iPhone Dev Team did not release the promised iPhone “Pwnage Tool” today despite promising to do otherwise. The expected release of the
According to iPhone DevTeam, legal enquiries were made to the DevTeam about the validity and legality of the contents of the tools, we would like to stress that no third-party copyrighted software will ever be released by the DevTeam.
Also, initial feedback from Beta testers has indicated that a few small changes and additional features should be developed now.
Another major request from the Beta testers and demo
Pwnage Tool Application will be released _sometime_ in the next week for Mac OS X 10.4.x, 10.5.x and Windows. The DevTeam would like to thank the users for being patient and wait for the upcoming release.
iPhone Pwnage tool will not only allow you to easily jailbreak and unlock your iPhone, but also allows all upcoming firmware versions of the iPhone to be “Pwned”. This term (in relation to this software) refers to the patching of the stock bootloader so that it will allow the execution of unsigned code and circumvent code-signing checks. “Pwnage” only needs to be performed once to allow the additional features on the iPhone.
The application also processes and modifies existing Apple archives so that unique, custom rolled firmware bundles can be installed onto the “Pwned” iPhone directly from iTunes. These ”.ipsw” files can be created and patched by the application to allow third-party modifications such as activation, application installation, baseband modification, custom phone graphics etc.
The tool works automatically on box-fresh (OTB) 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 iPhones and requires minimal interaction from the user.
The tool also ships with an iPhone application that is automatically installed and run on first boot (if the user requests it) that is called “BootNeuter”, This will enable “Bootneutering” of the iPhone baseband allowing custom firmware to be installed. Arbitrary secpacks and fls files will be accepted when the device is in this state, please refer to the application help file for specific information.
If the user has access to developer versions of the iPhone software (such as 1.2 or 2.0) provisions have been made to support this software and allow it to be used on any device. This will be useful for legitimate SDK trialists to install their software on more than one device, this should not be used unless you are an official member of the iPhone SDK program.
Overall it seems like there’s not much Pwnage tool cannot do (check the video presentation above for more), although, once again, we have to wait.
[Thanks: http://www.iphoneworld.ca]
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