Apple tweaking iTunes to bork jailbreaking?

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited November 2008 in Science & Tech
Gizmodo is reporting that the new aluminum MacBook units are shipping with a custom build of iTunes that stops jailbreaking dead in its tracks.

The report alleges that the new build does not recognize an iPhone booted into the recovery mode required for jailbreaking.

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  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited November 2008
    -sigh-
  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2008
    I'm going to agree with one of the comments on this one...
    Gogo blog hype. "Hey, did you hear people are having problems running this hack on these new machines?" "Yeah. Quick, lets spin it so it seems intentional, even though the machines use a chipset from a different vendor, a unique build of OS X, and noone has confirmed the exact problem.!"


    Seriously. I'm guessing the Pwnage tool probably looks for something specific USB wise to talk to the phone under OS X, and can't find it on these new systems because they no longer use an Intel chipset and USB interface.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited November 2008
    It's not that the Pwnage tool doesn't know where to look, it's that iTunes won't even recognize a device in recovery mode. You can't look for something that, to the host machine, doesn't exist, now can you?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2008
    The comment doesn't really get what's going on.
  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2008
    I wasn't mostly talking about the over speculation.

    I find it hard to believe Apple released a "special" version of iTunes on their new Macbooks just to thwart jailbreaking.

    Then again, stranger things have happened :ninja:
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