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Apple recently countered against the Electronic Frontiers Foundation's request to the US Copyright Office to make an exemption to the DMCA and permit iPhone jail breaking. Apple claims an exemption would leave a phone's baseband processor (BBP) open to malicious hackers. From here, hackers could then circumvent data and call payments, make anonymous phone calls "desirable to drug dealers" and even initiate commands to render cell towers inoperable. The argument that phone hacking is particularly "desirable to drug dealers" and corporate terrorists is an amusing one given that Apple's co-founders are themselves known to have experimented with phone phreaking in their youth.

What we thought might have been an AIR app in the making, may be something entirely different. With social video sharing sites such as Youtube and Vimeo it can be hard to keep the recommendations flowing. Hundreds of videos are added to these sites daily, but only a select few are really worth our time. With no easy way to sort through these uploads, Vimeo is asking the community for help in finding a solution. Today the site has announced the launch of Vimeo Toys. These toys aims to give users an interactive and visually appealing way to find more video content. Here's a look at what's available.