links for 2010-08-13

[randy]

• Dev-Team Blog – Fixing what Apple won't
  On Wednesday, Apple (finally) released firmware 4.0.2, which patches the very large security holes exploited by @comex in the 2nd incarnation of jailbreakme.com. The only problem is they outright abandoned iPhone2G and iPod Touch 1G users! Even though Apple acknowledges in their security update the severity of these holes, they left iPhone2G and ipt1G owners high and dry — completely vulnerable to truly malicious variants of jailbreakme (these variants aren’t out yet, but they’re sure to come!).

  Luckily for Apple, the Jailbreak community isn’t so callous. @saurik has been burning the midnight oil coding a Cydia package that will fix the holes for all devices and all firmware versions (even going back to version 2.x!). It will be released very soon, after some more testing is done. (Update: it’s available now…see update #2 below).

  (tags: jailbreak apple iphone4 iphone)
• qa-billy-corgan-smashing-pumpkins?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=spintwitter from spin.com – StumbleUpon
  But surely you don't intend to release your music for free forever?

  One song at a time really isn't that big of a deal. Does it cost money? Yeah. But it's not going to put me in the poor house. I'm enjoying it and that's the best part. I just do what I want to do. I don't ask permission. I don't have somebody telling me, "Oh, we've got to wait four weeks to put out your record because we've got to put out Paula Abdul's solo record," which is what they told us in '92. It's such bullshit. And they say it with a straight face like they're doing you a favor. I could write a funny book about my experiences in the major label system.

  (tags: smashing.pumpkins interview)

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