iPhone hacked for shell access

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Kichigai Mentat @ Jul 7th 2007 11:28AM

I don't think you quite understand what shell access means. First off, that's an edited picture I'm going to guess, since the article talks about the use of a serial connection.

Second, shell access is the ULTIMATE hack. In a UNIX system, EVERYTHING goes through the command line. Everything from The Finder to Quartz to Photoshop is invoked via the CLI, your GUI is just a way to make it pretty. Now that we have shell access, you can edit system files (like the kind that lock us out) to allow you to do nearly anything with your phone.

Maybe once the iPhone is completely hacked, I might actually be interested in it, because if I can trick mine out, whip up a document editor, get some MMS and maybe some video going on, I'll be interested. Especially if it does WPA Enterprise.

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