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iPhone OS 3.0 jailbroken and unlocked; both will be available shortly

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

In some good news on the jailbreaking and unlocking news front, the iPhone Dev Team have recently announced that an unlock would be available as of Friday and that a jailbreak would also be available shortly. In terms of an iPhone OS 3.0 unlock, as it was stated by the Dev Team, “ultrasn0w is the new [...]

Unofficial QuickPWN for iPhone OS 3.0 beta 3 now available

Friday, April 17, 2009

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Unofficial QuickPWN for iPhone OS 3.0 beta 3 now available

Similar to what we saw when iPhone OS 3.0 beta 2 was released, a jailbreak has been quickly offered up for OS 3.0 beta 3. Of course, this version of QuickPWN was not released by the iPhone Dev Team, which is where the “unofficial” comes from. But that unofficial also means if you choose to [...]

iPhone OS 3.0 beta 2 jailbroken, but you may want to hold off

Thursday, April 2, 2009

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iPhone OS 3.0 beta 2 jailbroken, but you may want to hold off

Well it would appear that the recently released iPhone OS 3.0 beta 2 software has already been jailbroken. Of course, as standard fare, that news comes along with a warning. To begin with, and perhaps the most important is that this jailbreak is not an “official” release from the iPhone Dev Team and could cause [...]

DevTeam releases QuickPwn for Mac and Windows, Pwnage Tool for Mac

Monday, February 2, 2009

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Last week we saw Apple roll out firmware 2.2.1 for both the iPhone and iPod touch, and as we have come to expect, the DevTeam released an updated version of QuickPwn and Pwnage Tool so users could continue using a jailbroken iPhone. In a release that quickly followed the Apple firmware, the DevTeam released both tools [...]

iPhone Dev Team offers “How The iPhone Was Hacked” video

Monday, December 29, 2008

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Coming in the form of an (almost) hour long video, the speech comes from the recent talk the DevTeam gave at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. One of the first things that we learn from the speech is that despite the team originally forming in June 2007, this is the first time that most [...]

OS X Users Upgrade With Caution: 10.5.6 Breaks DFU Mode

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

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Yesterday, Mac users saw an update to OS X drop: 10.5.6. While it had some nice fixes and features, it also has one big drawback: Macs running this version of Leopard will not recognize an iPhone in “DFU Mode,” which is the what allows the QuickPwn and Pwnage Tools to install their custom firmware on [...]

Time for jailbreakers to update; QuickPwn and Pwnage Tool 2.2 released

Monday, November 24, 2008

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Coming out with yet another quick release, the Dev Team has made both QuickPwn and Pwnage Tool 2.2 available for download. While these releases have become fairly standard now, this one does come with a few warnings from the Dev Team and it is suggested that you read their full post before you proceed. As always, [...]

QuickPwn 2.1 now available for Windows users

Friday, September 19, 2008

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The unofficial iphone-dev team have just released their latest version of QuickPwn, which should come as welcomed news for any Windows users. As we saw, the dev team made quick work of releasing both PwnageTool and QuickPwn for Mac users, that also acted as a tease, and possibly annoyance for Windows users. But thankfully, they [...]

Beware of fake QuickPwn jailbreaking sites

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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As a proponent of jailbreaking, this latest message from the unofficial iPhone DevTeam seems worthy of passing on. They are warning of some fake or unofficial websites related to the QuickPwn name, of course this is not a surprise because after all this is the Internet and there are bound to be some less than [...]

QuickPwn 1.0 for Mac released

Sunday, August 31, 2008

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We have recently seen the unofficial iPhone DevTeam introduce the quicker and easier jailbreak method called QuickPwn, but sadly it was initially introduced as a Windows only program. However that sad news has since changed as the DevTeam has just released an updated version, which is 1.0 that now offers Mac support. While the support from [...]