sigmamedia blog

...just notified the author of the MailAnyoneAnywhere Windows application about a number of security problems with his software. The application, probably first reviewed by raymond.cc , is currently being offered/recommended with positive reviews on larger networks such as digg.com and softpedia.com. Expect the current version of the application to be pulled out (or - easily - made unusable by some miscreants , before then) - you should not rely on it too much ;-) [ details in a week ]

I am an occasional user of the Internet Tethering feature of my old iPhone 3G running iOS 4.1 . The feature is now called Personal Hotspot in iOS 5. On my laptop, I (also) run a Backtrack Linux installation which has no built-in support for iPhone USB tethering and - differently than plain Ubuntu - no installable option from the default repositories. For some unclear reason, the modified dkms from the pmcenery repository stopped working once I removed the old kernel modules (one of the anomalies being the interface shown as wwan0 instead of the usual eth1 , even after removal and rebuild). Executing the below commands *literally* across updates might be unsafe for the system, it worked fine for 2 of my - updated - BT5R2 systems as of today, though: apt-get install ifuse gvfs libimobiledevice0 libimobiledevice-utils \ linux-source-3.2.6 linux-headers-3.2.6 build-essential cd /usr/src (of course, only if not already done before ;-) tar xfvj /usr/src/linux-source-3.2.6.tar