iPhone Hacks For Firmware 1.1.1 Begin to Surface
By Sean P. Aune
Not that anyone expected the 1.1.1 version of the iPhone firmware to be unhackable, it’s still nice to see the hacks finally starting to appear.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog has been liveblogging their attempts all day, following the steps of the hackers “dinopio” and “Edgan”, and seem to be having some success.
It appears the blogger, Erica Sadun, has managed to get read/write access to the directories of the upgrade, and is working that method still.
Meanwhile, over at the Hackintosh forums, they are working on a solution that uses a TIFF exploit. By opening a TIFF file of their own creation with Mobile Safari, they hope to crash the browser and cause a buffer overflow. If successful, this will allow them to execute the codes they need to to hack the popular phone.
The hacks are all still in process, but seem to be on the right track to getting in.
Of course, this will all be moot once firmware 1.1.2 or 1.2 comes out and breas the hacks again.
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