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Apple iPhone and iPod Touch Hacking Timeline
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Tags: iphone, hack, ipod, touch, Apple, hacking, jailbreak, unlock
Hack has several meanings in the technology and computer science fields: a clever or quick fix to a computer program problem; a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem; or a modification of a program or device to give the user access to features that were otherwise unavailable to them. Geeks hack computers, phones, PDAs and ATM machines, so its not surprise they are trying to hack iPhones and iPods.
| 1. | Apple releases iPhone, which was obviously cracked six ways from Sunday. |
| 2. | Through firmwares 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 Apple does not block these hacks in any way. |
| 3. | Firmware v1.1.1 is released for iPhone and iPod touch, which completely locks out file system access (and thus 3rd party software). |
| 4. | Awkward silence from Apple fans and the dev community as everyone ponders how to crack the new file system protections. |
| 5. | Hackers dinopio, edgan discover the symlink hack, which takes v1.0.2 iPhones up to v1.1.1 with read / write file system access. In other words, the hack only works on v1.0.2 iPhones (not the iPod touch) when being upgraded to v1.1.1, and still doesn't grant the ability to execute loaded programs. |
| 6. | The next version of dinopio & co.'s symlink hack (which hasn't yet been released to the public) grants the coveted execute privilege (so you can run those 3rd party apps), and enables another hack (by pumpkin) to make the new SpringBoard (the application launcher) recognize the freshly recompiled iPhone apps. |
| 7. | Hacker Niacin (aka toc2rta) and Dre claim they've managed to combine the symlink hack with a TIFF vulnerability found in the v1.1.1 firmware's mobile Safari, which grants access to the file system. This is the hack we're testing here. |
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