Tag: binary

📅 February 18, 2014

How To Add A Binary Clock To iOS 7’s Lockscreen

if you want to replace the default iOS 7 lock screen clock with a binary clock you should check out a new tweak called Binary Clock 7 by developers Gilles Petit.

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Just a quick heads-up: if you want to replace the default iOS 7 lock screen clock with a binary clock you should check out a new tweak called Binary Clock 7 by developers Gilles Petit. The tweak comes with its own dedicated preference pane in Settings.app where you can enable/disable it on demand, hide/show the date on the lock screen under the binary clock, and pick a theme for the binary clock. The tweak also comes with 3 bundled themes 3D, Cat, and Default, but you can make your own and place them in the directory displayed in the preferences pane to apply them. Binary Clock 7 is available for $1 on Cydia Store via BigBoss repo.

If you don’t know how to read a binary clock, jump over the break to check out a video tutorial…

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📅 July 2, 2009

iPhone Security Flaw Discovered

Through a bug in the SMS in fact, the device may be attacked and then run a program without user intervention. In the case of Jailbroken devices, this program would take the Administrator privileges.

Do you know who Charlie Miller is? Well, Charlie is a hacker who, during the Pwn2Own event, took full control of a Mac in just 2 seconds using a security flaw in Safari. Impressed? Oh well…

Charlie moved his attention on the iPhone and in particular to a security problem in the management of SMS that allows hackers to send malicious code without user intervention.

Through a bug in the SMS in fact, the device may be attacked and then run a program without user intervention. In the case of Jailbroken devices, this program would take the Administrator privileges.

Mr Miller has also held (during the conference Syscan Singapore) that Apple is already at work in search of a remedy. Basically, despite the limited number of characters available in 1 SMS you can send a small program in binary form through multiple consecutive messages.

Finally, Miller argues that the Jailbreak eliminates about 80% of the protection system Apple, for which an iPhone is even more vulnerable to this problem.