In this instant episode of the hellyeah! show, we have a whole bunch of AT&T news, a roundup of PAX East 2012, Flashback trojan protection advice, a discussion of the Facebook/Instagram deal, and some talk about the Microsoft/AOL patent acquisition. We wrap things up with Emory’s call to AT&T customer support.
Check out the show notes after the break…
Emory’s stuff
- more DNS Crypt
- AT&T now lets users unlock their phones
- http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-unlock-iphone-20120409,0,4780796.story
- iA Writer for iOS (iPad/iPhone), Mac OS X
Alan’s stuff
- PAX East 2012
- keynote by Jordan Mechner
- concerts by Video Game Orchestra, Paul and Storm, Jonathan Coulton, and MC Frontalot
- classic consoles and arcade
Flashback trojan
- woo java!
- update/uninstall
- what’s java?
AT&T Microcell comes with a free root exploit
- sloppy hardening (thanks AT&T)
- remotely exploitable
- hijack call data
- http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/6/2931198/att-3g-microcell-fail0verflow
Facebook buys Instagram
- $1 billion in cash and stock
- first major acquisition by Facebook
- Instagram will operate as an independent company within Facebook
- Instagram has no revenue
- Zuckerberg: “We don’t plan on doing many more of these, if any at all.”
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/facebook-to-buy-instagram-photo-sharing-app/2012/04/09/gIQABMwM6S_story.html
Microsoft buys 800 AOL patents
- more than $1 billion for 800 patents ($1.3 million per patent)
- includes many early internet patents (search, email, IM, advertising, etc.)
- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/technology/microsoft-to-buy-aol-patents-for-more-than-1-billion.html
