PWNED – Custom iPhone Frimware Utilities

Over the long weekend, my phone and email was buzzing with all the latest stories and readers wondering why I had not posted anything about PWNED. I did see all the commotion going on, and I decided to post when the dust has settled and I could give a better summary as to what is going on, and from the looks of things, we will all be waiting a little longer as the devs pick through the code to remove any copyright infringements (from little things like the rainbow apple logo that must be removed to any code or copyrighted data being bundled and distributed with PWNED)

Aside from the hold back, it looks like the Dev’s have finished compiling the tools to take a stock Apple iPhone restore file (.ipsw) and trick it out so that you can use it to restore an iPhone with iTunes, and upon completion, you will have an activated, jailbreaked, unlocked and customized iPhone. It is completely reversible and supposedly works on all firmwares and bootloaders, including the new leaked apple firmware 2.0.

Pwnage Tool: Allows you to select an iPhone ipsw file and “pwn” it, aka customize it to include all sorts of goodies, from unlock patches to BSDSubsystem and other add ons all done during your restore

iPwner: The actual process of of pwning the iPhone that patches the bootlader to allow custom UNLOCKED bootloaders to be assigned and installed/restored by iTunes.

IPWS Builder: Select the features you would like bundled into your custom PWNED firmware, like having your baseband Nuetered and unlocked, uploading custom boot screens, enable baseband updates etc..

BootNeuter: a native iPhone app (runs on your iPhone itself) that allows you to customize your bootloader and unlock your baseband, amazing,

more detials will be out by Thursday or Friday when the utility is released for public consumption. Till then get you iPhones backed up and ready, I am sure allot of you will be trying this out, myself included.

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MOSCOW, Russia, March 29, 2008

Today key members of “The iPhone DevTeam” demonstrated the long-awaited software application “Pwnage Tool”. The demonstration took place at the iPhone 3.0 party which brought together hundreds of iPhone hardware and software enthusiasts.

• The software is a self contained application (for MacOS 10.4.x and 10.5.x) that allows all current models of the iPhone device to be “Pwned”. This term (in relation to this software) refers to the patching of the stock bootloader so that it will allow the execution of unsigned code and circumvent code-signing checks. “Pwnage” only needs to be performed once to allow the additional features on the iPhone.

• The application also processes and modifies existing Apple archives so that unique, custom rolled firmware bundles can be installed onto the “Pwned” iPhone directly from iTunes.

• These ”.ipsw” files can be created and patched by the application to allow third-party modifications such as activation, application installation, baseband modification, custom phone graphics etc.

• The tool works automatically on box-fresh (OTB) 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 iPhones and requires minimal interaction from the user.

The tool also ships with an iPhone application that is automatically installed and run on first boot (if the user requests it) that is called “BootNeuter”, This will enable “Bootneutering” of the iPhone baseband allowing custom firmware to be installed. Arbitrary secpacks and fls files will be accepted when the device is in this state, please refer to the application help file for specific information.

If the user has access to developer versions of the iPhone software (such as 1.2 or 2.0) provisions have been made to support this software and allow it to be used on any device. This will be useful for legitimate SDK trialists to install their software on more than one device, this should not be used unless you are an official member of the SDK programme.

High quality videos of the presentation given today are available in both English and Russian

ENDS