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blog.iphone-dev.org - 9/11/2008

dev.org | Countermeasures

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If you’ve been following the technical aspects of our blog since July, you may have noticed that we’ve asserted multiple times that Apple can’t fix the bug we’ve exploited in PwnageTool unless they fix their hardware. That hardware fact is still true. But one way they can try to combat Pwnage ...

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Apple Pwns Pwnage, Pwnage Pwns Apple Back [IPhone Wars]
Gizmodo — ... this ability in mint iPod touch and iPhone devices. But don't fret, because the iPhone Dev Team have already launched a counterattack: The nice thing about iTunes decisions is that we can provide you with patches to counter them. We have one such patch already for Mac iTunes 8 for iPod touch. We’ll be working out the full suite of patches for all the combinations over the next week. Begun the Apple-Hackers iTunes Wars have. [iPhone Dev Team Blog] ...

iTunes 8 and iPhone Jailbreaking
HardMac.com — Source : http://blog.iphone-dev.orApple started to fire back at iPhones jailbroken with Pwnage Tools. iTunes 8 is now able to detect a modified firmware, and then refuses to install it on the device. So, it is currently impossible to jailbreak or SIM-unlock an iPhone with the current version of this software. However, the DevTeam already announced to have found a bypass and should release series of patches next week. The question now is: how long will the new iPhone firmware 2.1 resist? [translation by Linathael] ...

iPod 2.1: Spankin' fresh and Jailbroken, plus countermeasures news
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... Now there is good news, and there is bad news, about jailbreak and iTunes 8. The bad news is that Apple has taken countermeasures against custom ipsw firmware bundles. The good news is that the iPhone devteam folks are working on patches for each of the device types in addition to the touch. ...

iPhone 2.1 jailbroken with end run around iTunes 8 defenses
AppleInsider — ... code to run on iPhone and iPhone 3G as well as the first-generation iPod touch; the second-generation iPod touch isn't yet known to work, in part because none of the Dev Team has an example to verify the status of the jailbreak. The solution comes in spite of new, significant measures reportedly discovered in iTunes 8 to thwart more direct attempts at loading modified firmware on to untouched devices. Just before the new jailbreak, the Dev Team said it had discovered apparent security measures in Apple's software that pops up an error as long as the rogue firmware is loaded ...

2.1 Pwnd and iTunes 8 patches Pwnage hole - Dev Team comes with our fix yet again
iSmashPhone — ... pwned iTouches and iPhones.  Already, the Dev team is prepared to give us the fix. They say: "That hardware fact is still true.  But one way they can try to combat Pwnage for existing hardware is to program iTunes to detect and prevent the Pwnage exploit.  In fact, they've already done that in iTunes 8.  The screenshot below from iTunes 8 using a Pwned ipsw (with an unPwned device attached) is one example." (Read the full Dev Team article here.) Also, the 2.1 iPhone software was pawned by Dev Team only days after ...