iPhone 1.1.1 firmware officially hacked, Apple cant stop the crooks
Just like Sony did with the PSP, Apple’s learning the hard way. Apple can’t stop hackers from allowing consumers to get what they really want out of their iPhones.
Announced earlier today at the Hackint0sh forum and TUAW, the iPhone Dev Team hacking community has officially "jailbreaked" the iPhone.
They haven’t released a general use tool yet, so if you’re looking to jailbreak your iPhone, you better make sure you brush up on those 1337 hacking skills. But fear not, they’re working to release an easy to use tool soon.
They’ve still got a bit of work to do as the jailbreak is still in a very rough form. Regardless, TUAW would like to thank: dinopio, asap18, netkas, Martyn, mjc, Niacin, BloomFilter, pytey, tE_gU, pumpkin, roxfan, sam, SmileyDude, NerveGas, Nate True, Arminius, DirectriX, ixtli, kroo, zibri, xorl, and the rest of the hacking community.
Just to recap, one of the first hacks occurred on one of the original iPhone’s running the original, un-updated firmware by a teen who completed the task hardware style with soldering tools and all.
Then came the onslaught of software hacks for the original firmware. Unlocks and 3rd party apps were running rampant, allowing consumers to do nearly anything they want with their devices.
It was at this point that Apple mentioned publicly that it wouldn’t try to stop iPhone and iPod Touch hackers. That attitude didn’t last long and Apple took back the statement, warning iPhone hacking individuals that the next firmware update may permanently break your device.
Unsurprisingly, Apple released the 1.1.1 firmware update, which managed to stop any and all hacks on all the iPhones that went through with the update. The general consensus on the Internet was that if you hacked your iPhone, don’t update the firmware. At the time, those that accidentally updated their hacked units were left with stock, unhackable phones. Luckily, someone was able to figure out a way to downgrade the firmware back to 1.0.2.
Up until now, you either had to keep your iPhone on the old firmware or downgrade your to 1.0.2 in order to keep the hacks alive. Thankfully, that soon won’t be the case.
Here’s to hoping the dev team can use the information they’ve learned about the iPhone’s new firmware to hack the iPod Touch.
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