Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Thursday, 17 July 2008 09:12
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Zibri claims upcoming unlocking tool for all iPhones and iPods will be
a “nice proof of concept” and “very good team work”. He explains how he
sees a “real hack” working, while defending himself against claims he
“stole” other people’s work.
Unable to come up with an unlock or jailbreak tool of his own for the iPhone 3G as yet, Zibri has decided to issue some commentary on the current “
Unlock Wars” and explains why he released his original ZiPhone tool and how it wasn’t stealing.
In a post called “Free Thoughts” at the ZiPhone blog,
Zibri explains:
“In the next days some people will release what they will call the ultimate unlocking tool for all iPhones/iPods.
“While that is a nice proof of concept and a very good team work, I wish to tell you what's going to happen.
“Since a real jailbreak is not (yet) possible, they opted for a software upgrade, total internal firmware modification and custom firmware.
“For me, a real hack works this way: you upgrade to 2.0, run a program and in 4-6 minutes the phone works.
“That's because 4 to 6 minutes are needed to boot the phone a couple of times and modify a few bytes here and there.
“If you remember, the first iPhone came out in June 2007, ZiPhone came out in February 2008.
“Why so? There were already ways to unlock and activate the iPhone, and I used them but were way too buggy and difficult for the inexperienced user.
“So I used the publicly available tools as a basis to craft a tool to do things safely, quickly and properly. It was just a command line tool which did what I needed.
“As new firmwares came out I had to totally rewrite all the tools used for it to work.”
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