iPhone Dev-Team Reveals How the iPhone Was Hacked

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Posted December 29, 2008 at 1:16pm by Shalom Levytam

The iPhone Dev-Team has revealed how the iPhone was hacked in an hour long video presentation at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.

This was the first time many of the team had met together offline and the video provides a very detailed explanation of the groups history and work.

Interestingly they note that at least 180 people with Apple corporate IPs update their phones using PwnageTool software on a regular basis

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Silvio - December 30, 2008 at 10:52pm

Very solid presentation in my opinion, concise and just enough information to explain the basics. Thoroughly enjoyed it! Well done, Dev Team.

Thomas - December 30, 2008 at 8:27am

The Dev Team presentation is interesting and exciting. However, I have an ominous feeling that this is bringing a close to this chapter. Hopefully, as always, they have charted their new direction. It just wouldn't be iPhone without the Dev Team. They have generated more interest and sold more iPhones than Apple could have ever dreamed. Without their support and selfless contributions, we would have never truly actualized the amazing potential of this amazing device. Cheers to the Dev team for all they have done for iPhone and for all of us!

Steve Anderson - December 31, 2008 at 8:23am

Why would you buy a phone off eBay costing more than 350 pounds then unlock it? You would have to purchase an internet add-on and credit the phone every week. On a contract, everything is inclusive. Unlocking might be ideal for a kid too young for a contract. I jailbroke my phone last night to prove a point; Cydia takes over 25 seconds to boot, and the whole phone slows down to a crawl. I'm unjailbreaking today to get my fast official phone back.

Steve Anderson - December 29, 2008 at 1:26pm

Still all pointless when jailbreaking is so crap on 2.2. Official apps crash all the time, hundreds a day. Unjailbreaking now because it's so flawed.

Rajiv - December 29, 2008 at 3:37pm

I'm sure there are others - like me - who've had little or no problems jailbreaking their iPhones (2Gs and 3Gs). Are you sure you were doing everything correctly? Were you using Cydia or Installer? I've had nearly zero problems jailbreaking since 1.1.3. Rajiv

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