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Monday, July 16, 2007 |
No breakthrough in efforts to unlock the iPhone. (InfoWorld) - Hackers are working to unlock Apple's iPhone, but the job appears to be more difficult than initially expected.
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, according to an update released last week by hackers working together on the #iphone IRC (
[IDG InfoWorld]
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