FCC To Apple: Request For iPhone Confidentiality - DENIED!

In a June 1st 2008 letter to the FCC Robert Steinfeld (EMC & Wireless Compliance Manager at Apple Inc.) stated:

Although Apple has begun to market the device publicly, these documents reveal technical and design information that has not been publicly disclosed in such marketing and that is protected by Apple as confidential and proprietary trade secrets. This information has been disclosed to those required to maintain its confidentiality, and is not customarily diclosed publicly prior to the commercial release would warm Apple by giving competitors an unfair market advantage. Apple believes the period of confidentiality requested is necessary to protect the information until the commercial release of the device.

Apple requested that the following be withheld "...from public viewing
indefinately"

• Block Diagram
• Operational Description
• Internal Photographs
• Radio Schematic
• Radio Bill of Material
• Antenna Gain and Patterns

Apparently the FCC decided to publish much of this information anyway:


POA
Confidentiality Request
Cover Letter
Request for superceeding
External Photos
Label
Internal Photos rev1
Calibration Certificate dipole 850 MHz
Calibration Certificate dipole 1900 MHz
Calibration Certificate E Filed Probe
SAR Report
System Perforance Tests
SAR test plots 1

SAR test plots 2
SAR test plots 3
Test Report WWAN
Test Setup Photos SAR
Test Setup Photos
User Manual

AT&T Reaches 73% Completion on 3G Network

We are just weeks away from Apple's release of the 3G iPhone. In anticipation for the 3G iPhone, AT&T has been hard at work on their 3G network.

As of yesterday AT&T reported 73% completion. According to PRNewswire,

"Today the superfast AT&T 3G network is available in more than 275 markets. By year-end, the AT&T 3G network will be available in nearly 350 markets."

"With the new addition of HSUPA technology, AT&T 3G users can enjoy uplink speeds between 500 and 800 Kbps. The technology is available in all but the few remaining AT&T 3G markets and will be included in all future deployments. The new upload speeds complement AT&T's 3G download capabilities, which currently offer up to 1.4 Mbps across all markets for customers who have capable devices, such as AT&T's LaptopConnect wireless modems."

This should provide broadband speed access for those who purchase a 3G iPhone due out later next month!

Also check out: AT&T 3G Coverage Area

iPhone Smoothie

iPhone holds 150 ka-billion contacts

Steve Jobs recently appeared on SNL's Weekend Update.
Let's review the features:

- 2 billion songs
- movies
- iChat
- iPhoto
- 10 - way iConference Call
- On/Off button
- High resolution screen
- 150 kabillion contacts
- clock
- automatic best friend what-what
- flashlight
- starbucks
- iGenie with three iWishes
- 20 minute battery life

Conan's iPhone Commercial

Apple Employee responds to iPhone hacker

As always, when a new high profile tech device becomes available, hackers get an itchin' to hack. Roel over at http://www.virualist.com gives two reasons for a peaked interest by hackers:

#1: The iPhone will become the preferred target for writers of mobile malware.
#2: The iPhone is going to run a slimmed down version of OS X. Although it won’t be running the same architecture it's plausible that both OS X for Workstations and OS X for iPhone may have at least some of the same vulnerabilities.

Hacker battles it out with Apple employee

Halvar Flake says "with all this hoopla around the iPhone, is this beast running an ARM ? I have doubts about a mobile device being based on x86, so does anyone have details about what sort of shellcode needs to be written ? "

Response by Simon Cooper Apple Employee

"Do you really want to know the answer to this question? Do you want
to demonstrate your skill in developing a platform that is resistant
to malware?


If so, then you should apply, get offered and accept the software
security position I currently have open at Apple. This is work in
Core OS for Mac OS X.


I am not a recruiter - I am the hiring manager. Email me if you are interested.


--
Simon Cooper
ORIGINAL POST HERE!

Whoa..slam slam, the battle is on. I have a feeling Apple just might become as big a target for hackers as Microsoft is now.

Speculation abounds

Speculation abounds when no tech specifications have even been released yet. In an e-mail interview, one of the hackers behind the Month of Apple Bugs project, which is disclosing new Apple security vulnerabilities every day for the month of January, said he "would love to mess with" the iPhone. "If it's really going to run OS X, [the iPhone] will bring certain security implications, such as potential misuses of wireless connectivity facilities, [and] deployment of malware in a larger scale," the hacker known as LMH wrote in an e-mail. He declined to provide his real name.

"I can't wait to get one," said Maynor, chief technology officer with Errata Security. "There's already a lot of discussion going on, and it's not coming out for another six months. People are salivating over it."

It's on!!!!!