Nate True leaked iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak, kicked off iPhone Dev Team
By Will Park on Friday, January 25th, 2008 at 9:40 PM PST In Apple, Developer, iPhone, iPhone OS
All iPhone users waiting on a viable iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak method are incredibly indebted to Nate True’s for making the jailbreak solution available last night. But, it turns out that he did so at the cost of his membership in the inner-circles of iPhone hackers – the iPhone Dev Team has apparently kicked him out for releasing the jailbreak method against their wishes.
The jailbreak solution that was leaked last night uses “files belonging to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and patches which contain copyrighted information by Apple, making his personal release illegal and unethical,” according to Jonathan Zdziarski, an iPhone Dev Team member. Nate True apparently made little to no contribution to the actual jailbreak, simply observing the iPhone Dev Team’s breakthroughs. He then used that knowledge, combined with a bit of warez-ery, to craft the iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak.
Nate True’s use of copyrighted material makes his jailbreak method illegal. The iPhone Dev Team was waiting on releasing the iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak until they could devise a way to allow read/write access (jailbreak) to the iPhone without violating copyrights. They are still working on a legal jailbreak solution and should make it public as soon as the work as been completed.
The iPhone Dev Team is trying to distance themselves from Nate True’s work at this point. They don’t want the public to associate them with illegal hacks and unethical practices. Kudos to the iPhone Dev Team for working to bring us a legit iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak!
[Via: zdziarski]
“They don’t want the public to associate them with illegal hacks and unethical practices. Kudos to the iPhone Dev Team for working to bring us a legit iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak!”
Are you being sarcastic?
legit jailbreak? anyone looked up the word oxymoron?
A post on the person who leaked a jailbreak?? Oh its about the iphone so thats ok then;)
Will are you going to post some negative news about iphone sales or only the positive???
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/25/iphone_numbers_confusion/
don’t count on it chris p. there is always a positive spin to a negative istory.
is this nate guy a villain now? should the internet steer clear of him now?
Maybe the Dev Team made him angry and he wanted to get back at them
Maybe Apple got into twouble for having their cake and eating is too, with breaking the carrier- subsidies agreements in a.. vigorous.. attempt to make the phone more available? And this serves as a fine sacrifice to get them back out of a serious clash with the telecoms?
Nate is the man! The dev team are just pissed off because they didn’t release it first! And there’s no legal way to hack your iphone, just speak to apple and hear what they’ve got say about it.
Nobody really knows the truth about what happened btw the Dev team and Nate True, everybody is just making up shit as they go!