Last week, noted hacker Geohot posted to his blog that he had jailbroken the Apple iPhone 4 but quickly stated that he would not be releasing the tool to the public anytime soon.
Today, icons MuscleNerd and Planetbeing have posted that they have jailbroken and unlocked the iPhone 4, with the tools likely coming after Apple releases their iOS 4.0.1/4.1 update in the coming weeks.
The update should help solve the problem behind that aptly named “antennagate,” where iPhone 4 users continuously lose reception when holding the phones in their left hands, covering the antenna.
Planetbeing tweeted this morning: “Looks like I now have an unlocked iPhone 4 :)”
The hacker then posted a picture of his phone running Cydia, the jailbroken phone App Store, while connected to Bell Canada. It seems he used “code of @comex’s userland jailbreak method.”
If Apple keeps the exploits unpatched, expect the tool out when the firmware update hits.
Result for: bell canada
After being accused of shaping and throttling P2P traffic, Bell Canada has admitted to doing so, claiming that it is within its rights to do so.
The company admitted that it implemented “load balancing to manage Bandwidth demand,” and did so without telling customers or even the ISPs involved. The accusations thrown at Bell first occurred when Canadian ISP Teksavvy, an ISP popular among P2P users because traffic is guaranteed to not be throttled, noticed the “load balancing” and contacted Bell.
Last October Bell Canada’s own ISP, Sympatico, admitted to throttling P2P traffic on BitTorrent, Gnutella, Limewire, Kazaa, eDonkey, eMule, and WinMX which they claimed “use a large portion of bandwidth during peak hours.” The measures were supposedly only used during “peak hours” however.
What is more infuriating to customers is the fact that now traffic is affected for not only Sympatico users but customers of other ISPs that have connections through Bell. In response to what many customers have called “anti-competitive measures” being used by Bell a letter campaign is being formed with the Canadian Competition Bureau.
The group letter reads, “Bell Canada has overstepped its authority and are flexing their muscle (infrastructure control) to impose their will on independent competitors. I am a customer of an independent ISP who has purchased bandwidth and my provider is at the mercy of this underhanded tactic being employed by Bell Canada.”
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