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Submitted by libervisco on Fri, 2007-10-19 11:40. Tags:

 apple  free software  gnu  iphone  linux  security  Technology

As Apple's Steve Jobs is announcing that they suddenly "want native third-party applications on the iPhone", something its users have been yearning to have ever since they started buying these phones (even if it meant hacking them), Steve justifies their prior resistance to this kind of openness by security threats. As he says, they are "trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once — provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc."

Submitted by libervisco on Fri, 2006-10-06 23:37. Tags:

 apple  drm  dvd jon  fairplay  ipod  mp3 player  Technology

Famous for his reverse engineering, an author of the DeCSS content de-scrambling software "DVD Jon" is playing a slightly different tune now. Rather than working against DRM as he has been known to do, he is now apparently experimenting with the idea of using DRM to his and supposedly customers advantage.