Why do these people still wait in line to buy a new iPhone? Or a new console? Or a new game? What’s the point? Do they think they’re going to be more special than the rest of the world for 24 hours? A week perhaps? This video tries to get some answers.
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Apple’s decision to build a gold-colored iPhone 5s is about more than just offering another color to consumers. For one thing, the margins are quite high on the device, and the more colors it offers, the more money it can make. But there’s more to the gold iPhone than meets the eye at first blush: […]
If true, this is really weird. This video shows a Japanese iPhone 5S user using his nipples to lock and unlock the new iPhone 5S, which has a fingerprint sensor built-in. Apparently, the sensor works on nipples and toes!
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If you can’t be bothered with those wire clips that help keep your earphone cord from getting all tangled up, then maybe you’ll find the Cordli more convenient and maybe easier to use.
Cordli cases are made for the iPhone 4/4S and 5 and have deep grooves at the back where you’re supposed to push the wire in. It effectively shortens your headphone wires so you won’t have to twist them around your device when you’re using them to deal with the extra length.
The Cordli was designed by Aki Attawia. It’s up for funding on Kickstarter through October 9th, where a minimum pledge of $15(USD) will get you one of your very own.
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Just the other day we came across an iOS 7 vulnerability that will let creeps see your photos and even share them from behind the lockscreen
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You can expect three things every time a new iOS version comes along: fresh aesthetics, features and, by the looks of it, ways to bypass a locked screen. In iOS 7’s case, this is the second security flaw unearthed since it’s launched: An iPhone user named Karam Daoud recently discovered that you can dial any number on the Emergency call page from a locked homescreen. If you press the green phone button repeatedly after keying in a number, the screen turns black with an Apple logo, and the call goes through. We’ve tested it out on different devices, and while it doesn’t work all the time, the point is that it sometimes does. There’s no apparent way to disable Emergency calls, but Apple reportedly told Daoud it’ll issue a patch later. We’ve reached out to Cupertino for a statement, and we’ll inform you once we hear back.
Meanwhile, if you’ve been hearing about another supposed iOS 7 exploit that allows Siri to make calls, send text messages and post to social networks from a locked screen, don’t worry too much. It’s not actually a bug — just go to Settings > General > Passcode Lock > Allow access when locked, then switch Siri off. After you do that, no mischievous sibling should be able to post embarrassing status updates on your Facebook account. That is, unless you do it yourself after a night of drunken revelry.
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Your new iPhone may be faster, more colorful, or have a handful of new features. But that doesn’t mean you should banish your old one to the back of the junk drawer.
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The passcode can’t die yet. The iPhone 5s’s Touch ID fingerprint security system can be unlocked with your finger even if you’re asleep. That means a jealous lover could hold your phone to your thumb while you slumber and read all your texts, call logs, emails, and more.
Apple confirms that a dead thumb won’t work. Chloroforming the victim might, but international spies will have no luck cutting off a Prime Minister’s thumb to access their secure files / selfies. Apple also doesn’t send a copy of fingerprints back to its servers, and instead stores them in a “secure enclave” in its A7 processor designed to be inaccessible by hackers or other apps.
Apple worked hard to make the the Touch ID security system easy to use. So easy a 5s can be unlocked by a cat, your toe, or even your…member, if it’s registered with your phone. The real issue, though, is that Touch ID has no way of telling if someone is passed out.
Frat dudes, heads up. You could wake up from a night of drinking to find your bros messaged all your exes and creatively rewrote your Facebook profile. Yet the biggest threat is likely that of misuse by significant others.
It’s common to hear the story of a suspicious girlfriend or boyfriend who went through their guy/girl’s unlocked phone while he was asleep, found them flirting with someone else, and dumped them. Numeric passcodes would prevent this.
But Touch ID is vulnerable to “sleephacking.”
As long as someone knows what finger[s] you’ve registered with Touch ID, they can pick your phone up off the nightstand, press it against your sleeping finger, and voilà, the phone unlocks.
If you have shady personal stuff in your phone, you should…not have shady personal stuff in your phone. And if your significant other will rifle through your phone while you sleep, you’ve got bigger problems. But if you’re stuck sleeping by someone unscrupulous, you might want to go into your settings, enable passcode lock, and delete the fingerprints you have on file.
Really this all boils down to the idea that no password that humans have developed yet is both convenient and 100 percent secure. Not long strings of characters, not facial recognition, and not fingerprints. The lack of perfect digital security has become part of our culture — a risk and inconvenience no one is above for now. On that note, I’ll leave you with this touching painting/poem by graffiti artist Banksy:
US Senator Al Franken has waded into controversy over Apple’s Touch ID biometric system on the iPhone 5s, challenging the Cupertino firm to address his security concerns about stolen fingerprints and data privacy. In an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook – in which he’s quick to point out that he himself uses an […]
As with all upgrades to a new operating system on the device you use most during the day, with iOS 7 there’s a set of features not all iPhone users are going to like. Lucky you, there’s a way to switch quite a few (if not nearly all) of the odds and ends back off, […]
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