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Passcode stealing app banned by Apple

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 15th, 2011)

Apple clamped down on the Big Brother Security App and removed the passcode-stealing lockscreen app from the App Store. Daniel Amitay is the developer behind the Big Brother app, which hit the headlines this week. The controversial app uses its own lockscreen and grabs the passcodes users enter ...

Most common iOS passcodes discovered by developer

by Mike Schramm (Jun 14th, 2011)

We're going to guess your passcode, the set of four numbers you use to get into your iPhone when you unlock it. Ready? Is it 1234? 0000? 1998? If it's any of those, you may want to change it. A developer named Daniel Amitay runs an app called Big Brother Camera Security that uses its own ...

Biometric face recognition for jailbroken iPhones with RecognizeMe

by Samuel Gibbs (May 18th, 2011)

Have you ever wished your iPhone 4 would recognize your face and let you past the lock screen? RecognizeMe, a facial recognition lock screen tweak for the jailbroken iPhone 4, does just that. Simply hit the RecognizeMe button on the lock screen and let the phone scan your face using the front ...

Found footage: Dashboard for iPhone on your lock screen

by Erica Sadun (Sep 24th, 2009)

Why didn't Apple think of this? SmartScreen lets you add widgets to your iPhone lock screen, providing an interactive dashboard experience whenever you wake up your device. The software is jailbreak-only (as you'd probably expect, given its standard system-defying functionality) and will be ...

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