“Hackers are working to unlock Apple Inc.’s iPhone, but the job appears to be more difficult than initially expected,” Sumner Lemon reports for IDG News Service.
“Hackers had hoped that modifying the iPhone’s bootloader — the program that runs before the operating system is loaded — would unlock the handset. But that turned out to be a dead end, as the bootloader code must be signed using a 1,024-bit RSA private key employed by Apple,” Lemon reports.
“The iPhone is locked for use with AT&T Inc.’s EDGE network. Unlocking the iPhone will allow the handsets to be used with other operators, including carriers in Asia and Europe, where the phone is not yet available,” Lemon reports.
Full article here.
Hey Zuney boy,
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Why don’t you keep a cow at home for its milk, so that you can save lots of money, and so that you can also ‘tune’ the cow to get maximum ‘performance’.
Or make your own rolls of toilet paper… oh, that’s what you use your Zune for!
um Petey?
I don’t think anyone asked for your opinion, you make it sound like you’re ok with PC’s having viruses. You think PC’s have viruses because people actually CARE to write them? it’s because the operating system is completely unstable and wide open. Go back to PCWorld.com and post your garbage, no room for you here, jealous boy. BTW, do you really feel better being able to ‘bulid’ your own machines, can you say vulnerable??
Zune Tang, you are piping the “obscurity” myth, when the only thing that is “obscure” is the Zune. Dude, you should change your screen name.
I, also, have yet to see a Zune on the street, and I live in Atlanta, and I get out alot.
You said: “just like nobody is interested in writing viruses for MACS. I haven’t seen one of these things out in the wild and I probably never will”.
Correctomundo, pal…and the iPod recycle bin is STILL empty!
@ APPLguy,
very well said, and I have to agree. I’ve not seen ONE zune since it’s release, not one. The Zune zucks, and for good reason, who actually uses the word ‘social’ anymore. Also, when your biggest feature is described as ‘squirting’ I think it’s just easier to accept defeat and take your losses because there are many my PC friends, many.
Hey Petey,
Did we mention that 12 year olds like you are not allowed to post here? But since you are just possibly capable of reading consider these facts.
1. Apple has just had by all accounts, the most successful product launch of any electronics product in history. Well over 700,000 units sold in three days.
2. In a recent security test not a single hacker could break into the Mac remotely. They finally had to grant root access and even then it proved more difficult than a Windows machine (though Vista IS an improvement in this area…but how could it NOT be? with over 144,000 viruses for the platform vs. zero for the Mac in the same time period).
So…put on your tiny thinking cap here and eke out the biggest amount of logic your reptile brain can muster…
If someone broke into the incredibly hyped and celebrated iPhone it would be the single biggest “hacker coup” in history.
Or they could go produce yet another “critical” threat to windows (there were SIX last week alone!!!!!)…for the purposes of adding more imbecelic windows users to their botnet to enable another DDOS.
Apple was, is, and will always be a superior hardware, software combination to anything produced by the forced marriage of hydrocephalic babies Microsoft, Dell, HP, and hundreds of other soon to drinking pond water PC users.
Have I clarified it for you? Since you are busy “building” your own PC (what an absolute joke THAT is)…build any hard drives or create any of your own motherboards lately?(…jeez what a tool).. I suspect you are blinded by your own falsely generated sense of your own importance.
Get a mac…and find out what a great computer is.
“What part of “different radio hardware” don’t these people understand? This phone will not work on Verizon or Sprint or even Telus (in Canada) simply because of different radio hardware. It may allow for it to run on some European networks, but the 3G hardware just isn’t there.”
@mrmikey
AT&T are not the only GSM provider. In Canada, Rogers and Fido (owned by Rogers) use GSM, and so does T-Mobile in the US.
Zune Tang! Forgot to say that AAPL is up today…AGAIN!! Would you like for one of us to buy you a Mac with our earnings?
um Petey?
I don’t think anyone asked for your opinion, you make it sound like you’re ok with PC’s having viruses. You think PC’s have viruses because people actually CARE to write them? it’s because the operating system is completely unstable and wide open. Go back to PCWorld.com and post your garbage, no room for you here, jealous boy. BTW, do you really feel better being able to ‘bulid’ your own machines, can you say vulnerable??
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ROFL
Im here stay boy.
Petey (Mac user 16+years experience).
Message to hackers – GO FUCK YOURSELF AND DIE.
I’m sure the PC masses will come back throwing their percentages of the market at us. Yes, you have 90% of the market, 89% only use them because of Word and use it BADLY I might add. get a clue, percentages obviously don’t phase us, and never will.
Re: Zune Tang
He builds his own PCs… He ‘tunes’ Windows to get ‘maximum performance’ out of his games… He revealed earlier he has a ‘stable’ of Zunes… He posts appalling unsubstiantiated PC fanboy lemming drivel on an Apple news site in the sure knowledge he’ll receive some direct human contact… What a sad, desperate, pathetic life! The more I think about it, the more I think Zune Tang should be pitied, rather than despised…
Obviously, there are some here (ie jg2000, pr) that can read about as well as “Petey” can eloquently express himself. How fitting. LOL
I saw two of these last night at Citywalk – both sitting in the theatre within one row. You must be blind.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/FB61F893-BE64-46C5-9B16-7F3AE485C162.html
@Zune Tang
I’ve personally “switched” four people from WM5 phones to the iPhone in the last week. They couldn’t be happier. No more random reboots, no more 3rd party applications, installed with the best intentions, wreaking havoc on their phones, no more external memory cards with only a 2GB limitation to hassle with, no more four minute boot up time, no more battling the task mangler to close applications since the “smart”phone isn’t “smart” enough to handle it and no more crappy UI that looks like it’s from the 90’s.
Funny how Apple can outsell M$’s MP3 player with a phone in the first week of sales. Took M$ almost a year to accomplish what Apple did in a week.
After the initial honeymoon period is over, people will not want to bother with the iPhone consider its “revolutionary” battery problems, volume issues, and glaring deficiency in capabilities – no flash/to-do-list/copy+paste functions/outdated slow data system-no 3G/lack of MMS messaging, etc.
This will only be re-enforced by the mass recall because of the battery and speaker defects that Apple’s shoddy QA didn’t detect. Short the stock!
Truthbearer = MS employee running scared for his job.
pooloo.
I’ve been using computers since the 70’s (IBM 360 Series…look it up) and have used every kind of system you can likely name in the interim. The truth is that the Macintosh ecosystem is more secure, and of higher quality than any system I’ve ever used. I’ve also been a writer, photographer, music producer, and communications expert over the last 30 plus years and it’s clear that those who choose to post ignorance do so hoping to be slapped down.
Consider yourself slapped.
Battery problems (which your ‘iphone specialists’ who you quoted in a previous post on another thread didn’t seem to mention)? Volume issues? Bor-ing! You seem to have a lot of spare time on your hands – can’t you use your awesome intellectual powers to come up with some new iphone defects? No flash / to-do list / copy & paste functions etc – these are nothing; they’re beneath you! C’mon – let your imagination soar!
Apparently, the NSA has a billion dollar computer that can break 1024-bit encryption in a few minutes. For the rest of us it will take a couple of hundred years and a 10 million dollar super computer.
I guess a few Apple employees could be bribed to get the key, but it still would take more money than a highly caffeinated hacker would possibly have in his jeans.
In other words, the iPhone will not be hacked any time soon.
It’ll be eventually cracked. I just find it fairly humorous. I mean, didn’t they say they’d have it cracked within a week? Maybe EVERYONE should just reserve judgement when it comes to Apple until they’ve actually done the deed.
Methinks they had a bit o’ the big head after the AppleTV experience.
AT&T are not the only GSM provider. In Canada, Rogers and Fido (owned by Rogers) use GSM, and so does T-Mobile in the US.
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This is true. But in Canada, Fido exists only in a few major centres (virtually no rural coverage) while Rogers is extensive in Ontario and Quebec, outside of these areas, it totally blows dog. I understand that T-Mobile’s coverage in the US is fairly small, as well.
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pooloo.
I’ve been using computers since the 70’s (IBM 360 Series…look it up) and have used every kind of system you can likely name in the interim. The truth is that the Macintosh ecosystem is more secure, and of higher quality than any system I’ve ever used. I’ve also been a writer, photographer, music producer, and communications expert over the last 30 plus years and it’s clear that those who choose to post ignorance do so hoping to be slapped down.
Consider yourself slapped.
ROTFL! You still haven’t read Petey’s post, have you? (hint: he has “RE” in the beginning, and read Zune Tang’s post 5 posts above his, looks the same, hmmm..). It just gets better and better!
How is it possible that nobody here is aware that AT&T will allow unlocking in a few months? If I remember well, there is a law in the US that requires carriers to provide their consumers with instructions on unlocking the phones. I have done it at least five times, with different phones (Nokia, Samsung, S-E), both on T-Mobile and Cingular. Apparently, judging by the lack of knowledge of the fact on this forum, this is a well-kept secret in the cellphone industry.
If you’re on Cingular (AT&T) or T-Mobile (formerly Voicestream, Omnipoint), call them up and ask for the code.
If you have an iPhone, you’ll probably have to wait for three months after your purchase; that seems to be standard policy for all phones (not just the iPhone).
@Zune Tang
“… I bet if I gave a crap I could get into the iPhone. …”
Yeah, Zune Tang, you don’t give a crap. That’s why you lurk on these Mac forums, trolling, and studying the cool Apple products and these comments, subconciously wishing you were deep into good technology instead of hopelessly invested in crap-for-the-lowest-common-denominator.
It’s obvious by your actions ( posting here) that you don’t “give a crap”, that you don’t care anything about Apple or especially the iPhone.
You’re putting on a brave face.
It’s okay. We understand the pain inside you that drives your drivel.
You’ll be okay eventually, and we’ll be here for you.
“How is it possible that nobody here is aware that AT&T will allow unlocking in a few months? If I remember well, there is a law in the US that requires carriers to provide their consumers with instructions on unlocking the phones.”
How is it possible that you could be so COMPLETELY clueless yet desire to speak with authority? I’d post the link here as to what the law REALLY says, but I reckon it’s about time you learned to use Google before posting.