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Apple’s Jailbreak-Proof iPhone 3GS Units Totally Aren’t
5:51AM John Herrman | iPhone 3GSes now ship with a chained-down boot ROM, intended to thwart jailbreakers at a fundamental level. It’s already been cracked. But for what it’s worth (seriously, what?), it has made life outside the App Store a little less convenient. More »
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QuickPwn Advertised in Apple’s iPhone Application Catalog
1:45PM Jesus Diaz | QuickPwn allows you to bypass Apple’s protection and install not-official programs in your iPhone and iPod touch. So what the hell is QuickPwn doing in Apple’s own web apps catalog page? More »
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iPhone 3.0 Beta 3 Gets Jailbreak With Quickpwn
6:39AM Jason Chen | iPhone 3.0 Beta 3 users can now jailbreak your iPhone again with QuickPWN, but will probably make your phone unable to be unlocked by the iPhone Dev Team’s unlock util. Be careful. [QuickPWN via Into Mobile] More »
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iPhone 3.0 Beta Jailbroken, QuickPWN Up For Download
11:06PM John Herrman | QuickPWN for Beta 3.0 is out for all devices but the Touch 2G, but it could sabotage future unlocking, says the Dev Team. And so the untelevised procedural drama that is jailbreaking continues, forever. [QuickPWN] More »
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iPhone 2.2.1 Pwnage Jailbreak Is Here
3:00AM Jason Chen | The Dev Team just released the Pwnage app, which jailbreaks 2.2.1 iPhones on Macs. If you’re ever going to SIM unlock your phone in the future (use it on another network), use this, not QuickPwn. More »
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iPhone 2.2.1 QuickPwn Jailbreak For Windows Now Available
8:46AM Sean Fallon | As expected, it didn’t take long for the QuickPwn team to jailbreak the iPhone 2.2.1 firmware. QuickPwn is available now for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. [QuickPwn via Lifehacker] More »
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Meet the iPhone Dev Team
12:40AM John Mahoney | The international team of code-monkeying playboys known as the iPhone Dev Team gave a talk at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin recently, where they presented a comprehensive history of iPhone hacking to date. More »
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Apple Leopard 10.5.6 Update Pwns Pwnage, Breaks Jailbreak
3:00PM Elaine Chow | A warning for all you iPhone jailbreak enthusiasts: Apple’s newest OS software update contains quite a stink bomb–10.5.6 disables the Pwnage tool, making you unable to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone or iPod Touch. More »
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iPhone Firmware 2.2 Jailbroken! QuickPwn 2.2 Released!
11:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Once again, anything Apple can make, the enterprising Dev Team can break: the brand-new firmware 2.2 has been jailbroken. QuickPwn should take care of everything, unless you’re one of those unfortunate owners of the second-generation iPod touch, in which case you’re out of luck at the moment. But everything else seems to be running fine—anybody here broken the new firmware yet? Let us know in the comments. [iPhone Dev, thanks Mehmet!] More »
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