Jailbreaking iPhone 2.0 - YiPhone vs PWNED - Where’s ZiPhone
There has been allot going on this weekend with the jailbkreak and unlocking of iPhone 2.0. Unfortunately/fortunately I was at a wedding yesterday so I missed allot of it, but I am glad to be here today to post the craziness that’s been going on, or as they would say in Trinidad, “bacchanal”.
The Dev Team have been working really hard on a really great new version of their jailbreaking, activating, and unlocking tool called PWNED/PWNAGE that allows you to build custom firmwares that can be bundled unlocked with Installer and other custom settings, so a simple restore leaves the users iPhone/Touch unlocked, jailbreaked and activated, ready to be used as they wish in any country. Below is another new video from the Dev Team, this time showing BootNeuter (the unlocking part of PWNED) working on a first gen iPhoen with firmware 2.0 installed.
Bootneuter 2.0 from iphonedev on Video.
GeoHot made some comments on his blog over the weekend that seems to have sparked some debate between himself and the dev team .Here is the source of all the bacchanal.
So I read this on gizmodo. Here’s the truth…
Post beta 4, the ramdisk hack stopped working. Sorry Zibri, guess you’ll have to steal another exploit. They also changed the recovery mode USB protocol to use the control endpoint to send commands.
The possiblity of unlocking, which is very distinct from jailbreaking, is based entirely on the baseband bootloader. Apple doesn’t appear to upgrade the bootloader on phones in the field, probably for fear of breaks. So any old iPhones out there today, regardless of version, can be unlocked.
The iPhone 3G uses a different bootloader, which I believe there aren’t any known exploits in yet. So no unlock.
There is a known exploit in iBoot, on both the old and 3G iPhones. The “the specific date/time is not firm yet” pwnage tool will leverage it to jailbreak all 2.0 software iPhones, 3G and otherwise. Dev team, that date better be soon or I might just have to release yiPhone. The iBoot exploit is yours, use it. You wouldn’t want a repeat of ZiPhone now…“
ROFLMAO @ Zibri - the YiPhone link takes you to a yiphone.org (some sort of timer on it counting the hours until it’s released), that is a direct play on ZiPhone and has this ridiculous picture - LOL. This must have ruffled Zibri’s feathers pretty badly, because he has posted this on his blog:
“Talks, lies, haters, fans.I’m sick of this! This is not a war and not even a game. I originally developed ZiPhone for my own use. Then people asked me to release it and I did. I bought my first iPhone in Semptember 2007.I released ZiPhone in February 2008. I know you people are crazy about the iPhone but believe me, I am not. I think the 3g iPhone is not worth even buying for people who already have the first generation iPhone. GPS ? I have a TomTom Go device. 3G data ? I have a 7.2 Mb/s card in my laptop. Apps? I have my iPhone. Everything else ? I have my life ! IF and WHEN there will be a new ZiPhone you will be informed. Stop asking, hating, begging. By the way, maybe you don’t know the difference, but ZiPhone was a real hack. Software upgrades or custom firmwares are a totally different thing. A nice proof of concept, a nice work, but that’s not hacking.. But if that will ever be released and that suits your needs, use it. You’ll be (hopefully) happy.
Another note:I’m being reported of many people faking me on many blogs and sites. Check the profile (if there’s one). And don’t take as gold any word from me that you don’t read here ! To any hacker out there: FACTS speaks louder than words. Peace out, Zibri”
ROFLMAO x2 - sounds to me like he got called out on stealing the exploits that he was using before and now he cant deliver anything because the stolen exploit he was using, no longer works! “Hello?” more like “Goodbye!”
The Dev Team claims that one of the team members must have leaked a copy of the PWNAGE exploit to Geohot, and that’s why he is trying to provoke them into making an early release. Maybe that’s why he is dressing up like Zibri and threatening to release it just as Zibri did.
The Dev Team have been under so much pressure by the community, iPhone users and recently GeoHot, that they have even issued a very interesting statement - that I suggest you read. It sums up GeoHot’s involvement in the Dev Team and the iPhone and why they have not released PWNED yet, and I agree. More haste, less speed. Below is taken from the Dev Teams statement to GeoHot and the community - Rush, rush, rush….
“The majority of iPhone users are not technical - they want an easy, one-stop, simple application that will allow them to quickly and painlessly unlock their phone. If we were to release a crummy command-line based tool that does the immediate job that everyone is screaming for, we’d only end up in the following situation:
1) The technique is released to the world and people use this technique to quickly create GUI apps that they charge cash-money for, or re-release something hacky and horrible that bricks lots of devices, or for example disables the WiFi that then causes more stress that ultimately comes back to us”
2) The technique is exposed to the vendor, allowing them to locate and repair the security hole. Sometimes these security holes span product versions, for example: between the first generation and second generation iPhone. In such a case releasing the knowledge in the middle of the product development cycle is pointless and risks the “usefulness” of the technique - especially if there are existing hacks/techniques that work just fine.
A rushed utility like PWNED, that isn’t working properly, can potentially brick possibly millions of iPhones world wide. A simple terminal version would be like Chinese arithmetic to others who wouldn’t know where to start, and those that understood it, would either repackage it with a crummy GUI and sell it for a fortune or would set up shop and exploit others with unlocking services.
Both scenarios would only come back to haunt them, firstly in the form of bad publicity, and then more importantly, a HUGE surge of disgruntled users with iPhones in all sorts of states of misery, needing tech support on IRC and Hackint0sh.org. It takes testing and perfecting to have a successful launch of any product or software.
So the race is on, GeoHot vs the Dev Team, YiPhone vs PWNED, which comes first? Who will win, will we ever hear from Zibri agian? Stay tuned for more.
Update: please check out the updated videos from the Dev Team showing that they have access gotten full write access to the iPhone OS.
Categories and Tags 3G iPhone, Rumors, What's New, iPhone Unlock Updates
