Thomas Robinson clarifies the situation of MobileMe security and confirms that the traffic is absolutely not encrypted, whatever AppleInsider seem to believe.
Can We Trust The Cloud?
Monday, 11 August 2008 / Comments
Today, like million of people, I’ve been greeted by a scary Google screen of death while trying to access my Gmail account,
Yeah right, I’ve been told everything is fine.
I know those companies do their best to protect your data — after all, it’s their core business –, but we all know a massive outage could happen anytime for whatever reasons; natural disasters, fire, hackers, you name it.
It already happened to The Planet whose data center has been ravaged by fire, letting thousand of businesses in the black.
Can we really trust the cloud?
After all, the Internet business has changed. Yesterday open and self-replicating networks (e.g., Usenet) are now operated in closed silos by private companies (e.g., Google, Facebook). It’s really not easy to aggregate and download all your data — as a backup — from the cloud; who knows what’s happening behind the walls?
What if we think about a distant future, say 40 years from now. Would I be able to access and search everything I’ve sent to the cloud so far (e.g., pictures, comments, writings, emails, tweets, chats)?
I don’t even know.
I’m using Internet services every single day but I can’t help myself having this weird feeling of working without a safety net.
SUNDAY, 10 AUGUST 2008
The iPhone Dev Team has released its iPhone hacking software called Pwnage Tool. I gave it a try today and successfully upgraded, unlocked and jailbreaked my iPhone 2G to the latest 2.0.1 OS.
I was pretty impressed with the quality of the tool. Unlike other iPhone hacking software, Pwnage create a modified firmware that you use to restore your iPhone with iTunes; give it the latest firmware (2.0.1) and bootloader files and it bakes up a custom firmware.
In about 10 minutes I was able to enjoy the upgrade of my iPhone to 2.0.1. Everything worked flawlessly and the tool guides you pretty well through all the steps.
Good job guys.
THURSDAY, 31 JULY 2008
Thanks to Heri Rakotomala and Alok Chowdhury, the Startup Drinks event has come to Montreal since last April.
I was in France during the last edition so I couldn’t attend it but from what I read, it was awesome. There was lots of interesting people gathered in a gorgeous place of Montreal.
Count me in for the next one.
FRIDAY, 25 JULY 2008
iPhone OS 2.1 Beta 1 is available to developers for testing, but the following statement bugs me,
Once you have updated your devices with iPhone OS 2.1 beta 1, you cannot restore them to an earlier version of iPhone OS. Applications developed using iPhone OS 2.1 beta 1 cannot be submitted to the App Store.
As Craig Hockenberry said on Twitter,
The problem is you need 2 devices: for running 2.0 & 2.1. 4 devices if you target the touch. 6 devices if you test on old iPhone, too.
It’s not that clear in Apple documentation and I’m still not sure if you can switch a 2.0 iPhone to development mode and use it as a regular device.
I’m ok to buy an iPod Touch for development but it would lack the features of an iPhone (e.g., camera, phone, GPS) and buying another iPhone also means subscribing to another 3-years contract.
That sucks.
Wordpress for iPhone is one of the first Open Source app for the device. It’s a very good news even if the Free Software Foundation is not fond of the iPhone.
TUESDAY, 22 JULY 2008
David Heinemeier Hansson:
I’ve been using the phone every day for about a week now and it just isn’t up to the great expectations set by the first version. Everything feels so incredibly fragile.
He’s not the only one experiencing problems with the new iPhone software, Tim O’Reilly has also reported similar stories about it.
Some of my friends confirmed that lags are really perceptible on an iPhone 3G. On my side, I’ve upgraded an iPhone 2G to 2.0 without noticing anything wrong.
WEDNESDAY, 16 JULY 2008
With 1 million iPhone sold and 10 million apps downloaded in three days, the App Store is a huge success. Top developers already made a shitload of money.
