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Is Real's 'hacking' of iPod legal?

Code-crackers risk fines and prison time when they defeat copy-protection technology, but such draconian rules likely don't apply in the case of RealNetworks and its iPod "hack," legal experts in the US say. Read more »

Macs are easy to hack: researcher

"Macs are as easy to hack as they are to use", according to researcher Charles Miller. Read more »

iPhone hacked in less than a month?

Apple's iPhone has been on the market for less than a month, but already researchers have claimed to have hacked the popular device. Read more »

MacBook hacked in contest at security event

Software engineer Shane Macaulay hacked into a MacBook through a zero-day security hole in Apple's Safari browser, winning a free laptop in the process. The computer was one of two offered as a prize in the "PWN to Own" hack-a-Mac contest at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada. Read more »

Apple's Leopard hacked in 30 seconds

Apple's Leopard has been hacked within 30 seconds using a flaw in Safari, with rival OSes Ubuntu and Vista so far remaining impenetrable in the CanSecWest PWN to OWN competition. Read more »

Mac hacked through QuickTime flaw

The security hole used to breach a MacBook in a hack-a-Mac competition last week lies in Apple's QuickTime media player, the flaw finder said on Tuesday. Read more »

iPhone hack wars continue

Two weeks after the update that disabled iPhones that had been unlocked or had third-party applications installed, hackers have struck back with a new method for unlocking the popular device. Read more »

iPhone hacked by Aussie using 'Turbo SIM'

An Australian iPhone hacker claims to be the first person to have successfully unlocked Apple's mobile phone so it can be used on any network. Read more »

Hackers claim iPhone 2.0 jailbreak

It hasn't even been released yet, but iPhone hackers claim to have already figured out a way to jailbreak Apple's iPhone 2.0 software. Read more »

Ubuntu more secure than Leopard, Windows Vista?

Ubuntu Linux was the only system left unscathed in a multi-platform hacking competition last week, but does that mean it is more secure? Read more »

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50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

Teen iPhone hacker predicts two weeks: Interview

Builder AU tracked down the first person outside of Apple to get their hands on the inner workings of the iPhone and asked him the what, the where and the why of hacking the iPhone. Read more »

Should you hire an ex-hacker?

Hiring a hacker as a chief security officer may sound crazy, but it has paid off for one company. See why an ex-hacker might be your smartest hire ever. Read more »

The spider's Web of CSS

Finishing up our Web Directions South build up, we talk to Andy Clarke, Web designer, presenter and invited expert to the W3C's CSS working group. Andy gave us the low down on standards, the new way of designing Web sites and the problem with Web 2.0. Read more »

Australian open source winners announced

The winners of the annual Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group's open source awards were announced in Sydney this week. Read more »

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I'm a Linux -- Club Builder

Microsoft has "I'm a PC" ads, Apple has "I'm a Mac", it's only fair that Linux has "I'm a Linux" too. Also on Club Builder this week, we look at the week of hacking and offer you the chance to win big in our competition. Read more »

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Creating Web apps at iPhone Developer Camp

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- "Apple is not ready to have a developer community yet ... you have to be on the Apple happy list to be a developer," Christopher Allen said. "There has always been this tension with Apple and the developers' community." Read more »

BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

iPhone root password cracked in three days

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- It's been out just three days, but already the Apple iPhone has been taken apart both literally and figuratively. The latest: inquisitive Apple fans have hacked into the firmware and discovered the master root password to the smart phone. Read more »

Unlocking the Wii's hidden potential

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In a collection of videos, notable for their lucid explanations, Johnny Lee, a Ph.D. graduate student from CMU's Human-Computer Interaction Institute shows exactly how versatile the "Wiimote" system can be Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

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    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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