Alright I really don’t want to just point out iPhone stuff but there is so much going on with them currently. Gizmodo also has a video http://gizmodo.com/5042332/huge-iphone-security-flaw-puts-all-private-information-at-risk

You'll have to have some contacts set up with Favorites. If you don't have any favorites, looks like you'll be OK

Each contact setup as a Favorite would likely have an address, phone, email and possibly a link to their website, right? Those are the points of entry to the corresponding apps. So, when you get access (described next) using those features will launch those apps completely bypassing the passcode.

1. So you open the phone, and on the passcode screen you click "Emergency Call"

2 Now double-tap the Home button

3. Look, your Favorites! Clicking the blue arrow will take you to the contact info. Depending on what that contact has (email, website, etc.) you can access the corresponding applications, free of the concerns of passcode protections.

Hey look everyone, Microsoft is more secure than apple for once…

All the Math geeks are partying tonight….

 The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search http://mersenne.org/prime.htm has apparently discovered a new world-record prime number!!! A GIMPS client computer reported the number on August 23rd, and verification is currently under way. The verification could take up to two weeks to complete. The last Mersenne prime discovered was over 9.8 million digits long, strongly suggesting that the new value may break the 10 million digit barrier — qualifying for the EFF's $100000 prize! http://www.eff.org/awards/coop

 I have a huge problem with the banning of any book, recently the iPhone application Comic Reader has been rejected because it can read the Murderdrome http://www.infuriouscomics.com/ comic series. I’m guessing you can assume from the title it’s not a fluffy happy kid’s comic. But this is a comic book. A work of drawing and word balloons. It is imaginary. It is fiction.

The application Comic Reader was submitted to the Apple App Store and the publishers received notice that it was being rejected for violating terms of the Software Developer Kit which states:

“Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgment may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.”

Hold up a minute…. They are banning content not the application, the application can be used for many, many, different comics.  Apple sells Reservoir Dogs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_Dogs in their iTunes store, arguably one of the most violent and graphic movies ever made, and apple sells the unrated version.

                The Soviet Union banned the The Bible and The Quran from libraries during 1926 to 1956. Who does Apple think they are

As everyone else in the world has reported yes apple released another update to the iPhone to fix “bugs” The 2.0.2 update of Apple's phone OS is out there for your downloading pleasure via iTunes. So far, all I know is that this tackles those pesky "bugs," but what those exact bugs are, we couldn't say... nor could Apple. I’m grabbing it now and will let you know if there is anything note worthy about this update.

There was a New York Times story that caught my eye the other day about the need for a more secure method for identification than the password-based system almost everyone currently uses  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/technology/10digi.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=password&st=cse&oref=slogin The article discusses moving away from password based security to a smart card system “Users on shared systems can easily set up a simple PIN code to protect any card from use by other users...” Gee wiz, that almost sounds like a.... password. This is an article about using things instead of passwords.... which function like passwords.... and using passwords when those wouldn't be secure enough.

The real problem exists between keyboard and chair, and the article does not address that aspect nor give any good workaround.