Posted by planetbeing on under level interface, extence, iphone, reas, dev team, new image, out of the blue, svn, parser, vulnerability, futzing, lt, ibss, stock | 
So how did I manage to FIX the problem I mentioned earlier? The reason I was so vague on the details is that I used a confidential iBoot vulnerability that we didn't want Apple to know even existed! This allowed me to bootstrap openiboot directly from a stock iBSS that was loaded through DFU mode. I still can't tell you exactly what it is, but since geohot already leaked the existence of it, I figure I can tell you it exists and is what I used. :)
Then, it was a simple matter of using openiboot's NOR engine to restore everything. I even can use the new image list parser and AES engine to have a very nice high level interface to the image list, allowing me to "pwn" just with openiboot; no ramdisk futzing around!
The AES code has been in SVN for awhile, but to anyone following jailbreaking news, it's probably obvious why I suddenly, out of the blue, decided to reverse it and write it. Haha. So the night that I committed the AES code, is the night the Dev Team first decrypted the new img3 shit. :)
Tagi: level interface, extence, iphone, reas, dev team, new image, out of the blue, svn, parser, vulnerability, futzing, lt, ibss, stock
Posted by on under extence, high art, internet company, behemoth, oliver stone, internet media, multi media, ceo |
Oliver Stone was paid 75,000 dollars by an Internet media behemoth to discuss what's in store for web multi-media in 2010. Little did they know that "high-art" Oliver Stone would piss all over the concept that web videos are movies. Watch the CEO of the company nervously jerking around as Stone disses the very existence of the company.
Tagi: extence, high art, internet company, behemoth, oliver stone, internet media, multi media, ceo
Posted by on under news aggregators, extence, compas, standout, blogosphere, heading, mystery, job |
The internet (the blogosphere to be precise) is still a bit of a mystery to many in tech and entertainment. It's weird to think that companies whose job it is to reach tech-savvy consumers aren't using this tool correctly, but it's also no secret that the biggest and most influential companies are often the slowest to adapt. At any rate, they're learning, but some are learning faster than others. Here I chronicle just a few standout cases. Note that many companies are bunched under the PR heading, which is in the second half of this post for reasons which will become obvious. Also, it's a bit awkward talking about the "new media" right after I
denied its existence, but for the purposes of this post please just consider it to mean big blogs, news aggregators, and social or bottom-up media.
Tagi: news aggregators, extence, compas, standout, blogosphere, heading, mystery, job
Posted by on under comic film, boing boing, funny commercial, radical media, extence, proprietary os, sales messages, coue, os users, enemy of the state, jokey, office users, ad agency, grat, ad campaign, frolic, seinfeld, openoffice, ubuntu, endorsements |
Microsoft's ad agency Traffik/@radical.media produced this trailer for a godawful thriller based on Office 2010, a kind of 24 meets Enemy of the State thing. As a short comic film, it's a real success -- I laughed aloud at least twice -- but I'm not sure about its value as an advertisement. The humor is in-jokey, aimed at people who already know pretty much everything they need to know about Microsoft and its products and who tend to have their minds made up already (I haven't used Office since switching to the excellent OpenOffice.org years ago, and haven't missed it once; most of the Office users I know upgrade when they get a new version gratis with a new PC). So I suppose that this thing is meant to alert avid Office users to the existence of Office 2010, an hypothesis that is further borne out by the absence of any product info in the ad. Still, if someone produced a video this funny for the next Ubuntu release, and managed to work in a couple of actual compelling sales messages aimed at proprietary OS users, I'd applaud. Office 2010: The Movie Previously:More Griping About Advertising: Bing Edition - Boing Boing Funny commercial for Microsoft's Songsmith - Boing Boing Super-sexy Windows XP ad resurrected by Nerve - Boing Boing Seinfeld and celebrity computer endorsements - Boing Boing iMac and PC frolic peacefully in new MSFT ad campaign - Boing Boing (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)...
Tagi: comic film, boing boing, funny commercial, radical media, extence, proprietary os, sales messages, coue, os users, enemy of the state, jokey, office users, ad agency, grat, ad campaign, frolic, seinfeld, openoffice, ubuntu, endorsements
Posted by on under boing boing, pierre schaeffer, th album, extence, lger, chest voice, vocal chords, anet, comex, tape recording, perfect sense, sgs, two girls, cameroun, co founder, musiques, peoe, senses, sg, lips |
This album from the legenday Ocora label is really one of my favorites on the planet. When I first heard these two girls sing I had to be actively convinced it wasn't just pieces of a tape recording that had been spliced together! (Ocora co-founder Pierre Schaeffer also pioneered the early tape-splicing music movement known as Musique Concrete, so I wasn't totally nuts): Akaheze par deux jeune filles I just wrote about the amazing ability of some birds to sing multiple notes at once. This woman's ability to switch rapidly between her head and chest voice is totally daring anyone to say humans couldn't defy all odds and learn to do it too: Akazehe par une jeune fille The liner notes for these songs say that this woman is using her lips as a reed. If you listen carefully, you can hear the switch over to her normal voice. It's a traditional kind of song for mourning: Ubuhuha 1 Ubuhuha 2 Unfortunately, like many on Ocora, this album is exceedingly rare. Let this be another call for re-issues! The cover of the Musiques du Cameroun album is worth tracking down all on its own... This post is part of a series about music that disorients the senses. I've found that some of the most amazing and jarring auditory illusions are not the usual scientifically distilled or synthesized ones, they're often found in folk music and made by people's voices. Of course, in a way, it makes perfect sense - the vocal chords are some of the most complex and advanced musical instruments in existence. They are ubiquitously available, and we've been experimenting with them for longer than any other sound-making implement....
Tagi: boing boing, pierre schaeffer, th album, extence, lger, chest voice, vocal chords, anet, comex, tape recording, perfect sense, sgs, two girls, cameroun, co founder, musiques, peoe, senses, sg, lips
