Hackers "jailbreak" Apple's iPhone 1.1.1

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: October 11, 2007 8:51:41 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Hackers "jailbreak" Apple's iPhone 1.1.1

[Note:  This round of the battle of Apple vs iPhone Hackers is now  
over.  It will be interesting to watch for the next round.  As for  
me, I'm going to stick with an unhacked iPhone for the present time.   
DLH]

Hackers "jailbreak" Apple's iPhone 1.1.1 (download)
<http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/10/11/jailbreak.for.iphone.111/>

Over the last few days hackers have begun publicizing ways into and  
around Apple's newest iPhone v1.1.1 firmware update that disabled  
many third-party hacks. iPhone firmware v1.1.1, which Apple warned  
may damage (i.e., "brick") unlocked iPhones, also disabled many third- 
party applications and hackers,w ho have been feverishly working to  
find a way into updated iPhones to install third-party applications,  
have finally released details of "jail-breaking" an iPhone running  
v1.1.1 firmware -- a process that is still fairly complicated  
compared to the initial "one-click" methods.

On Wednesday, three different methods for hacking into the iPhone  
1.1.1 filesystem are circulating on the Web, including one -- still  
in beta -- that takes advantage of a TIFF exploit security bug found  
in the embedded Safari browser; however, the most promising method to  
appears to be a publicly method of downgrading the firmware to v1.02,  
applying some modifications to the file system and then upgrading the  
firmware back to v1.1.1, thereby allowing users to run an application  
like AppTapp to install third-party applications.

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