Found Footage: iPhone restore screen hacked

Looks like the iPhone hacking teams are at it again. This time they have created a custom image where the normal "Connect to iTunes" image should be on a normal iPhone. This image, used when you restore your iPhone or iPod touch, was a yellow triangle and has been updated to the iPod connector and iTunes icon in recent iPhone/touch firmware versions.

Thanks to roxfan, Turbo, wizdaz, bgm, and pumpkin

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Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mYSGbm02zQ

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Looks like the iPhone hacking teams are at it again. This time they have created a custom image where the normal "Connect to iTunes" image...

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yvonne

does the iphone have any malicous effect if the installer package is installed in other words, jailbreaking it?

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February 28 2008 at 11:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Johannes Lindenbaum

It's the dev teams official start of custom firmware. Not just replacing the boot logo - it's the entire boot image.

Hence why the dev teams names show up in the credits.

Screw zibri, screw ziphone.

February 27 2008 at 12:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Matt

Really? Screw ZiPhone? It's made alot of IPhone users who couldn't previously jailbreak there phones really happy, not to mention those whose phones it unlocked...

February 27 2008 at 11:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bezman

ok, i asked pumpkin on irc, and it is recovery mode ;)

February 27 2008 at 12:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bezman

lol, this is allot bigger than allot of you think. remember this next week or so when this is THE big deal..

February 26 2008 at 9:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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bezman

you can see he start up the phone (presses power) then it boots apple logo, then boots a different screen "PWNED" then it goes to the normal phone lock or to the slide to unlock screen if you don't have a password/sim lock activated...

February 26 2008 at 11:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

xaqtly

"allot" "allot"

Why do you keep using that word? I do not think it means what you think it means.

http://www.dictionary.com

February 27 2008 at 11:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

lane

That's the longest Video of a still shot I've ever seen!

Still, not bad if they can hack the firmware (if that's how they did it anyway)

Faslane

February 26 2008 at 8:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Zachary Bedell

This likely indicates some sort of bug has been found in the bootloader's digital signature checking. Images are signed as of the 1.1.1 release, and I'm pretty sure replacing an image would require a signature exploit.

If that's the case, it's awesome. It means even if Apple patches the kernel bug in ziphone, there's another bug in the restore which may be quite a bit more difficult to patch.

February 26 2008 at 8:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

robogobo

ubergay

February 26 2008 at 8:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

billg

THAT WAS AMAZING GUYS!!! TEH COOLEST THING EVER I'VE BEEN WAITING SOOOOOOO LONG FOR THIS

CAN YOU LIVEBLOG AN INTERVIEW WITH THE DEVELOPER AND TALK BACK AND FORTH IN LEETSPEAK??!!1 HEHEHEHHHEH

DO THEY HAVE ANY PLANS ON RELEASING A UPGRADE SCREEN WALLPAPER CHANGER SDK (COME ON APPLE >:( !!!!!! )I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT PROGRAMMING ABUT I WOULD LIKE TO TRY AN HELP ON MY IPONE THANKS FOR ALL U HELP GUYs11111

ugh......

February 26 2008 at 7:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mark

You know, since only one of you even got the point of this, why don't the rest of you stop posting comments on iPhone hacking articles?

Go play a video game or eat something.

February 26 2008 at 7:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

xaqtly

At the end it asked "any questions?" Yeah I have a question - what the hell was the point of that? Am I supposed to care or something? Geez, do something useful on the iPhone and then maybe I'll give a crap.

February 26 2008 at 6:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply