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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. Re:Pertinent word... by cheater512 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Are you sure that the reason why you only required 3 Mac support people wasn't because you only had two people using Macs? ;)

  2. Bill Gates just announced... by DanWS6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    First person to get windows running on the iphone 2.0 will receive a free copy of Microsoft Vista.

    1. Re:Bill Gates just announced... by Fnord666 · · Score: 3, Funny

      First person to get windows running on the iphone 2.0 will receive a free copy of Microsoft Vista.
      The second person will receive two copies of Microsoft Vista.
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      'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
  3. Re:Don't get your hopes up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And a few years ago he would've jumped on it as fast as a Tiger. And before that as fast as a Panther, a Jaguar, a Puma, or a Cheetah, depending on what year the comment was made.

  4. let me get this straight by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    now even hackers are releasing vaporware?

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it