Apple Store vs. Microsoft Store

Same area of town, same time of day.

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Creepiest iPhone bug ever.

Some users are reporting that the iPhone randomly takes pictures of them when they make FaceTime calls:

"...minutes ago when i called my GF and i saw a "picture" of myself from today when i was at the office..."

See the thread here

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Untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 released.

The iPhone Dev Team has announced that they've officially released their fresh jailbreak tools. Their package, redsn0w and PwnageTool, have been upgraded to jailbreak Apples latest iOS 4.3.1 update.

The Dev Team states :.

The 4.3.1 untether exploit comes up thanks to Stefan Esser (@ i0n1c on twitter), a security research worker based in Germany. Stefan has a long history of vulnerability research, and ironically his first contribution to the iPhone jailbreak community was improved protection last year he beat Apple to the poke and implemented ASLR for jailbroken iPhones with his antid0te framework. Were happy to see that Stefan then turned his iPhone attention over to an untethered jailbreak exploit! .

The jailbreak currently supports the following devices :.

iPhone 3GS.
iPhone 4 (GSM).
iPod Touch 3G and 4G.
iPad 1 .
Apple TV 2G (PwntageTool only).

The clearly seen hardware missing is the iPad 2 but the Team explains that the untether bootrom exploits used in the past do.

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