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VIRTUALISATION iPhone Dev Team releases iPhone 3GS jailbreak and unlock tools
VIRTUALISATION iPhone Dev Team releases iPhone 3GS jailbreak and unlock tools | iPhone Dev Team releases iPhone 3GS jailbreak and unlock tools |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 08 July 2009 | |
  
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The latter point is especially significant in markets such as the US where Apple has entered into exclusive carrier deals. The earlier than expected arrival of new versions of redsn0w and ultrasn0w was prompted by George Hotz's recent release of the purplera1n jailbreak tool for the iPhone 3GS. At the time, Hotz (also known as GeoHot) chided the Dev Team for planning to hold back on its jailbreaker until iPhone 3.1 was released. The Dev Team responded by reiterating that the decision was made to maximise the number of iPhone 3GS handsets that could be hacked before Apple plugs the security hole that's used to inject the code. It turns out that Hotz and the Dev Team both used the same security vulnerability. "For those of you without 3GS phones, it's a race against the clock to use this particular hole. There's nothing we can do about that, but we will always be looking for new holes," observed the Dev Team. The new versions of redsn0w and ultrasn0w are said to work on the iPhone 3GS with iPhone 3.0 as well as earlier models and OS versions. The redsn0w release is also notable as it is the first to run on Linux as well as Mac OS X and Windows. |
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