There’s a presentation at the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress on
Unlocking FileVault, wherein they’ve reverse engineered some parts of the private Frameworks used to implement DiskImages and Apple’s 128 bit AES encryption.
Archive for December, 2006
Unlocking FileVault
Sunday, December 31st, 2006My Mac Christmas
Saturday, December 30th, 2006My Mac related Christmas gifts this year were a copy of iWoz, (the autobiography of Steve “Woz” Wozniak), and an iTunes Store gift voucher.
Looks like Apple needs some peak capacity planning though, the iTunes Store was unreliable due to the load of lots of people trying to presumably fill up their Christmas iPods.
One small leap for an iPod…
Friday, December 29th, 2006one giant leap for podkind. Spotted aboard the International Space Station.
Will there be a (Product) Red iPod for Mars though?
New Mac v PC ads
Thursday, December 28th, 2006In the spirit of the holiday season Apple has created a new Mac v PC ad. It’s the one named “Goodwill” (look for the Santa hats). Looks like there’s some other ads I haven’t seen before there too. QuickTime, of course.
January - month of Mac OS X security holes
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006It appears that the Month of Kernel Bugs folks are going to be targetting Mac OS X kernel bugs in January.
Even more annoyingly, January is the month when lots of staff are still likely to be on holidays, so least likely to be able to respond rapidly. Hopefully lots of their computers will be off though (reducing greenhouse gas emissions), perhaps limiting the damage.
Then again, having managed to kernel panic my Mac from within QuickTime for Java the other day, I say bring on the fixes Apple!
Speaking of QuickTime for Java and Security holes, Apple released Security Update 2006-008 which patches a hole which could allow a QuickTime for Java applet to grab an image from your iSight and upload it to the web server. More discussion and a demo link here on Macslash. Assuming you haven’t installed the update yet.
iPhone released - by Linksys
Friday, December 22nd, 2006Tired of waiting for Apple (and hoping to cash in on some free press and search queries no doubt), Linksys have released iPhone.
It looks like it supports WiFi 802.11b/g and also has a wireless base station for routing non-VOIP calls through the Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS).
Save 20% with MacSanta
Thursday, December 21st, 2006The MacSanta site gives a 20% discount on software purchased from participating developers using the coupon code MACSANTA. Developers include Rogue Amoeba (Audio Hijack Pro), Flying Meat (VoodooPad), and Bare Bones Software (BBEdit), and Advenio (Mac Gourmet). There’s even an RSS Feed to keep you updated as more discounts become available.
There’s even a poem “A visit from MacSanta”.
Will it blend?
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006This iPod video gave me the most laughs I’ve had this week. Thanks to Andrew!
Stay away from the SyncServices folder
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006Apple’s technote 301920, “Mac OS X 10.4: Stay away from the SyncServices folder” begins:
As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder in Mac OS X 10.4.
