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tuaw.com — This new one-touch jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access and installs Installer.app so you can add pretty much any third party application you like. All you have to do is navigate from your iPhone or iPod touch to the page, read the directions, scroll down, and tap the button. Wait until the "slide-to-unlock" screen appears (30 secs)

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  • adroit, on 10/30/2007, -2/+29at least this will hold me off until February!
    • rompom7, on 10/29/2007, -22/+3I'm getting pretty tired of the 'jailbreak' term. Seriously, was it the same guy that came up with 'JesusPhone'?
      • sockpuppets, on 10/29/2007, -13/+9IDontcare.
      • madmage, on 10/30/2007, -1/+22It's an old Unix term, if the user can't get into the root of the OS, the box was "jailed" a major security concern for corporations were ways to gain root access, or to "jailbreak" the box without opening the box, inside the software.
    • Seidoger, on 10/29/2007, -13/+4I've been hearing jailbreaking ever since you can restrict users to a certain area of a UNIX file system.
      JesusPhone is just silly, though.
    • OhFrak, on 10/29/2007, -31/+3Just think, come February you'll be laughed at in public like the rest of the tiny number of emo dorks who were dumb enough to buy an overpriced and under-featured iPhone.

      But at least you'll feel 'special', right?

      • adroit, on 10/29/2007, -3/+15i think you are just jealous.
        • OhFrak, on 10/29/2007, -19/+2What a loser. Please rush right out and buy one of those pieces of *****.

          Make sure to cuddle it like a teddy bear at night dork.

        • jonoxplor, on 10/29/2007, -2/+7OhFrak, seriously you are really cool trolling on Digg.
      • lostarchitect, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2Wow, you have really caused me to see the light! What would I have done with my pathetic life if OhFrak hadn't come along to show me the True Way! Thank you, great OhFrak!
    • spargett, on 10/29/2007, -1/+10Yeah, but there's no guarantee about what apps you'll be getting in February. Chances are good that Apple won't approve of some, or many of your favorite apps (thanks to early "hackers"). Hopefully we can continue to have our cake and eat it too! Or would it be more appropriate to call it Apple pie?

      P.S. Super special thank you to all the guys who worked on this. You deserve every donation you get.
      • edwartica, on 10/29/2007, -2/+1Its the only pie you'll ever eat, isn't it?"
    • EBFoxbat, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1A whole bunch of apps from other repositories still don't work on 1.1.1
    • magicmarc, on 10/29/2007, -1/+1For curious folk who aren't using an iphone,
      direct link to TIFF:
      http://conceitedsoftware.com/jb*/magic.tif

      (REMOVE THE *)
  • Dingoboy, on 10/31/2007, -5/+30It works!!!! Thanks so much, I have been regretting ever doing the update. I now have my phone back.
    • mysql101, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4I had my doubts, but tried it just now. It did work, flawlessly. But then my AT&T couldn't get online. I freaked. After rebooting it a second time everything worked. I'm one happy camper, vt100, vnc, gps, great! Just need a good AIM client cause the one they supply couldn't connect for me.
    • mysql101, on 10/29/2007, -8/+0I had my doubts, but tried it just now. It did work, flawlessly. But then my AT&T couldn't get online. I freaked. After rebooting it a second time everything worked. I'm one happy camper, vt100, vnc, gps, great! Just need a good AIM client cause the one they supply couldn't connect for me.
    • vvaduva, on 10/30/2007, -0/+8It would be VERY handy to note that your third party apps will not work until you install the BSD subsystem package...
  • moeyy, on 10/29/2007, -20/+7awesome! Thats pretty neet how it automatically installs and jailbreaks.... hmm, we might need an iPhone Norton soon.
    • durrty, on 10/29/2007, -0/+25Please god tell me you aren't referring to Norton anti-virus, we will NEVER need any form of Norton, for anything.
      • stoanhart, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2Did you know Norton makes an AV program for Mac? The iMacs at my uni have norton installed...
        • lostarchitect, on 10/30/2007, -1/+4now there's a great way to waste a lot of money (and system resources).
        • cyberoidx, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2Actually, lostar, i'm Pretty sure Norton payed the uni to get their sad-as-ass piece of crap on the system
      • edwartica, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3Norton IS a virus.
    • KloroFormd, on 10/29/2007, -0/+5Yes! It would be awesome to have a completely unresponsive phone in case of an emergency due to lack of memory!
  • brettschulte, on 10/29/2007, -9/+2I'm testing the beta on iPhones. Very slick.
    • lostarchitect, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3you're testing the beta of... what, exactly?
  • zweben, on 10/29/2007, -19/+7What puzzles me is why anyone is still making applications for the iPhone with the hacked together API, when Apple has announced that they are working on their own official API that should be ready in a few months.

    I really doubt that any of the current third party apps are going to work with the real API... everyone is going to have to start from scratch. Wouldn't it just be easier to wait?
    • Bootes, on 10/29/2007, -6/+9These hacked apps will probably continue to be better. I could be wrong, but I don't think Apple is going to be opening the phone up too much.
    • Mono1ith, on 10/29/2007, -0/+18Yeah . . . why would anybody want immediate gratification when they could just wait four months?
      • vh1`, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3let's not mention trying out various ideas on such a device
        there's obviously no point
    • koko775, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4Actually, if you follow Apple, it seems fairly likely that their APIs will be pretty compatible. The API being used isn't 'hacked together' so much as it is reverse engineered. So with that in mind, programming stuff now might actually turn out to be productive in the long run.
    • starkruzr, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4Why would anyone have to start from scratch? There will be minimal changes to the API at that point at most.

      You demonstrate a profound lack of understanding of programming.
    • CMiYC, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1No, in fact, the hacked 3rd party apps are simply providing hooks into the existing API. While it is possible that code will not be 100% compatible, it will not be the case of "starting from scratch." In the worst case, if the code has to be scrapped, learning how to program for the device is transferable. For example, how make best of the screen or learning a new way to keep important data persistent, or learning to deal with your app running in a more closed environment.
      There is a lot that can be learned from programming the iPhone now.
  • redrighthand, on 10/29/2007, -10/+50so easy a caveman could do it..
    • pr3ttyr0ckin519, on 02/20/2008, -0/+0how? this didnt work on my ipod touch
  • zeromancer, on 11/10/2007, -9/+197wait. you just go to a website and your phone is unlocked? the iphone is CLEARLY running IE5.5
    • enderiii, on 11/09/2007, -0/+64This jailbreak also patches the vulnerability it uses.
      • sholt, on 10/30/2007, -1/+39I'm more concerned with "go to a webpage and your phone's operating system is permanently modified" but...hey, who needs security in a bowser anyway? We've only been flaming MS for things like this for what? 10 years now?
        • stalefries, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1It's not permanent, if you do a restore, it's back to factory-fresh normal.
    • sholt, on 10/29/2007, -1/+12not only that:
      1) Grab corrupted TIFF from site
      2) modify it to grab addresses from addressbook and self-replicate
      3) e-mail it to your iPhone owning friends
      4) ...
      5) Profit!
      • enderiii, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2If you don't trust the iPhone Dev team by now sit down and shut the ***** up.
        • sholt, on 10/29/2007, -2/+1it doesn't have to be the dev team doing it, you know. It's not like they use secret white-hat magic.
  • PathDaemon, on 10/30/2007, -7/+36Mmkay, now I know that there's DEFINITELY a security vulnerability in MobileSafari...
    Yeah, guys, don't store any confidential or personal ***** on your iPhones for now.
    • psylence, on 10/29/2007, -1/+4Or ever?
    • nreynolds, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1When they fix it, just make sure they let us turn the fix on or off...
    • enderiii, on 10/30/2007, -0/+31This jailbreak also patches the vulnerability it uses.
    • yabos, on 10/29/2007, -0/+5Which is exactly the reason Apple wants to make it secure. If you can get something installed by browsing a website, well that's not good at all. The biggest security hole is the iPhone runs as root right now.
      • CMiYC, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Running as root really bugs me. I'm not sure I understand how someone could have made the decision that apps run as root.
        I wonder if when the API opens up if new firmware will "fix" this issue.
      • cyberoidx, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Logging in to the phone everytime you restart is the most wanted feature for you, isn't it?
    • ridd1e, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1You know that iPhone stores everything you write (yes, passwords too) in plain text file for learning purposes? :]
  • Bootes, on 10/29/2007, -3/+4I spent all night last night setting up a new iPhone. :( This would have saved me a lot of time.
  • cowardlybunny, on 10/29/2007, -23/+2Dugg,

    the site shoulda been called iJailbreak

    lol
  • dinopio, on 10/29/2007, -10/+4yweehaaaa
  • cowardlybunny, on 10/29/2007, -25/+1Shoulda been called ijailbreakme.com
  • colonels1020, on 10/30/2007, -22/+2Burried as ancient.
  • a3r0, on 10/30/2007, -6/+60Wow, it's a huge bug if code can be executed just from viewing an image.
    • Firehed, on 10/30/2007, -0/+32Yeah, it is. That's why it's called a tiff "exploit".
  • sportz103, on 10/29/2007, -6/+8Just did this 5 minutes before it hit main page. Worked like a charm on my iPhone.
  • andy2na, on 10/29/2007, -2/+3note: you can only do this if you have legit AT*T iphone service or on the ipod Touch. Does not work if you need to activate and unlock your phone first.

    Confirmed working on legit ATT iphone and an ipod touch here. A virgin, out of box iphone that is going to be used on a different carrier cannot access mobile safari to run this.
    • polywaffle, on 10/29/2007, -0/+5uhh, read down the page a bit, it works on unactivated phones too.
  • manjy90, on 10/29/2007, -24/+4I don't have an Iphone, I just wanted to get my comment posted on a story that will end up getting 1500+ Diggs
    • manjy90, on 10/29/2007, -17/+2Sorry about the cheap shot Iphone owners, but seriously, I don't have an Iphone, I will not get an Iphone, so I don't give a rat's ass about an Iphone. Yes, I am an idiot for commenting on this story, but hey, I don't see any stories about the ATT Tilt for me to comment on.
  • Legolover64, on 11/09/2007, -5/+2131: Go into Apple store.
    2: Jailbreak all iPhones/iPod touches
    3: Install Ants
    4: Walk out knowing you've helped the world
    • jmeskimen, on 10/30/2007, -0/+45No profit?
    • adroit, on 10/31/2007, -1/+32Best idea ever. Probably better to assemble a team to speed things up and not look suspicious touching every single iphone in the store.
    • jarinudom, on 03/31/2008, -14/+4I love it when some ***** ruins things for everyone
    • InitialDMP5, on 10/29/2007, -0/+16I think apple might be blocking that site or doing something. When I walked by the apple store here in SF earlier tonight (around 9:30pm) The whole staff was around all the iPhones doing something. It could be unrelated, but they were closed and that many people are never there at that time of night. Apple has blocked a few sites like myspace from their stores already because people were just using the machines for hours and not getting off.
      • brettschulte, on 10/30/2007, -0/+14They're not that fast. We'll hit every store in LA by noon!
      • xkorbin, on 10/29/2007, -1/+4They re-image them nightly. Computers are re-imaged every other day. (at least in our apple store)
      • babybirdhome, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2I've never had to use my computer for hours and not gotten off. Weird that people would want to do this on a phone in a store though. PC screens are so much bigger! Then again, I'm pretty sure I've never gotten off by surfing myspace either, so maybe that's the problem.
    • thailand1972, on 10/30/2007, -7/+8I got some ants, a whole colony of them. Do I just release them in the shop?
    • Revolution101, on 10/29/2007, -1/+3Do it... for me.
    • alchemist2012, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1PLEASE, how do I install Ants on my Ipos toouch 1.1.1??? thank you very much, my mail is lmda2012@gmail.com
  • ZaNkY, on 10/29/2007, -2/+10For further reading on how this is most probably done check out:

    http://blog.metasploit.com/2007/09/root-shell-in-m ...
    http://blog.metasploit.com/2007/10/cracking-iphone ...
    http://blog.metasploit.com/2007/10/cracking-iphone ...
    http://blog.metasploit.com/2007/10/cracking-iphone ...
    http://blog.metasploit.com/2007/10/cracking-iphone ...
  • drewfer, on 10/29/2007, -4/+12Tears from my eyes! I've waited so long... Works like sex too!
    • mdeppi01, on 10/29/2007, -1/+29You mean it took 33 years to get, cost $300 and gave you a V.D.?
    • zeromancer, on 10/29/2007, -2/+3sometimes sex doesn't work so well. there's alcohol. and coke. and those make sex notsoez.
  • DigitAl56K, on 10/30/2007, -7/+54One of these days a site like this is going to secretly dial premium numbers without you knowing after you install it on your phone. It amazes me that people just blindly trust people/websites they know nothing about.
    • Bootes, on 10/30/2007, -1/+19Uhm I trust tuaw, and I trust the developers that made this site.
      • sholt, on 10/29/2007, -2/+7Give me the source to the server so I can inspect it, install it locally, then direct it to my private box to run this. Call me crazy, but I do *not* trust any website that exploits a remote execution bug then asks me to trust it when I have no reason to.
        • MAGZine, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Perhaps.
          Or if you really want to go that in-depth, just download the old, legacy, self-install. (And have your iPhone STILL vulnerable, unless they fixed the old one).
          Done and done. Problem sloved. For every 300 people that trust it, 5 don't. Is not a big deal to them.
        • cyberoidx, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1I'm assuming that you dont have an iPhone. Do you?
    • babybirdhome, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2Yeah but this is the best way to get all the naked pics of celebrities. If people were smarter then someone would have to steal their phones.

      /sarcasm
  • jarinudom, on 03/31/2008, -1/+6Works great :)
  • DeathNoodle, on 10/29/2007, -1/+6Worked perfectly and didn't take long at all.
  • spankaccount, on 10/29/2007, -6/+20What this really says about the iPhone is that it's security is utter crap. I have a lot of respect for the hackers that make third party apps available to us iPhone users - I'm also very, very scared now.
    • mrfreeziexp, on 10/29/2007, -2/+3I feel the same way. I probably will save most of my web surfing for my PC now.
    • enicholas, on 10/29/2007, -3/+13If having at least one security vulnerability means that your security is "utter crap", then virtually every OS ever released has utter crap security.
      • sholt, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4I would agree with that statement. The security of any OS that currently has a vulnerability allowing the modification of system resources *is* utter crap.
      • darkNiGHTS, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4Actually it does. If you could visit a website on Internet Explorer and have it permanently modify Windows XP (delete all your files, etc.) that would be horrible. This one bug makes the iPhone much less safe than Internet Explorer.
    • spankaccount, on 10/29/2007, -0/+6Dude, trust me. If surfing to a website can completely own your phone, you are in trouble. Apple will close this hole VERY quickly.
      • handsoffme, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4Very quickly? It's already been known for a quite a while...
    • yabos, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3They're using libtiff, an open source tiff parser. This is what has the tiff vulnerability, and obviously Apple will be patching it ASAP.
    • wheresaldo, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2This is a HUGE security risk. Any hacker can get to any of your information, contacts personal information, phones, emails, and notes... email account login information and so on. DO NOT INSTALL, including any 3rd-party application, at this point, there is NO WAY to TRUST the hacker community or 3rd-party application development.
  • robshoy, on 11/01/2007, -8/+3I installed the jailbreak on my iPod Touch the day it was announced. Back before the "one touch" stuff. And I don't regret it at all. It was actually a pretty fun process. These days, everything is so automated, you rarely get to mess around with stuff and get your hands dirty with some code.
    • tentwentyfour, on 10/29/2007, -5/+3Wow, you're so cool that you can run a few batch files and think you've accomplished something great. Running one or two files while following directions != getting hands dirty with code. Unless you wrote the program yourself, you've accomplished nothing a 9 year old with a Readme.txt couldn't.
    • cyberoidx, on 10/29/2007, -1/+1gah! script kiddies
  • 0xFEEDFACE, on 10/30/2007, -1/+7Hmm... perhaps Mail.app, Safari.app, etc. should use chroot and drop permissions, eh?
    • spankaccount, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3My thoughts exactly.
    • yabos, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3They'll probably use Leopard's sandboxing technology. They already have the basic thing worked out for Leopard, now they just have to get it on the iPhone.
  • enderiii, on 10/29/2007, -1/+17This jailbreak is legit and confirmed by Nullriver at http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/
    • sholt, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2because a remote website can't be changed.

      Make an installer so I can inspect it locally before running it in my own environment.
      • aractor, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1People have made installers...did you miss checking out the jailbreak script that was release prior to 1.1.1?
      • Eccohawk, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4Jesus, man. Move on. If you don't trust them, don't install it! Don't expect them to just pander to you and release their code because it better suits your frail sensibilities and paranoid opinions. No one is forcing your hand at all here.

        Don't misunderstand me...I probably wouldn't be hopping on the Trust Wagon anytime soon necessarily, either...but I'd come to the conclusion that until a safe way to test it is available, I simply won't install it...Or I'd try it out on a dummy system, like, say, one in a store. But I definitely wouldn't sit there and whine and moan about how they aren't doing it in a super safe and special way just so I can sleep better at night. You and the others out there that want to hack your phone are lucky they've even devoted their time to making it a reality in the first place.
  • psyjoniz, on 10/30/2007, -2/+43Breaking : A massive DDoS takes down lolcats.com in a cleverly laid out and executed plan involving iPhones who's owners unwittingly gave full control of their hardware to the malicious attackers, who are still as yet unknown, by simply visiting a website. Bills for the soaring data usage will be collected, says AT&T, stating "whateva, whateva, we do what we waount!". Details at 11.
  • danny951, on 10/29/2007, -4/+1Great work!
  • mrfreeziexp, on 10/29/2007, -7/+1Wish I had a Touch to try this on.. I am not about to risk voiding my iPhone warranty.
  • mrfreeziexp, on 10/29/2007, -8/+1bury
  • mrosen310, on 10/29/2007, -4/+2so i wasted 20 minutes getting all of this on my ipod touch last week
    • Firehed, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4Hardly... you spent twenty minutes to have it a week early.
  • freudianslipper, on 10/29/2007, -5/+3Just to play it safe, will I be able to revert back to the 1.1.1 firmware easily?
    • likwidfuzion, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2Yes, just do a restore in iTunes.
      • Valdar0664, on 11/02/2007, -0/+0So if I want my iPhone to be normal again... All I have to do is just do a restore in iTunes? I did a restore from my iPhone and the installer icon was still there.

        What about the warning iTunes gives you about modified iPhones being "bricked"?
  • LukeBeaumont, on 10/29/2007, -3/+2Now if only I could buy a decent priced iPhone in Australia
    • tomwhughes, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4If only I could buy an iPhone in Australia!!
      • eosp, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4If only I could buy a decent priced iPhone in the US.
  • venicerocco, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2It says allows "full disk access". How do I get this to work?
    • brettschulte, on 10/29/2007, -1/+3That means apps can install, not that you can use it like a USB drive.
  • invectivelover, on 10/29/2007, -7/+2I'd only use this for the ipod touch. Why risk doing it to your extremely expensive phone?
  • diggatog, on 10/30/2007, -5/+1can i unlock the sim with this?
    • brettschulte, on 10/29/2007, -4/+1YES. And it adds INSTALLER with a single URL!
    • jschuur, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2No, it doesn't perform any kind of unlocking explicitly.
    • likwidfuzion, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1You need to use anySim to unlock your iPhone.
    • likwidfuzion, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1***** double post.
  • srslyfkd, on 11/09/2007, -4/+94I'm going to take a moment to explain what's going on in a no-***** manner, so the FUD and other nonsense can cease:

    This exploits a bug in Mobile Safari which allows arbitrary code execution -- it's an exploit. While the payload in this case may be "legitimate" insofar as it does what it claims to do, you should be aware that this works by exploiting what is a gaping security hole in Mobile Safari that could - in the hands of the wrong people - do some nasty things to your iPhone.

    Because it is a security flaw (likely the same TIFF exploit that people have been using for 1.1.1), and a well-known one at that - you can guarantee that one day in the future Apple will release an update that fixes it, and this page (and the mechanism by which it occurs) will cease to work.

    It is worth noting that these kinds of bugs are not new, have existed in one form or another in every single browser you or I are likely to have used (that means Safari, Firefox, and - of course - Internet Explorer). This type of exploit is not new, and is not unique in kind to the iPhone. It does not mean that the iPhone is any less secure than any other device with similar kinds of vulnerabilities, and is not indicative of anything more than the the iPhone is a complex hardware/software combination for which problems other types of hardware/software combinations still exist.

    In short: It's a security hole, and not a particularly special one other than having enough people focused on the task of finding it. It's well-known, has appeared on numerous devices and software products, and will be patched. Microsoft fanboys don't get to claim that this proves anything, and Apple fanboys don't get to claim that this isn't the sort of flaw it clearly is.

    Good day.
    • enderiii, on 10/30/2007, -0/+35This jailbreak also patches the vulnerability it uses. So jailbreaking your iPhone also secures it. Go figure...
      • starkruzr, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1This must be enormously embarrassing to Apple. Not only did the hackers find an exploit to use to do something Apple hates (take control of the device away from them and give it to the user), but it ALSO fixes the exploit, which is something Apple has STILL not been able to do.

        Hint, Steve: GIVE UP. LET US DO WITH IT WHAT WE WANT.
    • sholt, on 10/29/2007, -5/+1Agreed. And, the fact that it exists isn't making me paranoid - the fact that a website I can't control is promising to modify my system makes me paranoid.
  • freudianslipper, on 10/29/2007, -1/+6Well, it didn't work for me. Now i'm stuck with the "connect to your computer" screen with no idea how to get back...any help!?
    • freudianslipper, on 10/29/2007, -4/+7Well if anybody else has this problem, I found this thread helpful for restoring.

      http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID= ...
      • freudianslipper, on 10/29/2007, -2/+2why digg me down? I had to restore my touch and couldn't get itunes to recognize it. the solution is in that thread.
        • dansmeek, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4cuz the text in the comment is only "part" of the link. it cuts off at threadID=....
          post the "whole" link
    • dansmeek, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2There's several "states" that your iPhone might can exist in.
      virgin 1.0.0, 1.0.2, or 1.1.1
      hacked 1.0.2
      hacked 1.0.2 with 1.1.1 update applied on it

      we all want to get it the hacked 1.1.1 state (well not all but most)

      i have no idea how this method (jailbreakme.com) works, but I'm assuming it does the tiff exploit to start and then assumes you have 'unhacked' firmware which it then mods. if your firmware has already been altered by a previous hack, it may not work.
      my guess is that the hack will work best on phones that are "virgin 1.1.1" phones. use google to find out how to revirginize your phone. it may also work on simply 1.0.2 phones (however i doubt that), and thus, you may need to clean up your phone and install 1.1.1 as well.

      http://www.winandmac.com/mobile/iphone/ultimate-gu ...

      this guide is very detailed, so you could find parts of it that could put your iphone in the correct "state" so you could apply the jailbreakme.com patch. or you could do it yourself, which would take about an hour, and you'd also understand how the underlying firmware works as well. either way, good luck
      • Rustymetal, on 10/29/2007, -2/+1how does it mod ur firmware?

        Dumbass its a TFF exploit that gives Read/Write access to the phone, and installs installer.app files. NOT a Firmware or Baseband flash.
    • dansmeek, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1sorry digg won't let me post the link
      just google "winandmac ultimate guide 1.1.1 iphone"
      and click the first link. yw
  • Ai3d, on 10/29/2007, -0/+5It's dead? I just see the "?" for the tiff and nothing else.
    • Ai3d, on 10/29/2007, -1/+3"Fake Edit" They have added a FAQ and it looks like I did something wrong, it downloaded, ran, and apparently "patched" the exploit and now I have to restore the iphone to original settings in order to run it again. I'm just gonna stay away.
      • saralovemuffins, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3I thought something wasn't working when I did it too. All you have to do is restart your phone, and it works fine. The installer icons shows up after restart. It's much easier than I thought.
  • taro, on 10/29/2007, -0/+20I can't agree more with this comment:

    12. Now that is a real WebApp ;-) Well done guys!
    • marcomc2, on 10/29/2007, -1/+1I thought the same thing. Thats why I dugg your comment. /Obviousness.
  • sevenalive, on 10/29/2007, -9/+0HA HA HA HA HA This is actually great, yes i am tired of all the apple fanboys and their news stories. But all this "Jailbreaking" for the iphone and ipod just proves that apple's code security is crap. Which means OS X is not invincible (never was, but can't tell a fanboy that). Hacking group did the iphone and a 13 year old cracked the software in 7 hours for the ipod touch. What does this say about OS X. Just because it uses the FreeBSD Kernel, doesn't mean that teh whole system is 1337.
    • sonicularulus, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3Yes, the system is not "1337," but what system is? It sure is quite secure, and you cant say that a 13 year old cracked the software in just 7 hours. With the internet, he has other sources such as the web and other hacking communities, to get information which took others hours to get to. He probably just took the work of others, put it together, and cracked the software. Not that impressive in my opinion.

      Personally, i dont care if the software can or can not be cracked. Its all about how easy and how user friendly it is to use. The iPhone and the iPod Touch is very easy to use and very minimal. Great product whether or not the system is "1337."

  • iamaelephant, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Can someone explain to the uninitiated what this actually does? It says it allows full disk access - why wasn't this available before? Apple just decided to restrict how much disk space you could use? I'm confused. Sorry for the stupid question, I haven't been following the iPhone phenomenon at all.
    • brettschulte, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1There's about 5 steps of what to type - very easy. Video soon.
    • dansmeek, on 10/29/2007, -2/+1gaining access to a system so that you can alter any of the data mean's the content is "unlocked" or "unjailed". ipod, iphones are "jailed" by default. for security reasons, and also, there is no real reason why you would an all in one device to have these features.

      iphone was previously jail broken by using a process that exploited another vulnerability in the OS. when iphone 1.1.1 came out, the software fixed the bug, so an iphone could no longer be jail broken this way. it didn't take long for someone to find the TIFF exploit. wherein, when safari sees a tiff, it crashes, and leaves the OS in a writable state. with that, some setting and files can be changed and restructured, and an entire new application can be put into your iphone's application list.

      thats pretty much the extent of the hack. apptapp is a great application, in that, its an application on your iphone that allows you to install/uninstall other app's that others make. all app is really doing is putting a set of instructions in that download, uncompress, and instal a program and clean up the trash. it could be done easily without it, but, who wants to hook up your iphone everytime you want to mess with the app's.

      as for security, once you install ssh, and change your passwords (theres two I believe) you should be fine. and i believe the tiff exploit is fixed in one of the hacks.

      also, "full disc access" just means, it allows you to alter files in the root directory in the /applications directory, etc.
      a semi-hacked iphone might just allow access in the /Media directory but not below. Apple has always produced products (i.e. ipods) with an OS that make it difficult to have direct access to the media that is on the hardware. There are always workarounds.

      The point is, Apple just wants you to modify iPhones or iPods with iTunes. And given the 'normal' person who is the designated target for the iPod/iPhone, this person really wouldn't see any coolness associated with modifying your iphone beyond iTunes.

      I should say though, that a modded iPhone is a lot lot better than an unmodded one.
      I got GPS navigation, voice calling, instant messaging, ssh (including the ability to connect remotely to my computer and thus see and hear what's going on). For instance, if I'm at my house, I can watch movies stored on my computer over my iphone regardless of whether they exist on the memory. It's also need to customize the way it "looks." Some great themes. TimeMachine is my current fav (for SummerBoard).
      And obviously, you can use different carriers than AT&T if you want. But apple handles software updates to really destroy your software when it detects that the sim data has been modded, so be careful.
      Hardware wants for iPod: 1) stereo connect for bluetooth 2) transfer files with bluetooth 3) 3G network 4) better voice samples from the recorder 5) iChat to be one feature w/aolIM, SMS, MMS, voice/video messaging, file sharing, etc.

  • d3faultnet, on 10/30/2007, -1/+4If you don't have an iPhone, you can change your user agent (using user agent switcher extension for firefox) to "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3" and you'll still be able to view the site.

    doesn't really accomplish anything though. errr, i mean ***you can jailbreak your computer by doing this yayayayay!!!
  • barfooz, on 10/29/2007, -1/+1This does not work for me on my Touch. The hack installed, but it's rendered the Touch completely unstable. 3 seconds after I launch any app, the UI becomes unresponsive. Neither button has any effect, and I have to wait for the unit to go into standby mode to restore responsiveness. This is on a virgin Touch running 1.1.1.
    • barfooz, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2I reset the unit and it appears to be working now. To anyone else experiencing this problem - hold down both the Home and Power buttons for a few seconds to reset it; it worked for me after that.
    • dansmeek, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1something went wrong. go back to factory settings by holding down the "home" and the "sleep" buttons at the same time. Keep holding it when it turns off, and you can let go when you see a static image on the screen. iTunes will detect that your phone is in "restore" mode, and you will restore it to factory settings.

      Once this has been done, try to do that jailbreak again. If it doesn't work this time, you're phone for whatever reason is not virginized. You might have to put jailbreak on another way. There is also a program in windows and os x call iJailBreak that does this for touch and phone. This works better to my knowledge. so you might want to try that next.
      google "iJailbreak for iPhone" and it will lead you to the google code.
      • iamdb, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Nothing's wrong. I had the same problem with my iPhone. After a reset, everything is working just fine.
  • spargett, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2This is SO ***** COOL!

    I've been so bummed since I upgraded to 1.1.1 : (
  • sdenike, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Wow that was too easy. Worked great on my 1.1.1 iPhone.
  • SenatorChubby, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Works great. I've never before used third party apps on my phone.
    This is too *****' cool.
  • bovox, on 10/30/2007, -1/+6My God. It is a HUUUUGE security hole if it is possible to modify a computer's operating system just by visiting a website and doing nothing.
    • DirtySnachez, on 10/29/2007, -4/+2ssshhh, I wanna see what happens with the first wave of zombie iphones in about 3 months, after enough suckers have visited this site.
      Imagine a 3 million plus+ network of iphones attempting to ddos something. /the geek in me smiles.
      • starkruzr, on 10/29/2007, -0/+0How about zombie Macs? The exploit still exists in Safari 2.
    • warning9, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1Yeah and it's funny... how it seems like nobody notices that this could be a major security issue.
  • Matrix_Prime, on 10/29/2007, -3/+1This is great and all, but I STILL have no idea where you download apps, and how you get them to the phone/ipod. Any guides out there?
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