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Gizmodo: New MacBooks Disable Pwnage Tool, Open Second Front in War on Jailbreaking [Apple]
iPhone News Feeds: New MacBooks prevent users from Jailbreaking their iPhones
iPhone Hacks: New MacBook Users Reporting Problems Running iPhone Dev Team's Pwnage Tool?
Top iPhone News: New MacBooks prevent users from Jailbreaking their iPhones
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New MacBooks Disable Pwnage Tool, Open Second Front in War on Jailbreaking [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... It's a given that each firmware update for the iPhone and iPod Touch will seal up exploits used by the Dev Team to 'Pwn' the devices, but nobody expected the new MacBooks to present a problem for would-be Jailbreakers. Users over at HowardForums and ...
New MacBooks prevent users from Jailbreaking their iPhones
iPhone News Feeds —
With every iPhone update that Apple releases they try to find ways to crush advancements that the iPhone Dev Team are making. We expect firmware 2.2 will have a few different tweaks to prevent jailbreaking, what we didn’t expect was that the new MacBooks would be the next wave of defense.
People over at Howard Forums are complaining that they are unable to jailbreak their iPhone using the Pwnage Tool on newly purchased MacBooks. The new MacBooks do not recognize iPhones that are placed in recovery mode (DFU Mode), a vital step in the jailbreaking process. It seems the creation of the modified firmware is where Apple ...
New MacBook Users Reporting Problems Running iPhone Dev Team's Pwnage Tool?
iPhone Hacks —
iPhone users over at HowardForums and iPodTouchFans are reporting problems running the Pwnage Tool on the new aluminum MacBooks that were recently released by Apple. The new MacBooks don't seem to be able to recognize an iPhone when it is booted into DFU mode, an important step for creating custom iPhone firmware using the Pwnage Tool. However, the users are reporting that they are able to restore their iPhone using iTunes with the custom firmware that has been created on another other Mac or Windows machine to jailbreak the iPhone without any problem. Gizmodo who first reported this issue speculates that though the ...
New MacBooks prevent users from Jailbreaking their iPhones
Top iPhone News —
With every iPhone update that Apple releases they try to find ways to crush advancements that the iPhone Dev Team are making. We expect firmware 2.2 will have a few different tweaks to prevent jailbreaking, what we didn’t expect was that the new MacBooks would be the next wave of defense.
People over at Howard Forums are complaining that they are unable to jailbreak their iPhone using the Pwnage Tool on newly purchased MacBooks. The new MacBooks do not recognize iPhones that are placed in recovery mode (DFU Mode), a vital step in the jailbreaking process. It seems the creation of the modified firmware is where Apple ...
Apple Finds New Way To Block 'Pwning' iPhones: The MacBook
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... , which isn't even available to the general population yet. It may not matter. HowardForums users are reporting a new problem . They are having difficulty running the Pwnage tool on Apple's new MacBooks. The problem appears to be that the MacBooks aren't recognizing the iPhone (nor the iPod Touch) when it is booted in the DFU mode, which is absolutely required for jailbreaking iPhones. ...
