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

Monday, December 29, 2008

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 [...]

QuickPwn gets updated, adds support for firmware 2.0.2

Thursday, August 21, 2008

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QuickPwn, the new jailbreaking tool courtesy of the unofficial iPhone DevTeam has received its first update, and although I would consider it a welcomed update its still not fully ready to lose its beta tag. So the update and perhaps most important is the fact is that it now offers support for iPhone firmware 2.0.2, which [...]

QuickPwn; making iPhone jailbreaking quicker, easier

Monday, August 18, 2008

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The unofficial iPhone DevTeam has just released another jailbreaking tool, one that should make the process a little quicker and easier. The new tool is called QuickPwn and it will allow users to jailbreak their iPhone without having to create a full IPSW and do a full restore within iTunes. Of course this initial release [...]