With the upcoming release of the iphone in England and Germany, Apple have issue a new firmware (1.1.2) that patch the current jailbreak method based on the tiff exploit. A twin firmware for ipod touch was release also. It does not seems to appear that the new apple firmware introduce new features to the iphone. It however according to mac rumor the long time waited functionnaly to add an event in the calendar was added to the touch.
It seem’s that the 1.1.2 firmwae is already broken and the ipod touch is jaibreaked (see the screenshot ) and read this post to know more. Since the new firmware patch the tiff exploit (see endgadget screenshot below) I wonder want exploit is used. Since the jailbreak was so fast it is likely that the team had the exploit ready for many weeks and keep it secret. Thus my bet is it work even on old firemware.
European Union member states are expected to include digital biometric information in the form of two fingerprints on all ePassports. The deadline for compliance and migration to next-generation ePassports is set by the European Union for June 28, 2009. Germany is the first country in Europe to move over to the new system, starting this november. The addition of two fingerprint images in the ePassports requires an enhanced security procedure called Extended Access Control (EAC) . If you are interested in this technology read the nice slide presentation by Dennis Kügler about it. EAC aim at providing the necessary stronger cryptography to protect privacy sensitive data and to safeguard against cloning. The chip manufacturer for Germany is NXP Semiconductors a company founded by Phillips.
I wonder when we will have the same in France and who will be the chips manufacterer. I am still against biometric passport because biometric data are irrevocable. Which means that we can cancel them. If you lost your password, you can reset it, but if you loose your fingerprint data ? What can you do ? cut your finger ?
More details about the announcement for German passport can be found on the site MoreRFID
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