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Monday, 10th November 2008

iPhone Backup Extractor possibilities (via) Nick Ludlam points out that iTunes backs up your iPhone call records by copying across a sqlite database—which means it wouldn’t be at all hard to extract the logs in to a larger database. Could make for a really cool addition to a private lifestreaming application.

# 10:41 pm / nickludlam, iphone, sqlite, itunes, backup, lifestream

License Hacking. Wikipedia is making the switch to a CC license, by asking the Free Software Foundation to include that as an option in the latest version of the Free Documentation License which Wikipedia currently uses and which includes an auto-upgrade clause. Devious.

# 10:46 pm / licenses, open-source, wikipedia, freesoftwarefoundation, fsf, creativecommons, fdl

Worst. Bug. Ever. Android phones were executing every keystroke typed in to the phone in an invisible root shell! Text “reboot” to a friend and your phone rebooted. Wow.

# 10:51 pm / android, bug, security, root, phones

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