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July 15, 2007
iPhone hacking ensues
It seems the iPhone I brought to Israel has entered a hazardous environment...
A group of hackers which would rather stay anonymous and go by the collective name of "carnage4ever" are working hard at it day and night.
Since they gotten it, they've gone pretty far for two days:
They can communicate with the iPhone's GSM device directly by running their custom software ON the iPhone, and are sending plain old MODEM (Hayes AT) commands to the GSM baseband device.
They have already managed to read the flash of the GSM baseband as well as other interesting tidbits of information on the device. It seems the iPhone is probably using the "Personalization Network", or "PN" security facility to lock itself amongst other things. They are working on reverse engineering the GSM firmware on the device to get the secret code needed to unlock the device.
If you feel like helping out or cheering them you can send your love and advice in IRC: carnage4ever@irc.osx86.hu
Tags: Apple, iPhone, AT&T, Jeff Pulver
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Posted by jeff on July 15, 2007 01:15 PM | Permalink
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thanks for this post
Posted by: jbr at August 15, 2008 04:14 PM
So even the name Yaniv Aknin is a throw-off, and not one of the member's real name ?
Also, is carnage4ever related to geek-garage?
Posted by: what i've done at July 16, 2007 06:32 PM
Message to the team,
Best of luck in your effort to reverse engineer and share your knowledge about the iPhone. Keep up your great work.
Posted by: Kempton at July 16, 2007 12:57 PM
Hmmm - does that also mean that carnage4ever has already created a toolchain? If so, have they put the code into the iPhone binutils project? http://developer.berlios.de/projects/iphone-binutils/
Thanks.
Posted by: a at July 15, 2007 08:46 PM