Guide To Building a Cable That Improves iOS Exploits

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 7, 2011 @09:09PM from the slurping-assistant dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "An Aussie network engineer has published a guide to building a serial cable connector that allows access to a secret kernel debugger hidden within Apple iOS. The debugger was a dormant iOS feature carried over from Apple OS, and seems to serves no function other than to allow hackers to build better exploits. The cable needs an external power source and a jailbroken device to access the debugger." We've mentioned Pollock's serial adapter kit before, modulo the kernel debugging abilities.

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Re:Having to jail break your own freaking phone by Haedrian · 2011-08-08 00:05 · Score: 3, Interesting

He used the assertion that it outsells "individual" phones as proof that apple got their strategy right. I disputed the his proof and not the conclusion.
If you notice his second sentence was "People want" which is a stepping stone based on how they're purchasing iPhones more than any other individual phone.