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IT News<p>A Spectrophotometer Jailbreak to Resolve Colorful Disputes - The human eye’s color perception is notoriously variable (see, for example, the f... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/19/a-spectrophotometer-jailbreak-to-resolve-colorful-disputes/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/07/19/a-spec</span><span class="invisible">trophotometer-jailbreak-to-resolve-colorful-disputes/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/reverseengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reverseengineering</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/spectrophotometer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spectrophotometer</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/spectrophotometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spectrophotometry</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/firmwareupdate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firmwareupdate</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/serialnumber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>serialnumber</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pantone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pantone</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dosgame.club/@Tijn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Tijn</span></a></span> Shit like this should be illegal IMHO...</p><p>Could be worse tho...</p><p>Imagine it was <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iOS</span></a> being remotely bricked by <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> for being <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EoL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EoL</span></a>'d yet they refuse to provide future updates or unlock the devide so one could install i.e. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a> or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> or whatever on them instead...<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxaCUugPoRY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=UxaCUugPoR</span><span class="invisible">Y</span></a></p><p>Or an <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/iCloudLock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iCloudLock</span></a> because f**k <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/refurbishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>refurbishers</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SecondHand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecondHand</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UsedDevice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UsedDevice</span></a> resellers...<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzS2vwDUO9U" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ZzS2vwDUO9</span><span class="invisible">U</span></a></p><p>Or a remote-bricked <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> device due to stolen <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SerialNumber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SerialNumber</span></a>...<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifOifNBgyRg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ifOifNBgyR</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p>