In an epic case of irony, we have discovered that those who have jailbroken phones are the most capable of protecting it. For those that jailbreak, this is no surprise. Imagine if the only way to protect your windows pc was to wait around on microsoft to release a patch.

Since no patch has been release the best option is to disable SMS. The people over at quickpwn have put together a quick guide for you. Here it is.

How to disable the SMS App

1. Jailbreak your iPhone using either purplera1n or redsn0w
2. Go to Cydia, search for OpenSSH and install it
3. Download an SSH client (WinSCP for Windows users and Cyberduck for Mac)
4. Make sure WiFi is turned on, go to Settings -> WiFi. Select your network and check your iPhone’s IP. SSH in to your iPhone using the iPhone’s IP. Login with the Username: root and Password: alpine.
5. Navigate to the Applications directory
6. Locate the directory named MobileSMS.app. Right-click and click on properties. Where it says Permissions uncheck all the options.
7. Click OK.
8. To test if you did this right, tap the SMS app on your iPhone and it should crash when you launch it!

If you’re not going to apply this method and you receive an SMS with a small square character, turn your phone off immediately.

What a tease!!!

Apparently Microsoft has been working on an update for the 360, instead of adding more horsepower to the device, they’re giving it different functionality. I guess they got tired of Nintendo one upping them in the novelty department and decided to dish it back. They’ve developed a way to play games without the use of a controller.

The video makes it look really awesome, score one for marketing. However, if being a gamer has taught me anything, it’s to be skeptical of video game commercials. Too many times have I been burned by pre-rendered graphics and other awesomeness in the commercial that wasn’t delivered with the final product.

However, if this turns out to be as bad ass as the video makes it out to be, we could be looking at a Wii killer here.

I’ll let you check out the video for yourself after the break.