If you’re at all up on the whole jailbreaking scene, you know that the long-awaited iPhone 5 jailbreak is probably maybe definitely coming today, finally. And even though there’s been a long wait, the exploit is definitely going to be a hell of a lot better than the first ones were. Jailbreaking used to take 74 steps.
In anticipation of the upcoming exploit, Cult of Mac dug up some info on the first ever jailbreak, and it makes modern-day stuff seem like a breeze. Mostly because it is. This MacRumors thread from way back in 2007 details the steps for cracking open the original iPhone, running iOS 1.1.1. All 74 of them, including such gems as:
11. Search for the ASCII string “noexec” in the file. The second hit
should look like the /etc/fstab file: /dev/disk0s1 / hfs ro 0 1
/dev/disk0s2 /private/var hfs rw,noexec 0 2
Only, of course, hex editors will just display newlines as a ‘.’
character or similar. This series of characters are often found at
0xF8F9000-0xF8F9045. They will have the following character codes:
2F 64 65 76 2F 64 69 73 6B 30 73 31 20 2F 20 68 66 73 20 72 6F 20 30 20
31 0A 2F 64 65 76 2F 64 69 73 6B 30 73 32 20 2F 70 72 69 76 61 74 65 2F
76 61 72 20 68 66 73 20 72 77 2C 6E 6F 65 78 65 63 20 30 20 32 0A
(In “find” make sure it’s set to find hex values)
and
43. Try to ssh to it with Putty
(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~s…/download.html).
Username root, password alpine.
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So, OK, now we need to get sftp running, do some clean-up and then I
think we can install Installer.app and be good.
Download WinSCP (http://winscp.net/download/winscp404setup.exe)
And of course, the very first comment is:
Thanks for the info
but,
really need 74 steps? and edit hex file? ……I am sure there would be much easier solutions soon, if not now
Nowadays things are much easier, with fully untethered jailbreaks practically at the push of a button. Sure, getting a jailbreak to work on the iPhone 5 and other A6 devices has proven to be a little tough, but there’s no doubt that when that jailbreak does come out, it’ll be a piece of cake compared to what jailbreaking took in those early pioneer days. Thank god. [Cult of Mac]