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Jailbreaking news: An unlock may be coming for OS 3.1.3, in the meantime — be patient

Friday, February 12, 2010

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Some good news may be coming for those looking to unlock an OS 3.1.3 running iPhone. It seems that the Dev-Team has confirmed that an exploit for the 05.12.01 baseband has been discovered. “Musclenerd confirmed it working ))) timing of 5.12 unlock release is totally the dev team opinion” What this means is that anyone that [...]

New Apple job listing hints at fighting jailbreaking and unlocking

Friday, November 6, 2009

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According to a recently listing job posting, Apple is looking to hire an “iPhone OS Platform Security Manager.” According to that listing; “The team is responsible for secure booting and installation of the OS, partitioning and hardening of security domains within the OS, cryptographic services, and risk analysis of security threats. The team is made up [...]

Jailbreaking iPhone OS 3.0.1: Pick redsn0w, avoid purplera1n

Monday, August 3, 2009

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We have recently seen Apple offer an update, the first since 3.0 and as always OS updates poses an interesting game of wait and see for those who have jailbroken and or unlocked their iPhone. Typically, once an update is released, we (those who have jailbroken) hate to wait to update our iPhones until the Dev [...]

Geohot returns with purplesn0w; his own iPhone 3GS unlocking solution

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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Geohot returns with purplesn0w; his own iPhone 3GS unlocking solution

It seems there may be a line being drawn between the Dev Team and Geohot when it comes to working together to bring what is best for the end user as a whole. While some may argue that them working together is for the best, I would argue that competition between the two may end [...]

Jailbreaking news: Dev Team releases redsn0w for Linux and the iPhone 3GS

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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Following the release of purplera1n, the Dev Team has decided to release an updated version of their own jailbreaking tool — redsn0w. If you remember back, they had originally announced they were going to hold off until OS 3.1 was available, however according to the most recent post on their blog. “We realize we upset some [...]

How to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS using “purplera1n” on the Mac

Sunday, July 5, 2009

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How to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS using “purplera1n” on the Mac

Just recently, Geohot made the Mac version of purplera1n available, and well this is the one I had been waiting for. So without much of a wait, I went ahead with the jailbreak. The overall process was really simple, and at least in my case it was very quick. All said and done, it look [...]

iPhone 3GS jailbreaking: Geohot releases “purplera1n” for the Mac

Sunday, July 5, 2009

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Geohot has just announced the availability of “purplera1n” for the Mac. The news coming in a short but sweet Twitter message stating: “purplera1n for mac!!!! huge thanks to AriX and westbaer for coding it!!! @ purplera1n.com as usual” Well, it is time for me to see how well it works as this is the one I was [...]

iPhone 3GS jailbreak available; Geohot releases “purplera1n” [UPDATED]

Friday, July 3, 2009

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George Hotz, who is perhaps a little better known as Geohot has offered his response to the Dev Team’s decision to wait until iPhone OS 3.1 is available before releasing a jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS and it has come in the form of his own jailbreaking tool. “Normally I don’t make tools for the [...]

iPhone 3GS jailbreak, unlock confirmed and coming soon

Friday, June 26, 2009

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iPhone 3GS jailbreak, unlock confirmed and coming soon

This post comes as good news, of course, it will be even nicer to report that an iPhone 3GS jailbreak is available, but in the meantime we will take what we can get. Anyway, it seems that the iPhone Dev Team has discovered an exploit that is available to be taken advantage of. “About 5 hours [...]

Still unconfirmed: iPhone 3GS jailbreak discovered by GeoHot

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

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Still unconfirmed: iPhone 3GS jailbreak discovered by GeoHot

Currently the iPhone 3GS is still not able to be jailbroken or unlocked, which for some (myself included) is proving to be good and bad. Good because I am fortunate to have been able to upgrade my hardware, but bad because I am missing out on some of my favorite apps. Anyway, it would seem as [...]