iPhone 3GS: GV goes Cydia, Jailbrokens are WMD

Posted by rsanchez Published in Electronics, Gadgets, mobile phones

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As we mentioned last time, the mobile phone world has more twists on it than a pretzel. Apple’s iPhone 3GS been on the news for the wrong reasons and you’ll find out more below.

GV Mobile goes to jailbroken iPhones

So what if Google’s GV Mobile gets blocked from the app store? There’s always Cydia, a third party application specifically created to download apps to jailbroken iPhones. And that’s where this app is headed.

The developer of the recently kicked-out-of-the-App-Store GV Mobile has decided to go ahead and release GV Mobile for free rather than let his work go to waste (it should show up in Cydia sometime today or tomorrow). It’s a small consolation that you can now get this unofficial app via Cydia on a jailbroken iPhone—especially since we’d really kill to see what the official Google Voice app from Apple would have looked like—but it’s better than nothing.

Yes, it looks like if you want to use GV Mobile for your iPhone 3GS, you’ll have to jailbreak it. What a way for Apple to even further make us WANT to jailbreak it, eh?

Jailbroken iPhone 3GS: Weapon of Mass Destruction?

In response to all the potential jailbreaking of the iPhone 3GS due to reasons stated above, Apple has issued a statement basically saying that a jailbroken iPhone 3GS will bring down the interwebz:

By tinkering with this code, “a local or international hacker could potentially initiate commands (such as a denial of service attack) that could crash the tower software, rendering the tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data,” Apple wrote the government. “Taking control of the BBP software would be much the equivalent of getting inside the firewall of a corporate computer — to potentially catastrophic result.

Ok, granted that the iPhone maybe the weapon of mass destruction that the US was looking for in Iraq–nobody’s buying this argument at all.

Fred von Lohmann, the EFF attorney who made the request, said Apple’s latest claims are preposterous…

In an interview Tuesday, he said he suspected those phones have not been used to destroy mobile phone towers. “As far as I know, nothing like that has ever happened,” he said.

He added that, if Apple’s argument was correct, the open-source Android phone from Google on T-Mobile networks would also be a menace to society. ”This kind of theoretical threat,” von Lohmann said, “is more FUD than truth.”

Really? If that’s the case, then the iPhone 3GS should be banned and never sold, yes? Where’s the popcorn? Looks like the ending to this story is still a bit far off…

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