iPhone Dev Team claims to be dismantled, Pwnage tool dead for good?
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We’d normally chalk this kind of thing up as an April Fool’s day joke, but we’re hearing it’s real: the long standing bastions of iPhone hacking, the iPhone Dev Team, posted a note to their site stating that “[today] the DevTeam was approached by an unnamed party to sell all of the intellectual property and related applications. After much consideration [What, hours? -Ed.] the offer was accepted and the [Dev Team] has ceased.” Apparently this would include the nearly-released Pwnage tool, which was supposed to guarantee total unsigned firmware control of the iPhone. Funny thing about the hacker community though, take one down and 10 more spring up to take their place. (We’re sure the iPhone Elite team is having quite a day.) Developing…
[Thanks Andrew, Erica]
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Original post by Ryan Block
