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Winning moves - Thu, 26 Aug 2010
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Fixing what Apple won't - Thu, 12 Aug 2010
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grow, grow ultrasn0w! - Wed, 04 Aug 2010
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The return of jailbreakme.com! - Mon, 02 Aug 2010
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Getting out of jail is free! - Mon, 26 Jul 2010
- iPhoneJailbreak: RT @marieltn: 【9月22日ワイン・スタイルズ試飲会開催】13時～17時の間、御徒町の店舗で酒販店＆業務店様向けに直輸入のフランス＆イギリスワイン試飲会を行います。昨日デカンター誌で世界No.1スパークリングに選ばれたリッジヴューも出します。ツイートからもご参 ... - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:14:52 +0000
- iPhoneJailbreak: RT @sommelietter: 素敵なイベントですね！ソムリエったーをフォロー頂いているみなさまよかったらぜひ！RT @marieltn 9月22日夜店内で一般のお客様向けで軽食付試飲会を行います。ご紹介して下さると嬉しいです。http://bit.ly/bHISJ6 ... - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:58:43 +0000
- iPhoneJailbreak: Sync your files online and across computers and iPhone,iPad with @Dropbox. 2GB account is free! http://db.tt/rWNdZdm - Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:39:46 +0000
- iphone_dev: RT @MuscleNerd: iTunes 10 is safe for JBers+unlockers: DFU mode, syncing, selecting IPSW, all okay (Stay away from 4.1 next week though!) - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:35:26 +0000
- iphone_dev: RT @MuscleNerd: Free open-source version of psjailbreak.com http://is.gd/eOGcS - You'll need HW, but AVR is cheap & fun! Congrats to all - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:50:50 +0000
- iphone_dev: Number of players: Zero. Why there won't be a 4.0.2 jailbreak (at least until after 4.1): http://is.gd/eEsPz - Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:13:05 +0000
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Winning moves - Thu, 26 Aug 2010
Jailbreakme v2.0 was a great success, and it’s provided a nice leveling point for all jailbreakers and unlockers on all devices at firmware versions less than 4.0.2/3.2.2.  We hope that everybody ever interested in jailbreaks or unlocks was able to join in on the jailbreakme bonanza.  Those of you who had Cydia capture your SHSH blobs, or those of you who captured them locally, will always be able to benefit from the jailbreakme.com v2.0 release. Congratulations!
Now it’s a few weeks later, and Apple has closed the jailbreakme.com hole.  They’re shipping devices with FW 4.0.2/3.2.2, impervious to this particular jailbreak.  So now, people will begin to ask: will there be a jailbreak for devices that shipped with 4.0.2/3.2.2, out of the box?
No, there won’t be.  FW 4.0.2/3.2.2 was *only* released to fix the jailbreakme hole.  With FW 4.1 still in its beta stages, it makes no sense to escalate the “cat & mouse†with Apple for FW updates that only fix the jailbreak holes. To quote WOPR, “the only winning move is not to playâ€.
If the cat & mouse game escalates too quickly, especially during beta FW periods, nobody but Apple benefits.  For this reason, there won’t be a 4.0.2/3.2.2 jailbreak specifically during the period where 4.0.2/3.2.2 is the latest public release.  At best, some future 4.1x FW jailbreak *may* be compatible with 4.0.2/3.2.2 (but don’t count on that).
If any of this is confusing, please ask below in our comments section!
P.S.: For those of you with iPhone3G or iPod Touch 2G(not MC version), it’s true you can always use redsn0w to jailbreak your 4.x devices.  Don’t let that dilute the above message, though :)
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Fixing what Apple won't - Thu, 12 Aug 2010
On Wednesday, Apple (finally) released firmware 4.0.2, which patches the very large security holes exploited by @comex in the 2nd incarnation of jailbreakme.com.  The only problem is they outright abandoned iPhone2G and iPod Touch 1G users!  Even though Apple acknowledges in their security update the severity of these holes, they left iPhone2G and ipt1G owners high and dry — completely vulnerable to truly malicious variants of jailbreakme (these variants aren’t out yet, but they’re sure to come!).
Luckily for Apple, the Jailbreak community isn’t so callous. @saurik has been burning the midnight oil coding a Cydia package that will fix the holes for all devices and all firmware versions (even going back to version 2.x!).  It will be released very soon, after some more testing is done.  (Update: it’s available now…see update #2 below).
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Since the only reason for 4.0.2 was to fix the security holes, and since the upcoming Cydia package will fix them too (and then some!), everybody should sit tight on 4.0.1 (or lower) and install the Cydia package as soon as it’s out.  Jailbreakers can have their cake and eat it too.Â
P.S. Dear Apple: you’re welcome!
Update #1: For those who know their way around the bash shell and dpkg, please try out this fix and send any pertinent feedback to @saurik.
Update #2: The fix is installable via Cydia itself now (search for “PDF Patchâ€).  To test that it’s working properly, visit jailbreakme.com again.  After you slide to jailbreak, you should no longer see a dialog box pop up (you’ll just see the star background).  That means you’re no longer vulnerable!
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grow, grow ultrasn0w! - Wed, 04 Aug 2010
We’re happy to tell you that our ultrasn0w carrier unlock now supports the iPhone4!
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Version 1.0-1 of ultrasn0w works for:
- iPhone4 baseband 01.59
- 3G/3GS basebands 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01 and 05.13.04
(If ultrasn0w doesn’t show when you search Cydia, add the repo:  repo666.ultrasn0w.com)
Here is a nice how-to video from @AdamFromYT that shows the installation process on the iPhone 4.
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The return of jailbreakme.com! - Mon, 02 Aug 2010
jailbreakme.com is back!
Thanks to some serious work by @comex, you can now jailbreak your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad right from MobileSafari — no PC or Mac needed!
Just visit http://jailbreakme.com on your device.
For those needing a carrier unlock, use the existing ultrasn0w in Cydia on your iPhone3G or iPhone3GS. After a short testing period, we’ll push out the iPhone4 version.
Note: The earlier MMS and Facetime issues have been fixed. Â If you already ran the version with those problems, launch Cydia and accept its offer to update.
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Getting out of jail is free! - Mon, 26 Jul 2010
Fantastic news today from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Â After a lot of hard work and mountains of paperwork, jailbreaking your iPhone is now explicitly a permitted fair use under the DMCA!
The first of EFF’s three successful requests clarifies the legality of cell phone “jailbreaking†— software modifications that liberate iPhones and other handsets to run applications from sources other than those approved by the phone maker. More than a million iPhone owners are said to have “jailbroken†their handsets in order to change wireless providers or use applications obtained from sources other than Apple’s own iTunes “App Store,†and many more have expressed a desire to do so. But the threat of DMCA liability had previously endangered these customers and alternate applications stores.
In its reasoning in favor of EFF’s jailbreaking exemption, the Copyright Office rejected Apple’s claim that copyright law prevents people from installing unapproved programs on iPhones: “When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by the maker of the smartphone or the maker of its operating system, the modifications that are made purely for the purpose of such interoperability are fair uses.â€
The EFF also successfully renewed the existing DMCA exception for carrier unlocking.  More on the ruling by the Library of Congress is here and here (and many other places, since this is huge news!). The full ruling is here, and EFF’s history with this case is here (EFF’s servers are understandably getting hammered today!).
This doesn’t mean that Apple will stop their technical attempts to thwart jailbreaking, but it does mean that our iPhone jailbreaks and unlocks are now unambiguously legal under the DMCA.
Great job, EFF!
