Tuesday, November 3, 2009

iPhone TIPS: OMG 1st IP Firewall for iPhone coming (Jailbreak), tech, news, Apple, 3GS, review, reports

Q: What is it
A: Probably the first ever firewall for the Apple iPhone.

Q: Do I need it?
A: Maybe, especially you id you have jailbroken your iPhone, enabled SSH server (don't forget to change the default password!), HTTP server or other server where people can try access your iPhone from the internet without your notice.

Q: How does it work?
A: Read this blog , basically two steps:

Step 1
When using a network-enabled application a prompt will be displayed giving you control over what hosts the application can connect to. As you can see the options are self explanatory:
- Allow once
- Deny once
- Always allow!
- Always deny!
- Allow all for this App
- Deny all for this App

A prompt will be display for each host, so the "Allow all" & "Deny all" options make it much easier if you are sure the iPhone app is well behaved.

Step 2
The second part of the Firewall application is a rules editor, here you can manage and edit any rules you may have added for any iPhone application.

Once you have selected an application, you will be able to drill down and configure the individual allow or deny rules."

Q: Releases?
A: Don't know actually ;) The blog suggests to follow or contact _Yllier_ on twitter.**Looking for an scratch proof iPhone 3G case?
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