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HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by jb0x168 »

thebean11 wrote: post #86
ralfd wrote: post #63

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I have no great experience with Bluetooth Speakers, but the magic of the HomePod is that they use Airplay 2 which piggybacks on WiFi and has some advantages: - AirPlay uses lossless compression to stream audio from source to speaker. All Bluetooth audio streaming uses lossy compression. - AirPlay has the capability of playing across a much larger distance and with a solid connection between devices than Bluetooth. -…

I might be misunderstanding, so if all I have are iPhones and MacBooks, this actually would allow me to play arbitrary audio from my devices?

Yes. If you use an app like AirParrot, you can do it from windows as well. Can't speak to android specifically but I believe there's an App For That as well.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by throwaway894345 »

entropea wrote: post #97
throwaway894345 wrote: post #71

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OP may also care about privacy.

Do you have the homepod code or are you just going by what a trillion dollar company that does plenty of shady things advertises to you?

Do you the source code for the microcode running on your CPU or are you just going by the corporate advertising? :)

Obviously we have to put some trust in corporations if we're not to live a purely analog existence, and so it stands to reason that we can put a little more trust in a company whose business model is selling premium hardware (and which increasingly sees privacy as a competitive advantage) than a company whose business model is selling your personal data to advertisers.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by realusername »

kevindong wrote: post #84
realusername wrote: post #67

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> I prefer to have my devices work with minimal effort on my part, and with "good enough" security I can trust. I mean, everyone has their own acceptable definition of security, I also don't use Apple devices because I cannot check the security of it and any action I could take regarding securing it better means I need to exploit my device...

How do you check the security of _any_ device (e.g. Android, laptop, TV, watch, etc. basically anything that contains software that communicates with external servers) that you purchase? Even with open source projects, it'd be a Herculean task to confirm that your purchased devices actually contain the same source code that's published (e.g. imagine trying to confirm that the firmware on your wifi card is actually wh…

> How do you check the security of _any_ device (e.g. Android, laptop, TV, watch, etc. basically anything that contains software that communicates with external servers) that you purchase?

I generally try first to buy hardware I can install myself the OS, that removes the temptation of the manufacturer to use the product as a data gathering tool.

> Even with open source projects, it'd be a Herculean task to confirm that your purchased devices actually contain the same source code that's published (e.g. imagine trying to confirm that the firmware on your wifi card is actually what it says it is).

When it's open source, there are always more eyeballs on the system, it's not perfect but it's always a better guarantee of security and privacy.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by zrobotics »

reaperducer wrote: post #76
count wrote: post #54

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Yes, it depends on taste. Those are just boxes...

They look like the sort of pack-in speakers you got free with a Packard Bell computer in 1993.

Not to dogpile, but do you remember the 90s? In 1993, computer hardware that wasn't SGI wasn't allowed to be any color besides Beige, to the point that in the late 90s having a black PC was a design trend instead of the default.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by RedFoxMechanic »

entropea wrote: post #97
throwaway894345 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP may also care about privacy.

Do you have the homepod code or are you just going by what a trillion dollar company that does plenty of shady things advertises to you?

apple makes 1/100th the revenue from ads that google does, so it's very clear which is abusing user data to do so

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by nicwolff »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #66
semi-extrinsic wrote: post #38

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What's the trouble with buying any of the competition, if you want those features? You can get a Klipsch R51 PM for quite a bit less than the price of two HomePods. Better audio, Bluetooth, aux, optical, USB, even phono pre-amp in case you have a turntable.

One feature I like about HomePods and Airplay is stereo pairing. If you have two, you can link them, stream to one, and they automatically play in Stereo. Can other non-Apple alternatives do anything like that? https://support.apple.com/guide/homepod/set-up-stereo-pairin...

Denon HEOS

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by ryukafalz »

jedberg wrote: post #88
Nextgrid wrote: post #42

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> a car has a software / OS that is locked down For as long as cars (and other motor vehicles) existed people have been able to work on them including on safety systems such as brakes, and the lack of widespread accidents because of this doesn't support the idea of locking them down now .

People make this argument a lot, but the main counterpoint is that if you sell faulty brakes, it's hard for someone externally to exploit that on a massive scale. If you sell faulty car software, it's easy for someone to exploit that remotely on a massive scale.

How exactly does blocking car owners from working on their cars stop someone from exploiting them on a massive scale?

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by reaperducer »

zrobotics wrote: post #106
reaperducer wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They look like the sort of pack-in speakers you got free with a Packard Bell computer in 1993.

Not to dogpile, but do you remember the 90s? In 1993, computer hardware that wasn't SGI wasn't allowed to be any color besides Beige , to the point that in the late 90s having a black PC was a design trend instead of the default.

do you remember the 90s?

I do remember the 90's. I wasn't a fan of it.

computer hardware that wasn't SGI wasn't allowed to be any color besides Beige

I used to dream about one day pounding away on SGI gear. I eventually (early/mid-2000's) got moved to an office with meteorologists that had Indigos and Octanes, and I think Irisseseses. Blue was awesome. But then they all got replaced by generic Dell machines. Ick.

I remember back before all computers looked the same. Back when keyboards were vastly different between models, and would have blue or red or brown or very rarely green keys. Standardization? That was for the Telex at work. Computers were going to free us from that tyranny. Except they didn't.

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