You know me, I don't like to complain

Open or closed, the iPhone is the best mobile platform ever. It has managed to upset every other vendor in this space with something users wanted. This is in no small part due to Apple’s rigorously policed platform, that many people are critical of:

Apple, Give Us a “Freedom of Choice” Button | Electronic Frontier Foundation

I would like to have a “developer mode” for users of the iPhone that doesn’t require signed code (and doesn’t require a paid Apple ADC membership). I don’t think Apple’s reasons for not having one are nefarious or malicious — they like to control the user experience so that it is consistently the best. I’ve used a BlackBerry, S60 devices (Nokia N-series, E-series handsets), Sony Ericsson UIQ, Palm OS, Maemo, and others. They all sucked. They all had terrible software, terrible applications, and the hardware was slow and ugly.

The EFF doesn’t tell you that many applications do store their data in open formats (raw text and XML for example) and that it supports vCard and vCal.

The other side of the coin the EFF shows you is nicely summarized by Marco Arment:

Great since day one

"next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn’s early my
country tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water"

-e. e. cummings

I am writing a paper or article (not sure on direction yet) on WoW RMT and account compromises and would like to speak with the following:

a) People on or off-the-record from Blizzard willing to talk about RMT and account compromises for World of Warcraft
b) People from a RMT operation (staff/support/management/executive)
c) People that has access to corporate/institutional VPN servers and firewalls and would like to discuss intrusions on those services
d) People that knowingly participate in deploying malware or phishing sites to compromise battlenet/WoW account credentials or use those accounts to sell in-game Gold wholesale or individually. (Long shot but what the hell)

If you can refer people to me or are otherwise uncomfortable speaking to me without some level of anonymity you may refer them to emolate@elitistjerks.com or use it yourself from an address you are able to receive future correspondence at.

Not many of us get to be loved “4ever”

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