This is part two, the final part, in a short series about the attack in Bombay/Mumbai Part one here
We looked at the story of the possibility that someone tried fooling the Pakistani president with a fake phone call tht almost started a hot war between Pakistan and Indian. In this post we explore some technical aspect of how a hoax could go down and fool some basic protection system.
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It what every world leader fears to hear, a phone call by a hostile nation warning you that soon you might be on the receiving end of an attack. You must act quick, get ready a defense, prepare for a counter attack and maybe be ready to pull the big guns and get ready the WMDs. But, what if that phone call never happen? What happen if it was a hoax? That is what happen (reported) between Pakistan and India just hours after the bombings in bombay.
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So late year I reported on this during the iPhone 1.0 launch that you can find out during normal hours (my old blog home: http://zuhaib.typepad.com/my_blog/2007/06/apple-iphone-av.html ) , not just after 9PM as the apple iPhone website states ( http://www.apple.com/retail/iphone/availability.html ), the availability of iPhones at apple stores. You do this by going to a URL http://www.apple.com/retail/iphone/feeds/3g_us_inv.json and checking your state and local apple store as to if its “true” for in stock and “false” as for not.
ie:
Anam Ahmed is discussing.
{"name":"MacArthur Center","storeid":"R211","city":"Norfolk","url":"\/retail\/macarthurcenter\/",
"available":{"black8":true,"black16":false,"white16":true}}
that shows that MacArthur Center in Norfolk is already out of 3G 16GB Black iPhone (wow that is a mouth full). But is in stock for 8GBs Black and 16GB White.
The top says it has a date but it seems to be more abou the launch time then when it was late updated as when I checked at 12pm PDT everything was “true” but now already about 5pm PDT things are showing up false at some stores, and guess what? Its mostly the 16GB Black ones. I have not fully checked it out, as, I wanted to pownce and post this up on my blog first =P
They might just be updating it for 9pm for people on the east coast but it wont hurt to get an extra peak under the hood. Also it shows that mabe the reports of the holdback might not be true as they are reporting no stock of the the 16GB Black phones. Hope this helps anyone looking to buy a 3G iPhone (I will be waiting as I am having a lot of fun right now with my old one).
Testing
Anam Ahmed 11:42 pm on December 7, 2008 Permalink
Hi
First i would like to correct you here: “which India has since blamed on the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), it was banned in Pakistan so its EX-militant group. And its quite interesting that we are saying it was from the Foreign Minister Office and they dont believe it…Pakistan and India are in a never ending circle of blaming and pointing fingers at each other. Its been going on for so long and to me it seems like it will never end. First India goes under attack which i feel very sorry for and i mourn for the people who died but India blamed it on Pakistan. But they dont see that we are the victims as well, Pakistan is not going thru the gloriest times of it all either we have bombings from Talibans and its getting intense but its not in the news bc our stupid senseless media is not covering it and not letting the world know they we Pakistanis are victims too. 2 days ago a van blew up infront of a mosque killing 29 people in NWFP there was a rumour for a long time that oh Indians did it as a revenge for what “we” did. I mean what is this? What is happening to us? is everytime there is going to be a attack we are going to say India did it or Pakistan? People need to get some sense and try to get to the bottom of this.