iPhone Hacking Update

There were two early morning messages from the gang at iPhone Dev Wiki:
1. They’ve been able to set up their own activation server so they can by-pass AT&T for activating iPhones.
2. They’ve cracked the encryption of the 39.dmg image and dumped the system files.
They’re now going through them and looking for vulnerabilities.

Interesting but Wrong Take on Linux-MS Deals

Joe Wilcox of Microsoft Watch has an interesting take on recent deals Microsoft has struck with companies like Novell, Linspire, Xandros, Fuji/Xerox, JBoss, and Samsung.
…Microsoft’s child-like “that’s mine” attitude about intellectual property and patent violation claims against open source doesn’t explain the company’s resistance to Red Hat. The question to ask: Whose intellectual property rights [...]