iTunes 8 pwnage countermeasures

[sadalius]

The iphone dev team says that the only way they can block current iphone/ipod pwning is by changing their hardware to fix the bug that they are exploiting. Well, now there is another way.

iTunes 8 now has enough intelligence to recognize whether or not a restore ipsw is legit or not. It also can tell if a connected device is running a legit firmware or not. Take a look at this pic:


The good news is that the hardware exploit still exists, even on the newly released devices. And that the dev team says they have already developed a patch for iTunes 8 MAC version so that it will work with jailbroken devices.

The bad news, if you really want to call it bad news, is that windows users will have to wait for the patch to be written for windows. Both windows and mac users will have to wait a little bit for the release.

You can read more about this development here.

[CoFree]

so
am i right in thinking.
that you just dont update your itunes to v8 and stay with a older one and you should be fine for awhile.
the older one should still load in about any firmware for doing a restore.right

[sadalius]

yup, your right. iTunes 7 will load any restore ipsw, but iTunes 8 won't. I tried it just a little while ago and it simply won't do it. I figure the patches will be release in couple weeks though.

[CoFree]

thats cool.
i have not been able to mess with anything lately.
but
im close to be done with it all and thing will get back to normal.

[sadalius]

Thats cool man, good to hear that your getting things sorted. My crap is just starting this coming week. I'm really hoping things turn out ok.

[BobSeager]

For windows users: the new Quickpwn will work with iTunes 8 and firmware 2.1

[CoFree]

sweet