Posts Tagged ‘root

For some people, a fancy new smartphone isn’t enough: they want to get into the belly of the beast and customize to their heart’s content. Hence, the popularity of jailbreaking iPhones to add unapproved apps and use an alternative network. That hacker’s mentality has now extended to the Droid, with one smart modder announcing that [...]

A couple of weeks ago, the first iPhone worm appeared, spreading on jailbroken devices with the SSH application installed (vulnerability being the fact that many users haven’t changed the default root password). As far as worms go, this one was quite benign, merely “rickrolling” users; i.e., changing the background image on the device to an [...]

This is a follow-up to a follow-up. You dedicated Bit Rebels readers will know where this is going. Move Over Pepsi, Coke is on BitRebels & Awesome Peps Commercials are a  couple of great articles written by my fellow rebels. Well, I have root beer on the mind and I hate to tell you ladies but [...]


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