The author surveyed over 230 applications (the full list of applications ,can be found in A Survey Of Mobile Device Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Defenses), including applications in the “Top” categories on the iTunes store to determine what type of information could be extracted from auditing packet streams. The results were quite surprising. To perform [...]
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Restoring “Bounce” Functionality in Mail.app and Lion
The “Bounce” functionality was one of my most used features of Mail, and it was particiarly handy in removing yourself from non-spam, non-automated mailing lists (such as recruiters and people you no longer want to hear from). This feature is missing in Lion and Mail 5! In addition to telling Apple you want it back, [...]
Rumors of a “Home Button”-less iPad2 and iPhone5
Normally, I think that simpler is better. I enjoy simple things and not just necessarily things like the smell of cut grass, an ice cold beer at a friends BBQ, the first snowfall of winter or reading a book. After all, Occam was on to something (the law of succinctness is a principle which generally [...]
Horiztonal Scroll Wheel with Cocoa and Objective-C
As engineers, we should attempt to cross the boundary of developers vs. front-end UI design engineers. Typically, people who write code are not very good UI engineers because they just don’t have the experience. It isn’t that we want to make a bad interface, we are just very accustomed to using standard UI components. However, [...]