Conversations - 27th October 2012

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." - Paul Valery

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Ken: i feel like selling off my iphone 4
but then
i wouldnt have a device to jailbreak then
i have a ipod touch 2g...but tt's pretty useless besides using it as a
music player

Me: why not jailbreak the new iphone

Ken: nope
the one used for live use i wun jailbreak

Me: ...

Ken: security concerns
unless i fully reverse engineer the jailbroken tool and knows exactly
what every line of code does to the kernel
but for the ipone4 its ok since its "decomissioned"

Me: what if apple put a rootkit inside your iPhone 5

Ken: i'm assuming tt wun happen

Me: when you assume you make an ass...

Ken: of coz u buy product from them u gotta trust em
otherwise its as good as saying what if microsoft owns us all

Me: what about carrier iq in iphone4

Ken: mebbe they have a hidden proprietery protocol tt allow
them to RDP into any MS OS in the world

Me: yeah why dont you go and use linux
the source code is open to all
no chance of hidden code

Ken: haha
i do use linux too

Me: use it as your primary OS

Ken: tt's a good idea
mebbe i shld


Someone on chasing a guy: do u think im devaluing myself :(

Me: zzz
if you value yourself you will see yourself as a subject with agency
and free will

Someone: HAHAHA
i love that answer

Me: yeah. don't objectify yourself


Ken: Serving Up Malicious PDFs Through SQL Injection - Dark Reading
Morale of the story: make sure u use a virtual machine to open embedded pdf files using web browser

Me: BBC News - US 'foils new underwear bomb plot' by al-Qaeda in Yemen
moral of the story: they should ban us from wearing underwear onto planes