IPhone Hacker

Name              -   George Francis Hotz 
DOB               -    October 2, 1989
Nick Names   -    geohot, million75


About Hotz: 
 
                    Hotz is an American hacker known for unlocking the iPhone, allowing the phone to be used with other wireless carriers, contrary to AT&T and Apple's intent. He is also noted for hacking the PlayStation 3 and subsequently being sued by and settling with Sony.


His Achievements:


Hacking Apple IOS Devices:

                                           In June, 2007, Hotz became the first person to jailbreak an iPhone.According to Hotz's blog, he traded his unlocked 8 GB iPhone to Terry Daidone, the founder of Certicell, for a Nissan 350Z and three 8 GB iPhones. Hotz said he wanted to give the iPhones to the other members of the team who created the hack with him. Hotz's hardware-based unlocking technique has largely been replaced by software unlocking that does not require dis-assembly of the iPhone. On February 8, 2008, Hotz developed the software unlock for the iPhone's new bootloader version 4.6 that was previously only achievable with a "testpoint based hardware unlock". On July 3, 2009, Hotz announced purplera1n, the first public software exploit for jailbreaking the iPhone 3GS. Details were posted on his blog.

On October 13, 2009, at 3:20AM Hotz released blackra1n, a jailbreak for all iPhones and iPod Touches.

On March 27, 2010, Hotz established a website for his newest jailbreak software, limera1n.

On October 8, 2010, Hotz confirmed he was releasing a Jailbreak on 10/11/10, one day after the release of Greenpois0n.

On October 11, 2010, Hotz released what appears to be the final version of his jailbreak (RC1b). Hotz also put on his website that the Mac version of this jailbreak is "coming in 7 years", but was released about 2 weeks later.

Hacking the PlayStation 3:

                                                  Towards the end of 2009, Hotz announced his efforts to hack the Sony PlayStation 3, a console widely regarded as being the only fully locked and secure system of the seventh generation era. Hotz opened a blog to document his progress, and five weeks later, on January 22, 2010, he announced that he had successfully hacked the machine by enabling himself read and write access to the machine's system memory and having hypervisor level access to the machine's processor.

On January 14, 2011, Hotz appeared in an interview on G4′s The Loop, where he explained why he jailbroke the Sony PlayStation 3. 

Employment By Facebook: 

                                 On June 27, 2011, it was reported that Hotz had been hired by Facebook. However, according to a CNET article, he had actually been employed since May, which was confirmed by Facebook. It is unknown what his role at the company was. In January 2012, Hotz stopped working at Facebook.

 

Other Accomplishments:

He was a finalist at the 2004 ISEF competition in Portland OR with his project "The Mapping Robot".

Hotz competed in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a science competition for high school students, where his project, entitled "I want a Holodeck", received awards and prizes in several categories.

In March 2008, PC World magazine listed George as one of the top 10 Overachievers under 21.

In May 2012, Hotz was the subject of a feature article in The New Yorker.

 

Pranav Mistry's SIXTH SENSE Technology

'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. 

                The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.

The SixthSense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system. The map application lets the user navigate a map displayed on a nearby surface using hand gestures, similar to gestures supported by Multi-Touch based systems, letting the user zoom in, zoom out or pan using intuitive hand movements. The drawing application lets the user draw on any surface by tracking the fingertip movements of the user’s index finger. SixthSense also recognizes user’s freehand gestures (postures). For example, the SixthSense system implements a gestural camera that takes photos of the scene the user is looking at by detecting the ‘framing’ gesture. The user can stop by any surface or wall and flick through the photos he/she has taken. SixthSense also lets the user draw icons or symbols in the air using the movement of the index finger and recognizes those symbols as interaction instructions. For example, drawing a magnifying glass symbol takes the user to the map application or drawing an ‘@’ symbol lets the user check his mail. The SixthSense system also augments physical objects the user is interacting with by projecting more information about these objects projected on them. For example, a newspaper can show live video news or dynamic information can be provided on a regular piece of paper. The gesture of drawing a circle on the user’s wrist projects an analog watch. 

The current prototype system costs approximate $350 to build. Instructions on how to make your own prototype device can be found here (coming soon).

Rolling Laptop

TRULY AMAZING...!!

A Computer that can roll....!!!!
wow...!!

The D-roll Laptop is designed like an
artists tube, which contains a roll up
OLED screen and a cool slide out
keyboard, it also has a mouse and a
web camera which are used as the end
caps for the case.

D-Roll, which stands for “digital roll,” is
a concept from designer Hao Hua.
It
features one long cylindrical base from
which the screen unfurls in one
direction and the keyboard in another.

When rolled, you can use the attached straps to carry around the D-Roll in
classic purse fashion or put it in a
cylindrical case.

This could be pure science fiction but
the idea behind the D-Roll concept isn’t
too far from being possible.

Sony has already shown off rollable LED screens
which are expensive today but should
come down inprice once they start to
become more standard.

We also have SOC (System on a Chip)
computers, which are tiny computer boards that manage all the necessary
aspects of a computer (like processing,
graphics, internet and memory) on
silicon which enables smallercases and
odd sizes.

Duqu Trojan developed in unknown programming language

Researchers at Kaspersky have reached out for assistance after an investigation into the Duqu Trojan uncovered a section that is written in an unknown programming language.

The Russian security company says this new information could help them discover how the worm was able to communicate with its Command and Control (C&C) servers. The C&C servers essentially tell the worm what to do once it has accessed a system.

While the majority of Duqu is written in C++, the Framework was not and was not compiled with Microsoft’s Visual C++ 2008. Other languages ruled out include Python, Java, Objective C, Ada and Lua.“Given the size of the Duqu project, it’s possible that an entirely different team was responsible for creating the Duqu Framework as opposed to the team that created the drivers and wrote the system infection exploits,” said Alexander Gostev, chief security expert at Kaspersky Lab, in a statement.

The mysterious code could be the work of a separate collaborator, indiciating that multiple parties worked to develop the infection. Kaspersky is hoping that someone in the programming community will recognize it and come forward to identify it. Identification of the language could help analysts build a profile of DuQu’s authors, particularly if they can tie the language to a group of people known to use this specialized programming language or even to people who were behind its development.

Duqu first emerged in September 2011 and is thought to have been written by the same people behind the infamous Stuxnet worm, which targeted Iran's nuclear facilities and attempted to steal highly sensitive information. Duqu worked along the same lines; acting as a backdoor into a system to steal data.

Researchers have noted a number of similarities in the behaviour and spread of Duqu with the infamous Stuxnet malware, leading some researchers to dub Duqu as the successor to Stuxnet.

Say NO to SOPA & PIPA

PIPA: (PROTECT IP Act)

Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act..

PIPA, if passed, will give  U.S. corporations and the government the right to seek affirmative legal action with any website that they see as enabling copyright infringement whether of U.S. origin or not.

SOPA: (Stop Online Piracy Act)

SOPA, if passed, will work in conjunction with PIPA.

Expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.

How SOPA and PIPA Affects You?

·         Many Websites will be Blocked or Removed by US Gevernment: Like where you download movies, copyrighted software and play games.

Now MEGAUPLOAD is Blocked and next all the sites that enable sharing for Free Download of movies, games, software etc. will be Removed.

·         There would be NO Facebook, YouTube, MediaFire, SoundCloud, Twitter, DropBox, or any other site that can be targeted as a place where online piracy could take place.

·         You cannot share Videos from YOUTUBE in any other sites or Upload Videos over YOUTUBE.

·         If this Bill gets passed over US, The next is India.

·         Torrentz also will disappear in a year.

·         All Blog websites from where you gain knowledge through search engine will be removed.

What You Can Do?

·         Inform Everyone You Know.

·         Sign Online Petitions at:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?cl=1425589399

Let’s tell the bill's supporters to kill the bill!

Click here to automatically tweet: @HarryReid Save the free Internet—say no to #SOPA and #PIPA #wikipediablackout Pls RT

Talking points:

• To save the free Internet I call on you to remove the PIPA vote from the Senate's schedule.
• Over a million people across the world object to US censorship of the global Internet.
• The bill would make the US one of the worst Internet censors in the world -- joining the ranks of countries like China and Iran.
• There are other, less damaging, ways to protect copyright and commercial interests.

Now say no to the corporate lobbyists

Rupert Murdoch, Sony, Electronic Arts and other companies are pushing hard for the Internet censorship bills. Let's let them know that global public opinion is against them.

Sample Facebook Message: I call on you to stand for a free and open Internet and oppose both the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Note: You'll need to click the "Like" button in order to post on their Facebook pages:

Click here to post on Rupert Murdoch's page

Click here to post on Sony's page

Click here to post Electronic Arts' page

RUMOR ABOUT BILL GATES DAUGHTER

Recently i have received mail about Bill Gates Daughter pictures which tiled as  ” The Best product from Bill Gates ”


 Later when i searched on Google, found internet is flooded with rumor claiming this girl as Bill Gates daughter. Many of the blog had made post as ‘Bill Gates daughter Jennifer Katharine Gates’.


Legally she is definitely can’t be his daughter because in 1994 Bill Gates got married to Melinda French Gates in a private ceremony held in Lanai, Hawaii. That time Melinda was also working in Microsoft and participated in the development of many of Microsoft’s multimedia products, later after the marriage she left the job to focus on starting and raising her family.


Later the couple bless with three children:


    * Jennifer Katharine Gates, his daughter born in 1996
    * Rory John Gates, his son born in 1999
    * Phoebe Adelle Gates, his daughter born in 2002


So as of now in 2010 Jennifer Katharine Gates age will be 14, and i don’t think the girl in picture look like 14 year old girl.

Stop spyware and tracking cookies with Spyware Blaster

Spywareblaster is a free program to stop spyware from being installed in yourcomputer, instead of allowing tracking artifacts to sneak in and having to scan your hard disk to remove them, Spywareblaster stops tracking software from installing in the first place, protecting the computer against adware, browser hijacks (anchoring your homepage), malicious ActiveX scripts, tracking cookies andflash content. You can enable and disable displaying of flash content through the easy to use Spywareblaster interface, another section allows you create your own custom list of blocked ActiveX controls and another section stores a backup of theHosts file, a file used by your operating system to resolve IP addresses to an  URL,commonly tampered with by malware to redirect you to other pages, theHostsfilcan be rolled back to a certain time and date if that ever happens.

This software consumes very few computer resources and can be used in conjunction with a firewall, antivirus and other antispyware tools without any compatibility problems, it should save you time in the long term by not having to continuously scan the hard disk for adaware. Unfortunately browser support is somewhat limited to those using Internet Explorer rendering engine (Maxthon, Avant, IE, etc) and Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Chrome users have been left out, if you do most of your Internet browsing with something other than Internet Explorer or Firefox, protection will be very limited.

The necessary database updates to keep up with the latest Internet threats are only automatic in the paid for version of this program, the free version has to be updated manually which is easy to forget, I wasn’t too impressed with Spywareblaster, is not bad but I do not see this as a must have, my main grudge is the lack of support for browsers other than IE and Firefox.

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