Hackszine: iPhone http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/iphone/ O'Reilly's Hacks Series reclaims the term 'hacking' for the good guys--innovators who explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on their own en-us Copyright 2008, O'Reilly Media, Inc. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:38:13 -0800 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:19:46 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss O'Reilly Media, Inc. Clever solutions to interesting problems. Hackszine Podcast webmaster@makezine.com Technology no HOWTO - scrub private data from your iPhone Jonathan Zdziarski, author of iPhone Open Application Development, has been working on a forensics toolkit for law enforcement that allows the recovery of personal data from the iPhone. Apparently, the inspiration for this came from a discovery that refurbished iPhones,... Jonathan Zdziarski, author of iPhone Open Application Development, has been working on a forensics toolkit for law enforcement that allows the recovery of personal data from the iPhone. Apparently, the inspiration for this came from a discovery that refurbished iPhones, straight from the Apple store, often times contained personal information on the reformatted filesystem. This includes things like photos, contacts, and even more personal information that might have been in an email.

Just as you would scrub a hard disk before selling your computer, you should take a few minutes to clean the data from your iPhone if you're thinking of getting rid of it. Performing a normal restore just recreates the filesystem without completely scrubbing the drive's data, so to really clean a device before getting rid of it, you'll need to completely write over the disk. Jonathan has an article which walks you through a few simple steps to do just that. Writing over the entire disk takes quite a bit of time, so be prepared to let it sit for a couple of hours.

Making your iPhone Safe for Resale

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If you have an iPhone, or the handy User Agent Switcher for Firefox, there are a couple of sites that offer free digital versions of several popular magazines. I guess the idea is to try and capture email addresses, but you can cancel through the input boxes and get straight to the content fairly easily.

If you are using Firefox, you can fake your browser into reporting itself to web servers as an iPhone by downloading User Agent Switcher and adding an "iPhone" entry with the following user agent string under Tools->User Agent Switcher->Options:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419 (United States)

Once you've switched to that user agent profile, most sites will think you are browsing from the iPhone platform and display the content that is targeted to that device - in this case, free magazines. The two sites that provide magazine content targeted to the iPhone are:

I should mention that there are a couple of racier magazines to be found in there, so I'll stamp this one with a potential NSFW factor. I'm sure you were going to just scroll right past and check out the Reader's Digest anyway, so it's probably not worth mentioning.

[via LifeHacker and Geek.Phatus.com]

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Combined with a simple curl shell script, a private Twitter account, and a scheduled launch daemon, your iPhone can then report its location at regular intervals, which you (or anyone you authorize) can follow using Twitter and Google Maps. You could use this to find your phone if it's lost or stolen, or you might just use it to give your friends and family a way to track your current location.

iPhone LoJack

Related posts:
Command Line Twitter
Open GPS Tracker

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Nate True figured out a quick way to add speed dial icons to your iPhone 1.1.3 home screen:

So the new iPhone 1.1.3 firmware allows you to put icons on your home screen for websites, but I know many of us want to put phone numbers on there for a Speed Dial screen.

I've put a little hack together that lets you have a (somewhat) speedy speed dial icon. There's no jailbreaking required for this one - it can all be done using Apple-approved Web Clip creation.

The difficulty is that it's not as easy as loading a tel://[phone_number] URL in Safari and then adding a bookmark to the home screen. When you cancel the call, the URL displayed in Safari returns to the previous item in the browser's history. Nate's hack is to use a data: URI to redirect to the tel: address. When you cancel the call to add the bookmark, the browser returns to the data: address and you can bookmark that. Since it does an immediate redirect, clicking the link on your home screen will immediately trigger the call dialog.

If you wanted to type the whole thing in, you'd essentially enter something like this in the address bar (all on one line):

data:text/html,<html><head><meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;url=tel://12345'/></head></html>

Thankfully, Nate put together a page that will do the dirty work for you and generate the appropriate data URI for bookmarking. Just point your iPhone's Safari address to http://[phonenumber].tel.qlnk.net, then cancel the call and bookmark the resulting link.

For step-by-step photo instructions and info on using a different icon for the speed dial button, just follow the link.

iPhone 1.1.3 Speed Dial on your home screen - Link

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Jonathan Zdziarski and his editor, Andy Oram, just wrote in with the news that Jonathan's iPhone Open Application Development book is now available in "rough cut" form. Here are the details:


Certain technologies bring out everyone's hidden geek, and the iPhone did so instantly upon its release. Thousands of programmers want to provide applications on the iPhone. This book shows them how to achieve the spectacular effects that made the iPhone an immediate hit. The book covers both Apple's toolkit and an open, community-developed toolkit that has been widely downloaded and used. Author Jonathan Zdziarski, the developer of the first fully functional application using the open iPhone toolkit, now explains in clear language how to create applications using Objective-C and the iPhone API, which in some ways resembles Apple's desktop API and in some ways strikes new ground. After covering installation of the toolkits and some background about the operating system and Objective-C, the book offers detailed recipes and working examples for everyone's favorite iPhone feature. Graphics and audio programming, the CoreImage and CoreSurfaces interfaces for games programming, interfacing with iTunes, and the use of sensors are all covered. Any programmer, using this book, can provide applications that impress users just as much as the official iPhone utilities.

For the moment, this version of the book covers the community SDK, but when we have more information on the Apple SDK, it will be updated to cover it.

O'Reilly's Rough Cuts give you early access to content on cutting-edge technologies -- before it's published. You can buy just the PDF ($19.99) or get the PDF now and a copy of the book when it's finished ($43.99). Pick up a copy and start writing some apps for your iPhone! iPhone Open Application Development Rough Cut - Link

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Download PocketGuitar and you'll be able to rock a virtual guitar or bass on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Get a friend to load up the BeatPhone drum sequencer and you can get the virtual band back together.

You've got to appreciate the $400 mp3 consumer being converted into a music creation device.

I was peeking at the source tree for PocketGuitar and the sample data is composed of normal WAV files, one for each string. You can simply replace these with your own note recordings to give your iPhone its own unique effects.

PocketGuitar: Virtual Guitar for iPhone and iPod touch - Link
BeatPhone: The beatbox for the iPhone - Link

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Collin Meyer put together a working tutorial for making use of the iPhone and iPod Touch's RX and TX lines as a standard unix serial port.

This tutorial will explain how to use the serial RX and TX lines on the Iphone as a standard UART serial port. Software on the Iphone can access the UART using the same libraries and functions as in any UNIX software.

With this, you could attach an external GPS unit to your iPhone, or even connect an Arduino and use your iPhone as a data uplink and control system for your next embedded project.

Iphone Serial Port Tutorial - [via] Link

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The Touchmods team recently released a working version of their iPod Touch VoIP app, making it possible for Touch owners to place outgoing calls on the device.

The Touch doesn't come with a built-in mic, so part of the hack involves either modifying a Walmart iVoice III mic, buying a Touchmods designed add-on, or building your own from their schematics. After that, you just need to add http://touchmods.net/rep.xml to the Installer's package source list, install the SIP-VoIP.app, configure it with a SIP account and hop on a WiFi connection.

Incoming calls are not supported yet, and as far as I can tell this isn't an open source project. Charlie Sorrel from Wired's Gadget Lab describes it as being fairly buggy at this stage, and was unable to get it to function, but we'll see how things progress after a few version updates. Anyone out there with an iTouch who wants to give this a shot and report back their findings?

VoIP For iPod Touch - [via] Link
DIY iPod Touch Mic - Link

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Erica Sadun is at it again with another useful iPhone hack. By updating the Preferences.app's Settings-iPhone.plist file with a tweaked version, you can enable a number of hidden options right within the Settings screen. Prior to this, you could tweak these parameters with various property list edits, but this makes it easy to customize your phone in a more user-friendly manner.

Mess with your iPhone Settings screens - Link
Replacement Settings-iPhone.plist - Link

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The Monster and Friends Design Studio released a beta version of an iPhone camcorder app today. The hack's author, drunknbass, was able to squeeze about 10fps out of the camera when capturing data at a 2 megapixel HD framesize.

The current beta will do this for 5 seconds, but the author alludes to a future version being able to record indefinitely long clips at a higher frame rate. This may only be achievable at the sacrifice of the huge frame size, though. I'd assume that there are some non-trivial data throughput and compression horsepower limitations that would make long recordings at high framerate and high resolution pretty difficult.

I'm hoping the next version is released with source. Hopefully, with a few heads taking a crack at optimizing things, iPhone users will get a slick guerilla video platform out of this.

iPhone Video Recording - [via] Link

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If you bricked your iPhone by updating an unlocked device, the iPhone Elite dev team has a tool that will restore it to its inital virgin state. It will safely back up and then restore the seczone area of the phone, undoing the bug created by the inital unlock code.

RevirginizingTool - Link

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If you have a jailbreak'd iPhone, you can update the Maps.app database with tiles from OpenStreetMap. Mikel Maron figured out how to update the Maps sqlite DB and was able to import the street tiles for London.

My first idea was to modify the configuration or constant that the Maps App used for constructing Google Maps tile requests. Andrew helped with decompiling and pointers to other files, but we had no luck as yet. But looking at the app or at the GMM module in a hex editor, there appeared to be SQL inserts of tile pointers .. perhaps Maps was using a database to cache requested tiles. Searching through the filesystem found MapTiles.sqlitedb. That db has just two tables..

This is slick. You still use the built-in Maps interface, but you can add whatever you like to its database. Technically you could alter the database with any map tiles you like. One idea would be to make an alternate database file and fill it with topo-maps. Just swap the file out and you can use the Maps application when you're backpacking.

OpenStreetMap on the iPhone - Link
OpenStreetMap - Link
SQLite Tutorial - Link

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Listening to music on your Linux desktop doesn't mean having to duplicate all your audio onto your local harddrive. By streaming your music over WiFi from the iPhone or iPod Touch, you can keep your music portable.

Using two programs called FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) and sshfs we can mount the iPhone filesystem in Linux, then configure ssh key pairs so we can connect without needing to sudo or login as root every time we want to sync the phone, then we'll install beta versions of Libgpod and Rythmbox to end up with something insanely great.

We've talked about the sshfs FUSE filesystem before, but this is a pretty cool application for it. You're basically turning your iPhone into a wireless harddisk. Unlike a normal portable drive, you can access it from multiple machines at the same time. This allows a couple people to listen to different tunes off the same iPhone library simultaneously.

How To: Stream Music From The iPhone In Ubuntu - Link

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A working TIFF buffer overflow exploit was finally released for the iPhone 1.1.1 firware and the iPod Touch! This is huge for iPod Touch fans, as it means we can finally install other apps on the device. Like before, it'll probably be a few days before there is a user-friendly tool, but if you don't mind working through it, there are now working instructions available for both devices.

The first step to jailbreaking the devices is loading up a special TIFF file in Safari which remounts the storage in read-write mode. I don't want to be a fear monger, but I'm a little concerned about a couple of things here:

  1. I haven't seen source released anywhere, so who knows what the image is doing with root access on your phone
  2. It's completely realistic to think that a more sinister version of the TIFF exploit could eventually be peppered around the web in comments and forum postings

It'd be smart for the iPhone and iPod Touch Dev teams to release the exploit code as well as instructions to manually apply the patch for libtiff. It'd be pretty ironic (not to mention good PR) for the dev teams to beat Apple to the security update. Especially since the update requires the jailbreak process to get it installed.

Links:
iPod Touch Jailbreak Guide - Link
iPhone Dev Team announces public iPhone 1.1.1 Jailbreak - Link
iPhone v1.1.1 Jailbreak & AppTapp Installation Guide - Link

Also Worth Reading:
Heap-based buffer overflow: how the iPhone and iPod Touch could be hacked - Link

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NightLight wrote in with a request for a red overlay to "use your iphone in the dark but keep your night vision." I was reminded of the hacks about using red film in Astronomy Hacks: put it over your PDA or notebook computer, and you are all set. But to try it out, I needed to find an astronomy site that works well on the iPhone. Many online planetariums use Java to do their thing, but Your Sky is a great web site that does a couple of things simply and quite well: you can punch in your latitude and longitude, and you get a view of exactly what's above you at the moment. You can tap to zoom in, and you can pan around. Just what I needed. (To save a little time, figure out your latitude and longitude on your Mac, save a bookmark for your Your Sky page in Safari, and sync your bookmarks to your iPhone so you can get to the star chart quickly.)

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The heap, however, _is_ executable, and a heap based buffer overflow which exploits the libtiff bug may be the way to gain usable access to the iPod Touch and the 1.1.1 upgraded iPhone.

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If you've previously unlocked your iPhone, or you are considering doing it in the future, you should probably hold off updating your phone for the moment. Apple's recent 1.1.1 firmware update has been bricking hacked phones, and though there's a method for downgrading back to 1.0.2, the telephony portion of the device will remain broken (well.. until someone resolves this, hopefully soon).

Hackintosh has this quick summary:

1) If you have unlocked your phone at all, regardless of whether it's to use another sim / carrier or even just for fun and you're still using the AT&T sim, DO NOT UPDATE to 1.1.1 unless you want to render your phone useless. It will not work afterwards as things stand at the moment.

2) If you haven't unlocked your phone and you haven't jailbroken it and want to update to 1.1.1, you will not be able to jailbreak it afterwards as things stand. Until someone does Jailbreak 1.1.1, this will not change.

3) If you are still using Firmware 1.0.2, you can still synch with iTunes. If iTunes suggests you update your iPhone, just say no. In Preferences, you can turn off the setting to look for updates automatically so iTunes won't even bother asking.

4) Your 1.0.2 Phone will not just brick itself. Apple can't beam an auto bricker to your phone....You have to help them by trying to update to 1.1.1 after you've hacked it. Apple warned you, there's countless tales of woe on these forums that should serve as a warning....JUST DON"T DO IT!!!

5) If you haven't hacked your phone in anyway whatsoever and you want a cute Starbucks logo to appear everytime you're near one (as well as the other updates) then you should be fine, as long as you're aware of point 2.

As I mentioned, if you've already performed the update, you can restore the previous os firmware. None of the phone features will work, but at least you'll have your applications and WiFi connectivity back. Methods for restoring the phone's original baseband firmware, as well as an unlock method for the new firware are in the works, so my recommendation would be to just hold tight with the 1.0.2 firmware until the kinks are worked out.

Downgrade from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2 - Link
Want to update to FW 1.1.1? READ THIS FIRST! - Link

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There is, however, a T-Mobile WAP to HTTP proxy server that will (assuming your device is configured correctly) allow you to browse the web on the cheap plan, and this is just what Windows Mobile users have been doing for a while to get affordable, unlimited, mobile web service. Now that the iPhone is easily unlocked and usable with T-Mobile's service, you can do the same. You just need to configure your iPhone to use the proxy server. It's a little slower, but at 6 bucks, it's probably the cheapest data plan available.

T-Zones (a.k.a. $5.99 Internet access) on the iPhone - Link
iUnlock: free software-based iPhone unlock utility - Link

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Over at the iPhone Dev Wiki, people are taking a crack at hacking the iPod Touch. The discussion so far is that Apple has encoded the firmware image differently for the iPod Touch. Because of this, there is currently no working jailbreak method that will allow you to get 3rd party software onto the deivce. I'm pretty excited for this to get sorted out... there are some key features that are sadly missing from the iPod Touch.

Keep your fingers crossed, though. Here are a few things you'll be able to do once this obstacle is surmounted:

  • enable SSH access
  • copy Mail, Maps, Stocks and Weather apps from an iPhone to the iPod
  • install important 3rd party software like Apollo IM (AIM client) and NES.app (Nintendo emulator)

Personally, I just want a nice little WiFi-enabled web client that I can install apps on for, say, a hundred bucks less than the iPhone.

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Today was a busy day for iPhone hacking. First, example exploit code that unlocked the iPhone was released by the iPhone hacker Zappaz. Shortly thereafter a full iPhone unlocking utility became available at the iPhone Dev Wiki, along with step-by-step instructions for making it all work. The source is available for both codebases, so it's cool to see that the hack is no longer exclusively in the hands of closed-source, iPhone unlocking profiteers.

It takes about 20 minutes, but when you're done you'll be able to use your iPhone with any network you please, without even cracking the case. [via]

iUnlock - Link (Source)
iUnlock guide - Link
iPhone imode exploit example code - Link

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NES.app is a full blown Nintendo emulator for the iPhone. It supports the device's multitouch interface, so you can use the virtual on-screen game pad with your thumbs, just like the Nintendo gods intended.

NES.app uses a heavily modified version of the InfoNES emulation core to mimic the 6502 processor in a Nintendo Entertainment System, allowing you to play ROM dumps of games designed for the NES console.

NES.app started as a fork of iPhoneNES v0.01, but has been completely rewritten to run very fast, and with many additional features including sound, multitouch support, full-screen, landscape mode, game genie codes, saved games and much more.

It's supposed to run pretty well, but if you're using game genie codes or a more graphically demanding title, there's a frame-drop feature... It'll still play realtime, but just a bit choppier.

What I'm really excited about, though, is the state saving ability, which allows you to stop a game mid-play and then start it again from that point at a later time. I could never beat Contra even after resorting to some "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, b, a, select, start" business, and my Super Mario skills have always been wanting, so maybe this is my chance to regain some 1980s self respect.

NES.app: The Nintendo Emulator for iPhone - Link

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Until now, you've needed to be selective about what applications are added to the iPhone's home screen. There are a lot of great 3rd party apps becoming available, but the OS doesn't have the ability to show more than 16 at a time on the home screen.

Nate True fixed this problem with Dock, an iPhone application that sits on top of the home screen and allows you to scroll through all of your installed applications. Slick.

Dock: iPhone mod to enable scrolling in the home screen - Link

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Erling Ellingsen figured out how to retrieve high sample rate measurements from the iPhone's built-in accelerometer:

As it turns out, the iPhone has a built-in LIS302DL, a tiny 3-axis accelerometer. While some have attempted to use it from within the Safari browser (the Tilt game detects changes to the width of the browser page; it is basically used as a 1-bit input device), its potential is still somewhat untapped.

He's posted the necessary source, so now you can get to work on your own motion-input applications.

iPhone accelerometer source code - Link

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The first version of a native AIM client for the iPhone was released today under the GPL2 license! It's based on the libFiretalk IM library, and it currently provides basic chat functionality. This snippet from their project page is interesting, though:

The overall direction of the project is to get libPurple compiled for the iPhone and move to it asap in order to provide more than AIM. Firetalk's old and unmaintained, while Purple has a community devoted to it.

The idea is to provide an "Adium" for the iPhone, and we're moving towards it.

Real IM is the killer app for this device, and it's stilla wonder to me that iChat wasn't included in the standard OS build. Perhaps this project will put some pressure on Apple to release an iPhone-based iChat in a future update.

Download Apollo IM (Zip) - Link
Apollo IM Project Page - Link

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Jon Maddox made a nifty tool that let's you easily create web application bookmarks that dock on your iPhone's home screen.

Tired of going all the way to MobileSafari on your iPhone to use web apps that were built with the "sweet" iPhone SDK?

Provide iPhone Apper with a URL, name, and icon... and iPhone Apper will provide you with an application to install* onto your iPhone. A quick reboot, and your favorite and most visited web application is available from the home screen.

You provide the url, title and a png icon file and it will create the little application for copying to your iPhone's Applications folder. You can really only squeeze 16 icons on the home screen, so choose your web apps wisely.

iPhone Apper - Link

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George Hotz spent his summer hacking the iPhone, blew a hole through the Apple/AT&T carrier restriction and has single-handedly put the positive form of the word "hacker" in more popular media channels than I've ever before seen. Excellent!

The hack is brilliant:

Here how the bootrom check works; it reads from 0xA0000030 0xA000A5A0 0xA0015C58 0xA0017370 and all these addresses must read as blank, or 0xFFFFFFFF. When you erase flash, it becoms 0xFFFFFFFF. But you can't erase those locations, because they are in the bootloader. So thats where the testpoint comes in. Pulling A17 high hardware OR's the address bus with 0x00040000(offset one because data bus is 16 bit) So the bootrom instead checks locations 0xA0040030 0xA004A5A0 0xA0045C58 0xA0047370, which are in the main firmware and can be erased.

You'll need to do a little tight soldering and get familiar with a hex editor. Engadget is reporting that there's a working, though not released, all-software tool that will accomplish the same, but George's hack can executed done today, and there's a full set of instructions on his blog.

Links:
New Jersey teen cracks iPhone network lock - [via Chris Hartgraves] Link
George Hotz' iPhone unlocking HOWTO - Link
Engadget verifies iPhone software unlock utility - Link
iPhone unlocked using SIM cloning - Link

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It's never been easier to run all the hackey apps and games on your iPhone, just get Installer.app Beta and you're all set... - Link.

Related:
How To: Install Nintendo Games and Play With Tactile Feedback in Your iPhone - Link.

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There's a new update for iPhones, it says "bug fixes"... it seems louder to me, but otherwise I'm not sure what changed.

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It's not a consumer-friendly hack, but some of the uber hackers over on the hackint0sh forum have figured out a way to use other carrier's SIM cards in the iPhone using some SIM cloning techniques. The method was posted by a person claiming the device now completely works with service in Croatia.

Hopefully a reader who understands more about this stuff can correct me, but I'll take a pass at explaining how this works. First off, the SIM in your device is like a small computer. In addition to storing a small amount of data, it also contains a mechanism for performing a challenge-response sequence using an internal secret key, which is how the carrier detects if your SIM is a legitimate card and hasn't been tampered with. This key, referred to as Ki, cannot be read from the card, so the only way to obtain it is to get it from the carrier (not a chance), or by way of a brute force attack (takes 4 or 5 hours).

So, with the hack, you use some special hardware to extract the carrier information from your network's SIM and the AT&T SIM. You also brute force the Ki value for your SIM. Then, you program a new SIM with your carrier's data, as well as some atypical functionality. This special programming on your cloned SIM card returns the network identifier (IMSI) of the AT&T SIM for the first few tries, and then continues to function as your normal carrier's SIM. I'm presuming this is to trick the iPhone into accepting your card as an AT&T SIM during boot, but then switching back to the alternate SIM when it connects to the network.

Long story short, it's quite a lot of crud to have to wade through just to use a $600 phone in Vermont, Croatia, or anywhere else on the planet you desire to reside.

Here's a priceless snippet from an interview on VideoGamer.com:

VideoGamer: Do you think hackers have an unfairly bad reputation?

Deepdark: Listen, let's talk about the iPhone situation. Apple has 10000 employees and they are against us because we are bricking them by hacking their protection. On another side are end users who are 1,000,000 strong maybe. They are happy. So like you see, it's a big difference.

VideoGamer: But isn't it Apple's right to have their own protection on their products?

Deepdark: Yes, but you can't sell a car and then say to the buyer, "hey listen, you must drive 50kmh". It's so stupid.

...

VideoGamer: In the end do you think these projects actually make the iPhone more desirable to consumers?

Deepdark: Of course. We are making the product more useful. Imagine a world without hackers. You won't live in that world.

Amen to that.

References:
Tutorial: "Unlock" your iPhone with SuperSim - Link
iPhone fully unlocked using sim-cloning - Link
Subscriber Identity Module @ Wikipedia - Link

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Erica made an iPhone voice recorder utility, wow! She writes -
I was pretty sure the capability was in there to begin with--after all, didn't the Steve promise us one back in the January Keynote? So that certainty made the class hunt go a little quicker.

When I returned home from the Apple Store Genius Bar with my new loaner, I put all that thought into code and this is what turned up: my newly written iPhone Voice Recorder utility. Yes, it is little more than a proof-of-concept but (a) it works, and (b) is the first step towards iPhone VOIP.

The recorder saves in Adaptive Multi-rate format (.amr files) that you can play back in QuickTime. I put them into the /tmp folder and tell you the name of the file when you finish your recording.

iPhone Voice Recorder Utility - Link.

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