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Unreleased iPhone 2.0 May Already Be Hacked

Posted by Zonk on from the who-gave-the-hackers-time-travel-machines dept.

The as-yet unreleased second iteration of iPhone hardware may already be compromised, reports Engadget and News.com. Members of the 'iPhone Dev Team' have (supposedly) made use of the recently released SDK to gin up a Beta 2.0 software hack. "Unlike previous hacks, this one isn't specific to the latest firmware version, it exploits the way that Apple designed the iPhone's main bootloader. According to the iPhone Dev Team, the iPhone verifies whether or not firmware code has been signed with an RSA certificate before allowing it to be written to memory. The team has apparently figured out a way to disable that check and allow unsigned code to be written to memory."

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  1. Blame and shame by jonaskoelker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Shame on the hackers! How dare they! They are evil people for breaking the security of the almighty Jobs! Oh, and shame on Jobs, we expect your products to be secure. Wait, Apple are imperfect? [Head asplodes].

  2. Re:A slow death, like the PSP by PC+and+Sony+Fanboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh wait, It WILL die, but not until apple says so (go planned obsolescence, I choose you!)

  3. on any other platform... by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ... this would be called a security vulnerability and if it was MS/Sony you'd all be screaming for a class action. but because it's apple, the fanboys put a spin on it to seem like a good thing.

    and another thing - why the fuck waste all this effort on the iphone when there are other devices out there that don't require this hack and patch dick size contest?

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