Petr Šourek Jailbreak has become legal, but Apple, it seems, is not giving up in the fight against these attempts to modify its devices. He has now applied for a patent against unauthorized use of his device.
In the patent "Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device" Apple mentions several methods for the device to detect who is using it. Among these methods are:
- voice recognition,
- photo analysis,
- heart rhythm analysis,
- hacking attempts
If the conditions for "abuse" of a mobile device are met, the device could then take a photo of the user and record GPS coordinates, record keystrokes, phone calls or other activities. If the device detects an unauthorized intervention, it could also disable some system options, or send a message to Twitter or other services.
I know it looks nice and these steps could help in stealing your mobile device, but it's a double-edged sword. Jailbreak users could fall into the latter category of "hacking attempts". We'll see how it all turns out.
Source: redmondpie.com Patent: <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>
If you force this on me, it will either fly out the window or hit the wall. I think that Apple has definitely gone crazy, instead of asking why so many people use JB, they must want some standard functionality common with other phones. So figure out how to spy and censor your own users.
I don't know of a critical feature that the others have that the iPhone doesn't. Before iOS4 let's face it, but now? — And about the jailbreak: more than 80% do it for one reason: they don't want to pay for apps, they want to steal them.
Changing the sound for incoming sms is the only thing that still bothers me.
With O2.cz, just like with AT&T, you cannot use official tethering...
A lot of people buy iPhones abroad, so unlock …
Apple will not allow certain applications to the App Store, which are then sold on Cydia (e.g. emulators)
Possibility to use the iPhone as a USB drive (via cable, there are applications on WiFi and on the App Store)
But yes, you're right, a lot of people do it because of illegal applications...
You're right, I miss a lot of things on the iPhone too, but we haven't done JB yet. And personally, I think that there are a lot of phones on the market that have the missing things.. It's just a device with such functions and such rules, and Apple is certainly not forcing anyone to use and buy it.
That's how I like it... ;-)
Finally someone smart. :-)
it's not about smartness, because the iPhone has these shortcomings, but after trying the competition, apart from Android, I can safely say that the iPhone is the best thing I could buy for me...
Jerk… ;-)
This list doesn't sound relevant to you? http://forum.14205.w5.wedos.net/iphone-ipod-touch/co-iphone-neumi/
Me, yes. I paid 3 crowns for a 12GS at the operator and still I don't have some functions that my previous phone had for half the price! On the contrary, 4G does not appeal to me in any way, because it does not solve any of these missing things. What good is a better display if at the moment when I need it the most, I don't get a business card for my son's third-day teacher and this super smart phone doesn't even bother to tell me that someone sent me something at all. Likewise, I have a pretty good car including iPad support and built-in Mark&Levinson audio system including BT. Do you think I can upload the phone book to the on-board computer, no I can't, why? because of apple. I really don't need to download applications for free, but I expect that for the price of a manager's phone I will get an answering phone and not that I will automatically hack my phone in order to be able to delete individual calls.
Nothing against it, but buying a phone when you know it's 2x more expensive, has 1/2 less functionality, and then cursing about it is a bit counterproductive, don't you think?
Agreed.. Why don't you sell it and buy something else that suits you better?
I already know iPhone business cards... I tested the exchange with Nokia, it just sent it as an MMS message...
The problem is that people are not used to using MMS business cards and send them as sms, if at least the iPhone said that something had arrived and had to display them, unfortunately it didn't do anything at all. Well, yes, I have an iPhone because it was supposed to be the first platform for the project I'm working on now, but given the more restrictive Apple policy, we finally decided to demonstrate the prototype only on the iPhone interface simulator, and we're waiting for a decision on the platform.
what I tested was that the business card was sent in MMS, the iPhone wrote it and it could be a problem, but the Nokia messed it up and when it came from the Nokia in the form of an SMS, it accepted it and normally I could save it as a contact... Now I don't understand what is meant.
Sony Ericsson does this too, so what's the problem? :) Although the fact is that Nokia can do it in SMS and the possibility to send them via bluetooth would be nice too...
The problem is being able to receive it in the form of SMS, unfortunately there is no single official application that can do that (at least I haven't found one).
Finding things that iPhone/iOS can't do is quite enough. As far as I'm concerned, these are things that 99% of the time I never used and didn't miss (although my previous mobile phone (SE700i) did).
The market is full of mobile phones - you just have to choose. Personally, I prefer the iPhone (like OSX over Windows). Everything I need works for me quickly and elegantly.
On Saturday, I was reminded again why not Windows - I spent 2 hours at the computer when I repaired/set up my friend's XP via the remote desktop (on OSX, I would have done a similar thing in 1/10 of the time).
I wonder how the phone can analyze heart rhythm. And if he could do that, what would that gain him in terms of recognizing who was using it? After all, the heart rhythm is not something unique to one person, we all have a similar and, above all, constantly changing one. You don't know what exactly is written there in connection with that analysis?
13 . The electronic device of claim 11, further comprising: a heartbeat sensor operable to detect the heartbeat of the current user; and wherein the processor is further operable to: compare the detected heartbeat with heart signatures of each authorized user of the electronic device; and determine that the detected heartbeat does not match the heart signature of any authorized user of the electronic device.
here they roughly describe that the phone should have a sensor that will monitor the sinusoid of the user's heartbeat and should be able to compare it with the heartbeat of other users, authorized or unauthorized, and should recognize if the current sinusoid matches those who are authorized, more is written in the next paragraph, which is a little lower.
As another example, a heartbeat sensor can be used to determine the current user's identity. Generally, each person can have a unique heartbeat. For example, by analyzing the ratio between the high and low peaks measured in an electrocardiogram (“ECG”) of a user's heart, a unique heartbeat “signature” that is distinctive to each user can be identified. Thus, by analyzing the heartbeat of the current user and comparing it to the owner's heartbeat, the electronic device can determine whether or not the current user matches an authorized user.
In this paragraph, they write that each person can have a unique heartbeat, when the ratio between the upper and lower peaks in the sinusoid is measured, which is supposedly unique for each user. And according to that, the sensor should evaluate whether it is the given user or not.
Anyway, I'm not a cardiologist to be able to say how much it is exactly or not ;( if there is someone like that, could you please shed some light?
I'm not a cardiologist, but I've learned a lot about cardiology - both heart activity and ECG recording, theoretically and practically, including ECG evaluation. An EKG waveform is a recording of the potential between two locations on the body. Potential spreads to those two places from the heart. In order for the ECG to be recorded, you need to have two electrodes sensing two places far enough apart - the further, the better. In practice, electrodes are placed on the hand near the wrist. The electrodes located on the chest are the closest to each other, here the mutual distance is calculated in centimeters, but these electrodes do not compare the potential with each other, but with another electrode and further, this is a place close to the heart, where the potential is the strongest. So the sensor on the phone would have to be composed of several places from which the signal would be taken. Come on, that would be fine. The user would have to hold on to these places with two hands, one on one, the other on the other. I can't imagine the phone asking me to hold the phone in some weird way so it can measure me. Attaching to the chest also seems unrealistic to me. If we ignore all this, then there is the measurement itself, if you want to obtain the patient's ECG, the patient must lie down, have his eyes closed and his muscles relaxed, only then is the ECG standardized and usable for medical assessment. I'm not talking about prehistoric methods on old devices, but about the present. Active muscles are very disruptive to the EKG – they “shake it up” – as would holding a phone. And finally, I have never heard anything about the uniqueness of an individual's EKG image, the frequency and distance of individual points on the curve change with many factors, for example, exertion, age, diseases. This also applies to amplitudes. I also looked at pubmed, which is a database of professional medical articles, and nothing about this is written there (pubmed has millions and millions of articles from all branches of medicine, it would be there, I entered unique of heartbeat ecg and other variants). I would sum it up by saying that I think that with that original article someone is trying to screw someone up, that's my conclusion. I advise you, don't be fooled.
thank you very much for the opinion. Personally, I would give it time.
The only thing I find "controversial" about the patent is that they could punish JB users who are legal in America.
The identification of the heart rhythm comes to mind, but what doesn't come to mind is a warning against tachycardia and possibly an alarm from the authorized doctor in patients who have heart problems, the possibility of sensing pressure would also be useful. But either some external sensor would have to be connected via BT, or the phones would have to be worn in an elbow pad, similar to the series Visitor.