PwnageTool

PwnageTool is a jailbreak method by the iPhone Dev Team. PwnageTool can jailbreak any iPhone while preserving the baseband, which is sometimes necessary to unlock.

PwnageTool and QuickPwn for 2.1 Firmware

It's official. It's clean. It's easy and it works without having to pull your hair out! That, my friends, is the new releases of PwnageTool 2.1 for Mac OS X and QuickPwn 1.1 for Mac OS X. The DevTeam worked all day and all night to bring you an easy way to jailbreak your iPhone 3G.

Yesterday, we were presented a way to jailbreak the iPod Touch is a couple shady QuickPwn that turned out to be "fake" tools that were not developed by the DevTeam but used their name anyway. Then, BigBoss released a tutorial on how to jailbreak the iPhone 3G but that was still kinda hard for non geekie guys to use.

I don't like copy/pasting large parts of other people's posts but I think it is very relevant to do this in the case of the latest post on the DevTeam blog:

Some of the popular press and blogs have been backing the opposition. :-)

While criticism and competition is fine it should be reported correctly, with all the facts. and certainly minus the FUD. Do you guys think we are “less and less relevant with each passing day” ? We don’t think so, and we certainly prefer our hacks to theirs. ;-)  Though even if the world deems us irrelevant, the iPhone family of devices is still fun to hack!

By the way we figured out a way to combat iTunes 8 without patches…and we’re waiting to see what Apple tries next.  But we think they might want to rethink their priorities.  They probably won’t though, and so we get back to the “cat and mouse” game between Apple and the Dev Team and third-party communities.

Whatever this guy at Engadget says, I still think jailbreaking your iPhone is more relevant than ever. Do you really want to rely on Apple? I don't! Anyways, this is not the point of this post...

Downloads:

PwnageTool 2.1 for Mac OS X QuickPwn 1.1 for Mac OS X

These can be downloaded from the iPhone Downloads section of my blog.

SHA1 Sums:

PwnageTool_2.1.dmg = 0b2dcb51e224b12590793e8a758dd80c450e5b64 QuickPwn_1.1.dmg = 92487230c66296ec1e414260b5f107e5d351923f

Hey, this is for iPhone 3G only and as you can notice, it is for Mac only. A Windows version is coming out pretty soon. A QuickPwn tutorial can be found here and a PwnageTool Guide can be found here.

Apple Counters PwnageTool In iTunes 8, Patches Coming

The DevTeam said many times before that Apple cannot the bug they've exploited in PwnageTool unless they change the hardware, which is impossible until the next iPhones come out. While this is still true, Apple managed to have iTunes 8 detect and prevent the Pwnage exploit.

But hey, this is not gonna stop the DevTeam:

The nice thing about iTunes decisions is that we can provide you with patches to counter them.  We have one such patch already for Mac iTunes 8 for iPod touch.  We’ll be working out the full suite of patches for all the combinations over the next week.

Bugs found in PwnageTool for Mac and Windows Beta of QuickPwn

The DevTeam posted on its blog a few hours ago that bugs have been found in the recent releases of the PwnageTool for Mac and the Windows Beta of QuickPwn.

We’ve had some issues with iPod touch devices and the latest version of PwnageTool for the Mac, in certain conditions incorrect permissions will be used and the keychain doesn’t save passwords. So hold on and wait for the next release, we’ll push out the updated version via Sparkle as soon as it is tested (it is being tested right now). We have also encountered some issues with the Windows Beta of QuickPwn, and we have an update that should fix the issues seen with 64-bit Windows versions and should be able to be used with all versions of Windows, but as with all beta software other bugs may be present.

A new Windows QuickPwn Release Candidate (RC3) was made available.

PwnageTool 2.0.3

Well, I just posted and "predicted" that following a short post on the the DevTeam's blog they would make available an updated version of their PwnageTool. I was right on as they just announced that PwnageTool 2.0.3 for Mac OS X is now available as a Sparkle update, or a direct download here.

So what's new on PwnageTool 2.0.3?

Support for iPhone/iPod touch firmware 2.0.2 5C1 Updated version of Installer.app beta 6 New .de localization for German speaking users

DevTeam warns us that:

The application SHOULD ONLY be downloaded as a .tbz file from our servers and should NOT be decompressed using the application called “the unarchiver” (this breaks permissions within PwnageTool) just use the standard OS X built in ‘Archive Utility’ to decompress. The SHA1 sum of PwnageTool_2.0.3.tbz is 91e670e0c623cd43f5e8cfbfaae6c23d98d8f31b.

The DevTeam is cooking something up

The DevTeam just posted a short message that could easily have been twittered...

We are just flicking some switches and connecting some cables, we’ll have some stuff for you soon. (no it isn’t any type of 3G unlock). I am pretty sure they are going to release a one-click version of their PwnageTool for Mac. We'll see what they come up with.