Noise: In science, and especially in physics and telecommunication, noise is fluctuations in and the addition of external factors to the stream of target information (signal) being received at a detector. In communications, it may be deliberate as for instance jamming of a radio or TV signal, but in most cases it is assumed to be merely undesired interference with intended operations.
— Wikipidea.
The web is on fire today!
Everyone who has a slight interest in iPhone hacking is at their keyboards tossing their two cents into the background noise. Me included too also as well!
Three major players have come forward in the last few days to announce that they’ve hacked the phone. The best part is that their stories all have unique qualities that personify the web as it is today:
GeoHot: A fine example that brain power will out. This 17 year old kid who, with the help of an online community, rewired his iPhone (in a gut-wrenching display of faith in his own hands) to accept any SIM card into his phone, releasing it from the AT&T contract. And he released his hack to the Interweb for free. He’s enjoying his 15 minutes of fame by getting a slot on CNN and has had his account to be reset on eBay when he attempted to sell his second hacked phone because he needed some money to get ready to go to college. In the end, someone traded the hacked phone for a Nissan Z350. I swear, my parents needed to get me a science kit when I was a kid…
iPhoneSimfree.com: The white knight everyone is waiting for. Or so they say. They’ve sent detailed proof to Engadget.com (a reputable tech blog) of an easy, non-destructive software hack that doesn’t involve opening the phone and sounds like plebians like myself could do it. They’ve convinced Engadget that their hack is the holy grail that we’re all searching for. They are curiously silent today and expected to release some sort of news as to how/when they will offer this software.
iphoneunlocking.com: Considered them the Dirty Spammers of the whole iPhone spectacle. They announced that if you supplied a ID number for your iPhone, needed to be tailored to your personal hack, you would receive a discount on the final software package. They’ve missed their self imposed release date and give a bizarre explanation on their blog about late night cease-and-desist phone call from an AT&T lawyer. But claim they didn’t get his number. Cell phone tech guy didn’t get a number for an incoming call? Curious. Many on Hackintosh speculate that they’re waiting for the iPhoneSimFree solution, reverse engineer it for themselves and sell it off. Their blog has certainly been reverse engineering itself over the last 24 hours. Dubious entries have been showing up in non-chronological order and in different fonts, to suggest cut-n-paste from a myriad of emails/sites. Remember kids, if it’s too good to be true, it’s a Nairobi bank scam.
UPDATE: I may have to eat my words about iPhoneUnlocking.com, but there are technical questions raised by this video. Why the poor quality? Why is he alone filming this? etc etc… time will tell. But it does give me a glimmer of hope!
Me? What am I doing while history is being made?
4 people have emailed me each of the above scenarios in the last 24 hours. Bless you, daryl, Scott, Michael and Lenita.
I have major news sites, the above mentioned players and a few other places RSS’d so that as soon as someone peeps, poops or burps iPhone information, I know about it.
I have not felt this kind of devotion to a product in a long time.
And I love it when this kind of stuff happens across the web. I squirm on my hands reading the forums and blogs as they each try to out-info each other while nothing comes down the wire. It’s like living a paragraph from a William Gibson novel.
Meanwhile, as that is being debated in the boardrooms at One Mount Pleasant Drive (Is it even an issue? Are they actually discussing this?) Apple needs to clear up that whole Comwave “We have the iPhone!” issue. I bet the dollar-eyed execs at Comwave are sitting ’round their receptionist’s desk jumping up and down like a kid on Christmas morning, every time the phone rings:
