Leif just directed my attention towards an ongoing thread over at MMi…

…the people responsible for the JMCO source jmwiki.com have internally created a malicious source with the sole intention of mucking up people’s iPhones.

This source adds an app in installer that pretends to be an update of erica’s utilities. The app appears in installer as 113 prep.

Once installed all this app does is it says “shoes.” When uninstalled this app removes a lot of files from the /bin directory on the iphone, breaking valid apps like sendfile and other erica utilities.

We strongly encourage you remove the JMCO source from Installer. Also — whatever you do — DO NOT install “113 prep.”

- source: modmyifone.com

It would seem Apple has set a new course of obstacles for iPhone hackers to maneuver around… According to Nate True, if your iPhone has never been unlocked and you attempt a downgrade from 1.1.3, you’ll end up with a brick. That is until you upgrade back to 1.1.3 again. Unlocked phones fail the 1.1.3 baseband upgrade completely; meaning it won’t work afterwards.

Nate True quotes…

If your iPhone has never been unlocked, downgrading from 1.1.3 will leave you bricked until you upgrade back to 1.1.3, as far as I can tell. The phone (even with an authentic AT&T SIM) reports an Incorrect SIM while iTunes says there’s no SIM at all, when you’ve downgraded back to 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 (1.0.x untested).

If your phone was unlocked, the baseband upgrade fails on 1.1.3, so you will not have this problem but will not get 1.1.3 to work.

Obviously this may change once Apple releases the firmware officially but I do not count that as likely.

Has Apple taken the lead again: Hackers — 1, Apple — 2?

- source: cre.ations.net

Earle from iFone Arcade sent word the other day, Connect 4 is now iPhone-enabled and available for online play. Connect remotely with players from around the globe and line four of ‘em up to win. It’s a classic, you know what it’s all about. The concept is simple: (Wikipedia describes it best)

Connect Four (also known as Plot Four, Four In A Row, and Four In A Line) is a two-player board game in which the players take turns in dropping alternating colored discs into a seven-column, six-row vertically-suspended grid. The object of the game is to connect four singly-colored discs in a row — vertically, horizontally, or diagonally — before your opponent can do likewise.

Browse over to ifonearcade.com via Mobile Safari on your iPhone and/or iPod Touch. Register and enjoy.

Other games such as Battleship and Tic-Tac-Toe are available too.