four years. Congrats to the Red Sox!
Monday, October 29, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
A Poisoned Apple?
Posted on 10/23/2007 08:24:00 PMby TC with No comments
Well wired has a lovely little article about the fantastic, wonderful iPhone. It's titled "IPhone's Security Rivals Windows 95 (No, That's Not Good)"
It generally discusses the fact that all applications run on the iPhone as "root" or for you non-techies, it runs with full system privileges which means each application is essentially "god" on the phone and can do anything. This means that a hacker could "cause a phone to call numbers without the user's knowledge, seize text messages and a list of received and sent calls, turn the phone into a listening device, track the user's location through nearby WiFi access points, or instruct the phone to snap photos of the user's surroundings -- including any companions who may be in view of the camera lens. "
Now before someone out there says "well what about the Windows Mobile OS?" here's a nice document to read about it. Very few applications run as "privileged" which I assume is analgous to "root" and most run as "normal" which means it can't access protected areas of the phone and must be signed by a certificate.
I'm sure Apple will fix this situation before allowing 3rd parties to wreak havok in their little sandbox but let's hope for Apple that ingenious hackers don't find a way to expliot things between now and then. Oh wait... they've already begun.
It generally discusses the fact that all applications run on the iPhone as "root" or for you non-techies, it runs with full system privileges which means each application is essentially "god" on the phone and can do anything. This means that a hacker could "cause a phone to call numbers without the user's knowledge, seize text messages and a list of received and sent calls, turn the phone into a listening device, track the user's location through nearby WiFi access points, or instruct the phone to snap photos of the user's surroundings -- including any companions who may be in view of the camera lens. "
Now before someone out there says "well what about the Windows Mobile OS?" here's a nice document to read about it. Very few applications run as "privileged" which I assume is analgous to "root" and most run as "normal" which means it can't access protected areas of the phone and must be signed by a certificate.
I'm sure Apple will fix this situation before allowing 3rd parties to wreak havok in their little sandbox but let's hope for Apple that ingenious hackers don't find a way to expliot things between now and then. Oh wait... they've already begun.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Gotta love J. K. Rowling
At a recent appearence at Carnegie Hall, J. K. Rowling was taking questions from the audience when a young fan asked if Dumbledore finds "true love". Rowling then responded that Dumbledore was gay.
Well if that doesn't get the religious right groups in a tizzy, I don't know what will.
She also gives the answers to a number of questions and the The Leaky Cauldron has a full transcript, but here's the question about Dumbledore.
Well if that doesn't get the religious right groups in a tizzy, I don't know what will.
She also gives the answers to a number of questions and the The Leaky Cauldron has a full transcript, but here's the question about Dumbledore.
Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?
My truthful answer to you... I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] ... Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extend, but he met someone as brilliant as he was, and rather like Bellatrix he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly, terribly let down by him. Yeah, that's how i always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I knew a girl once, whose hair... [laughter]. I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, "Dumbledore's gay!" [laughter] If I'd known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago!
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