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Date: July 4th, 2011

Anyone fancy buying the JailbreakMe.com domain name, this domain name is up for sale with the current bid being at only £1,555. So far only 33 bids have been placed, the certified appraised value was listed at only $316.50, the listing will end on 2011/07/16 12:00:00 AM (PDT).

If you visit GoDaddy.com you will see the domain up for sale, the auction is open to anyone. JailBreakMe domain popularity (Alexa Ranking) has a 6/10 (Rank of 39,063), the link popularity is as follows: Incoming Google Links: 360 Incoming Yahoo! Links: 12,783 Google Search Saturation: 5 Yahoo! Search Saturation: 0.

We cannot understand why JailbreakMe.com is up for sale, now if you visit 9to5Mac they report that @comex, a certain member of the Dev-team has been working on the iPad 2 jailbreak, apparently the jailbreak will use some sort of PDF exploit via jailbreakme.com and will support iOS 4.2.1-4.3.3, but a thanks to jailbreak beta testers leaked the exploit online. According to the source above this version of the JailbreakMe 3.0 exploit has not been confirmed by the Dev-Team or @Comex himself, how does this now stand if JailBreakMe.com domain is up for sale?

The question we would like to know is, “Who is selling the JailBrakMe.com domain?” We have tried to find who is selling it and we are still coming up with nothing, it does not tell you the sellers name on GoDaddy.com, this still remains a mystery.

It was thought that Comex was the owner, but iDB has updated its site saying Comex confirms he does NOT own the domain. Does this mean that original creator Nicholas Penree still owns the website?

We cannot understand why JailbreakMe.com is up for sale, we will keep everyone posted about this and updates will follow as soon as we get to the bottom of it.

If anyone knows who the seller of JailBrealMe is please do use the commenting area provided below and let us know, the site still shows a lot of source coding and this has been like this for a few weeks now.

What we do know: Comex’s JailBreakMe 3.0 for iPad 2 jailbreak was leaked recently. The PDF based exploit was leaked and publicly posted online, It now shows that the iPad 2 jailbreak leak did indeed get unfolded but most of the leaked files have been removed. iDB has the real story covering the iPad 2 Jailbreak Leak, let us know what your opinions are.

 

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A Stronger Net Security System Is Deployed - New York Times

“It won’t matter where you are in the world or who you are in the world, you’re going to be able to authenticate everyone and everything,” said Dan Kaminsky, an independent network security researcher who is one of the engineers involved in the project.

The Singapore event included an elaborate technical ceremony to create and then securely store numerical keys that will be kept in three hardened data centers there, in Zurich and in San Jose, Calif. The keys and data centers are working parts of a technology known as Secure DNS, or DNSSEC. DNS refers to the Domain Name System, which is a directory that connects names to numerical Internet addresses. Preliminary work on the security system had been going on for more than a year, but this was the first time the system went into operation, even though it is not quite complete.

The three centers are fortresses made up of five layers of physical, electronic and cryptographic security, making it virtually impossible to tamper with the system. Four layers are active now. The fifth, a physical barrier, is being built inside the data center.

The technology is viewed by many computer security specialists as a ray of hope amid the recent cascade of data thefts, attacks, disruptions and scandals, including break-ins at Citibank, Sony, Lockheed Martin, RSA Security and elsewhere. It allows users to communicate via the Internet with high confidence that the identity of the person or organization they are communicating with is not being spoofed or forged.

Internet engineers like Mr. Kaminsky want to counteract three major deficiencies in today’s Internet. There is no mechanism for ensuring trust, the quality of software is uneven, and it is difficult to track down bad actors.

One reason for these flaws is that from the 1960s through the 1980s the engineers who designed the network’s underlying technology were concerned about reliable, rather than secure, communications. That is starting to change with the introduction of Secure DNS by governments and other organizations.

The event in Singapore capped a process that began more than a year ago and is expected to be complete after 300 so-called top-level domains have been digitally signed, around the end of the year. Before the Singapore event, 70 countries had adopted the technology, and 14 more were added as part of the event. While large countries are generally doing the technical work to include their own domains in the system, the consortium of Internet security specialists is helping smaller countries and organizations with the process.

The United States government was initially divided over the technology. The Department of Homeland Security included the .gov domain early in 2009, while the Department of Commerce initially resisted including the .us domain because some large Internet corporations opposed the deployment of the technology, which is incompatible with some older security protocols.

Internet security specialists said the new security protocol would initially affect Web traffic and e-mail. Most users should be mostly protected by the end of the year, but the effectiveness for a user depends on the participation of the government, Internet providers and organizations and businesses visited online. Eventually the system is expected to have a broad effect on all kinds of communications, including voice calls that travel over the Internet, known as voice-over-Internet protocol.

“In the very long term it will be voice-over-I.P. that will benefit the most,” said Bill Woodcock, research director at the Packet Clearing House, a group based in Berkeley, Calif., that is assisting Icann, the Internet governance organization, in deploying Secure DNS.

Secure DNS makes it possible to make phone calls over the Internet secure from eavesdropping and other kinds of snooping, he said.

Security specialists are hopeful that the new Secure DNS system will enable a global authentication scheme that will be more impenetrable and less expensive than an earlier system of commercial digital certificates that proved vulnerable in a series of prominent compromises.

The first notable case of a compromise of the digital certificates — electronic documents that establish a user’s credentials in business or other transactions on the Web — occurred a decade ago when VeriSign, a prominent vendor of the certificates, mistakenly issued two of them to a person who falsely claimed to represent Microsoft.

Last year, the authors of the Stuxnet computer worm that was used to attack the Iranian uranium processing facility at Natanz were able to steal authentic digital certificates from Taiwanese technology companies. The certificates were used to help the worm evade digital defenses intended to block malware.

In March, Comodo, a firm that markets digital certificates, said it had been attacked by a hacker based in Iran who was trying to use the stolen documents to masquerade as companies like Google, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo.

“At some point the trust gets diluted, and it’s just not as good as it used to be,” said Rick Lamb, the manager of Icann’s Secure DNS program.

The deployment of Secure DNS will significantly lower the cost of adding a layer of security, making it more likely that services built on the technology will be widely available, according to computer network security specialists. It will also potentially serve as a foundation technology for an ambitious United States government effort begun this spring to create a system to ensure “trusted identities” in cyberspace.

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Facebook, Skype, and Microsoft's savvy investment - CNET

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Skype's Tony Bates announce a deal to include Skype's video conferencing into Facebook's social network.

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Just after Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced plans in May to buy Skype, he and Skype Chief Executive Officer Tony Bates had one more order of business.

"The day we announced, we definitely came to see Mark," Bates said, talking of Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, at a press conference today announcing Facebook's plans to bake Skype's video conferencing technology into its social network. "It was for both of us, Steve and I, the most important strategic relationship."

As Google grows ever more powerful in techdom, and Microsoft's influence slips, the Redmond software giant is building closer and closer ties to Facebook. The Facebook-Skype deal today is more evidence that Microsoft and Facebook are in lockstep as they fight their mutual foe, Google. And it comes even while Microsoft awaits regulatory approval to conclude its Skype acquisition.

"We have a really good relationship with Microsoft, where we work with them on a lot of different stuff," Zuckerberg said at the press conference announcing the new video-conferencing feature. That stuff includes advertising, where Microsoft provides all the search advertising to Facebook. It used to provide display advertising, too, but Facebook took over that task last year.

Microsoft has been criticized for its many missteps on the Internet, ranging from leisurely upgrades of Internet Explorer to being slow to understand the importance of search. But its relationship with Facebook is something Ballmer & Co. got right. Microsoft cemented its bond with Facebook in 2007, when it bought a 1.6 percent stake in the company for $240 million. Today, if reported valuations of Facebook are to be believed--online privately held stock marketplace SharesPost currently has an implied value for the company at $82.4 billion--that 1.6 percent is worth $1.3 billion.

But the Microsoft-Facebook relationship isn't really about savvy investment, of course. It's about fighting off Google. Microsoft's Facebook deals, and you can include the new video chat feature from Skype, are all aimed squarely at the search king. And just as the Web search giant has changed the market dynamics to undermine Microsoft's power--helping establish the Web, not the PC desktop, as the heart of computing--so too is Facebook challenging Google. Its service, with 750 million users worldwide, is becoming something of an alternative Internet, a place where computer users spend huge chunks of time and never touch a Google service.

In May, Microsoft began including recommendations from Facebook friends into its Bing search engine, elevating results that receive a "like" from someone in the searcher's network. That way, when people search for a coffee shop in Los Angeles, for example, a java stop that won Facebook praise from their friends will rate higher in their search results, as long as they are logged in, than other nearby locations.

The Microsoft-Facebook deals are creating services that Google has yet to match. Google has tried to add social networking to search, creating its +1 button to shower favor on a news article, a company, or even a search result. But its network isn't the equal of Facebook. So clicking the +1 button doesn't have the same impact as clicking a Facebook "like."

The new video chat feature unveiled today offers the potential to extend Skype to an ever wider audience. Facebook users can connect their accounts with Skype. If they chose to, it opens another outlet for the video-conferencing service. Microsoft has already talked about baking Skype into a host of products, everything from its Outlook e-mail software to its Xbox video game console. The new deal could conceivably allow video chats from a Skype customer through a Facebook account on a PC to a TV set where an Xbox user, also connected by Skype, is online.

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There's little doubt the battle will continue with both sides ratcheting up the pressure with new services and features. Standing next to Bates at the press conference today, Zuckerberg made that perfectly clear.

"We're in the process of figuring out what we want to do next," Zuckerberg said.

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Law Professors Line Up to Oppose the PROTECT IP Act - Zeropaid

The RIAA may have made a red herring argument that hacktivist groups are reason enough to push for the PROTECT IP act but there are many that refuse to accept government mandated censorship in the US. That includes a growing number of law professors who signed an open letter to express their opposition to the act. From the letter:

We, the undersigned law professors who teach and write about intellectual property and Internet law, strongly urge the members of Congress to reject the PROTECT IP Act (the “Act”). Although the problems the Act attempts to address – online copyright and trademark infringement – are serious ones presenting new and difficult enforcement challenges, the approach taken in the Act has grave constitutional infirmities, potentially dangerous consequences for the stability and security of the Internet’s addressing system, and will undermine United States foreign polocy and strong support for free expression on the Internet around the world.

The Act would allow the government to break the Internet addressing system. It requires Internet service providers and operators of Internet name servers, to refuse to recognize Internet domains that a court considers “dedicated to infringement activities.” But rather than wait until a Web site is actually judged infringing before imposing the equivalent of an Internet death penalty, the Act would allow courts to order any Internet service provider to stop recognizing the site even on a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction issued the same day the complaint is filed. Courts could issue such an order even if the owner of that domain name was never given notice that a case against it had been filed at all.

The Act goes still further. It requires credit card providers, advertisers, and search engines to refuse to deal with the owners of such sites. For example, search engines are required to “(i) remove or disable access to the Internet site associated with the domain name set forth in the court order, or (ii) not serve a hypertext link to such Internet site.” In the case of credit card companies and advertisers, they must stop doing business not only with sites the government has chosen to sue but any site that a private copyright or trademark owner claims is predominantly infringing. Giving this enormous new power not just to the government but to any copyright and trademark owner would not only disrupt the operations of the allegedly infringing web site without a final judgement of wrongdoing, but would make it extraordinarily difficult for advertisers and credit card companies to do business on the Internet.

The letter goes on to describe three reasons why the Act should be opposed. The first is the suppression of speech without a proper hearing (thus, unconstitutional), the second is that it breaks the internet infrastructure, and third, it undermines the United States position in supporting and defending free speech and the free exchange of information on the Internet. Looking through the letter, all three of these arguments against the Act look very solid to me. Looking at things broadly, it really boils down to one thing: will the United States choose to support a few corporate interests or will it choose to support it’s international and domestic interests? If the United States chooses the former in this case, then it really has absolutely no moral authority to criticize places like China for attempts to control or curtail free speech. If the United States chooses the latter, then it upsets organizations like the RIAA and might finally push the entertainment industry to adapt to a modern era – maybe, maybe not.

Technologically speaking, censoring websites will never be fully possible. In addition, such a measure will never be able to fully stop copyright infringement. The only way I personally have ever seen it possible to eliminate all copyright infringement is to completely dismantle the Internet from top to bottom – and I argue that this will happen over Google, Yahoo,eBay, Amazon and numerous other eCommerce sites dead bodies. It didn’t work for China, it hasn’t been working in Thailand, it’ll never work in Australia and it was a failure in Germany. It’s a dead on arrival policy.

In the end, it’s a case of “nothing to gain, everything to lose” type policy. In my view, it’s little more than common sense to oppose such legislation. We can only hope that there is enough in the US government to kill the legislation.

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Another Certificate Authority Compromised: No Fake SSL Certificates Issued - eWeek

StartSSL, a certification authority offering free SSL certificates, was compromised by unknown attackers earlier this month. The company has suspended issuing security certificates for Websites as a "defensive measure."

Attackers hit StartSSL on June 15, and the company suspended issuing SSL certificates indefinitely, according to a short statement on the site. Secure Sockets Layer is used by Websites around the world as a trust mechanism to convince the Web browser the site the user is accessing is the authentic version and not a counterfeit one. Certificates that have already been issued to customers were not compromised, and visitors to those sites are not affected, according to the statement.

Unlike the attacks on Comodo and other certificate authorities, these attackers did not gain enough access to issue valid certificates for arbitrary domains to themselves, StartSSL said. The attackers were also unsuccessful in generating an intermediate certificate that would allow them to act as their own certificate authority, The Register reported.

"Due to a security breach that occurred at the 15th of June, issuance of digital certificates and related services has been suspended. Our services will remain offline until further notice," StartSSL said.

It's not clear what the attackers were able to access, nor what it means for the company's ability to continue issuing certificates in the future.

"Our services will be gradually reinstated as the situation allows," the company said on the site. The message was still on the site as of June 22.

The company stressed that existing certificates were not compromised. More than 25,000 Websites use certificates issued by StartSSL, according to Paul Mutton, a security researcher with British security firm Netcraft.

StartSSL offers one-year free domain validated SSL certificates as well as other organization and extended validation certificates. AffirmTrust offers three-year domain validated SSL certificates for free.

The StartSSL attack follows earlier attacks on other certificate authorities and is the fifth one this year. Root certificate authority Comodo was compromised in March when an attacker breached a reseller's system and received several valid certificates for major domains. Certificates for seven addresses were forged, including Google mail, www.google.com, login.yahoo.com, login.skype.com, addons.mozilla.com and Microsoft's login.live.com.

Comodo detected the problem almost immediately and revoked the certificates before they could be used. Microsoft, Mozilla and Google pushed out updates to blacklist those certificates, but it still took a few days. Apple took much longer to update Safari.

StartSSL certificates are accepted by default by most major browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Once a certificate authority's root certificate is included within a browser, it can validate hundreds of thousands of individual Websites, making it impractical to remove the compromised authority from the browser entirely.

The attackers were after valid certificates for a list of Websites similar to those targeted by the Comodo attacker, Eddy Nigg, CTO and COO of StartSSL's parent company StartCom, told The Register. The attack did not succeed because the authority's private encryption key was stored on a computer that isn't connected to the Internet, Nigg said.

The incident highlighted the lack of security in the worldwide certificate authority structure. There were too many authorities and the system was not being implemented as designed, James Lyne, director of technology strategy at Sophos, told eWEEK. SSL no longer provides meaningful security, since users can just ignore the warning that a site has an invalid certificate and proceed to a Website, Lyne said.

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How to back up your Gmail - Macworld

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Google’s popular Gmail service provides free email accounts with plentiful storage, fast searching, and access from any Web browser. But keeping all your correspondence in Google’s cloud is risky: a network outage anywhere between your Mac and Google’s servers could make your email temporarily inaccessible, while a server malfunction or user error could wipe out years of your saved messages. You can minimize your chances of losing email by backing up the contents of your Gmail account.

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Both of the backup techniques I cover here require access to your Gmail account via IMAP, which is disabled by default. So your first step is to log in to your Gmail account, click the gear-shaped icon in the upper right corner, and choose Mail Settings from the pop-up menu. Then click on the Forwarding and POP/IMAP link and make sure Enable IMAP is selected. If not, select it and click Save Changes.

Back up locally

The least expensive and most secure way to back up your Gmail is to download all your messages using an IMAP client such as Apple Mail (), Microsoft Outlook (), or Mozilla Thunderbird. If you use such a client as opposed to a Web browser, or a browser-based application such as Mailplane, () to access your Gmail account, then assuming your settings are correct (as I explain in a moment), you automatically store a local copy of every message.

If you already use an IMAP client for other accounts, you can add your Gmail account just as you would any other IMAP account. Google has a Web page with detailed setup instructions for most common IMAP clients (and I provide even better instructions for Apple Mail in this TidBits article). But in addition to setting up your account as described there, be sure your client is set to synchronize all messages, as follows:

In Apple Mail, choose Mail -> Preferences, click Accounts, and select your Gmail account in the list on the left. Click Advanced, and from the Keep Copies Of Messages For Offline Viewing pop-up menu, choose All Messages And Their Attachments.

In Outlook 2011, choose Outlook -> Preferences, click Accounts, and select your Gmail account in the list on the left. Click Advanced, and then click Server; check Always Download Complete Message Bodies is checked and uncheck In Inbox Only. Click OK, and the close the Preferences window.

In Thunderbird, choose Tools -> Account Settings. In the list on the left, under your Gmail account, select Synchronization & Storage. Make sure Keep Messages for This Account On This Computer is checked, select Synchronize All Messages Locally Regardless of Age, and uncheck Don’t Download Messages Larger Than __ KB. In addition, click Advanced and make sure all the Gmail folders you want to back up have a check in the Download column. Click OK to dismiss each dialog.

With your client set up correctly, all you need do is remember to launch it and check your Gmail account (or allow it to check automatically) once a day. Be sure to leave it running long enough to download all your messages before quitting.

Make sure IMAP support is enabled in Gmail before using any backup technique.

Once your messages have been downloaded to an IMAP client, you have two copies of each—one on your Mac and one on Google’s servers. But because IMAP keeps your email program and Gmail in sync, deleting a message in either place (even if inadvertently) also makes it disappear from the other. So for added security, be sure to use Time Machine or another backup program of your choice to keep your local files—including downloaded email—backed up.

Back up to the cloud

If you don’t want the bother of setting up a local email client, or prefer to avoid the clutter of extra files on your disk, you can back up Gmail’s messages to another cloud-based service for a modest fee. You can then view or restore backed up messages in any Web browser. Here are a couple of examples of such services:

Backupify is an all-purpose cloud-to-cloud backup service that, in addition to Gmail, can back up other Google Apps, your Facebook profile information, your tweets from Twitter, your photo collection on Flickr, photos and videos you store on Picasa, Google Calendar data, and more. The free 2GB Personal plan covers 5 accounts (though not Gmail accounts using custom domains); the Pro 100 plan costs $5 per month for 20GB of storage from up to 25 accounts from five users (including custom Gmail domains); and the Pro 500 account, at $20 per month, backs up unlimited accounts, with unlimited storage, for ten users.

A service like Backupify can backup your Gmail as well as your important data from most social media sites.

BackupMyMail from BackupMy charges $20 per year for 1GB of storage for Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, or Hotmail/Windows Live accounts; higher-capacity plans are expected to be available in the future. (The company offers separate services for backing up your blog, Twitter account, and online photos.)

But note that although both services encrypt your login credentials, security may not be a guarantee. A representative from Backupify told me that the contents of all email messages are stored using AES 256-bit encryption—and that the only people with access to the encryption key are the CEO and the VP of Security. Meanwhile, BackupMyMail doesn’t explicitly state whether, or how, they protect the contents of your email at all. So you’ll have to consider each provider’s privacy policy and judge for yourself whether you feel comfortable.

Senior contributor Joe Kissell is the senior editor of TidBits and the author of the e-book Take Control of Mail on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Second Edition.

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