“Apple has added a new wrinkle to its copyright infringement lawsuit against Florida-based Psystar. The Cupertino-based media company now claims the Mac clone-maker violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In a revised claim filed Nov. 26, Apple charged Psystar “has illegally circumvented Apple’s technological copyright-protection measures,” according to Computerworld. Apple also named 10 new unnamed defendants, listed only as John Doe 1 through 10.”

This questionable move might be aimed to indirectly accuse the OSX86 community in this DMCA suite. But there are many open questions like, how apple’s lawyer are trying to find their John Does, as most of the initial OSX86 developer are out of business for long times, or if they are just going to be replaced by some dummies for the show of it. Factly most of the OSX so called “copyright-protections” (erm, what is a copyright protection? The circle around the “c”? we think copy protections should be the right word) do not even exist. Other than that isn’t it malfunction that something just runs on one hardware and not on another? Not just cause OSX is majorly based upon BSD and Mach it is based upon FREE opensource work, which was NOT created by apple. Getting OSX to run on any Intel hardware, basicly just needs some adjustments (fixes) to the kernel, which is licensed under APSL for free modification by anyone who republishs the source. Modern methods do not even need this anymore as OSX is simply booted with a special crafted EFI, which gives OSX some Boot params which is a INTEL standarized work which later shall replace BIOS one day. Under this viewpoint, so what? What is Apple trying to enforce or sue here? Is it all theather?

Please don’t get me wrong I dislike Psycrap as much as Apple does (peopel who steal from a free community for commerce just suck), but some things Apple does in this suite go a step to far. Getting themself a wind up for their sales by thousends of switchers and geeks who got intrested in OSX, tolerating things until they were useful and striking it down afterwards is terrible bad idea.  So we are going to follow this case with intrest, either it will finally free the world of the misbelive OSX is just designed for macs or make this place a sad world for anyone who likes OSX as a operation system. Happily EFIX and other free and clean solutions still exist and ever will, which will make it much harder to claim DMCA violation for, if it’s not even impossible to do so.

If Apple is now going to attack the hacking scene, they will, soon or later, get the bill for sure. Never forget your roots. It’s still doubtful if you will ever see aanyone from the oldschool celebreties in court.

Devteam member planetbeing brings us for the first time ever linux on iPhone and first-gen iPods.

I’m pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple’s iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port, and many drivers are still missing, but it’s enough that a real alternative operating system is running on the iPhone. more…

Everything you need can be found on the linuxoniphone.blog and a demonstration video can be seen here: http://www.vimeo.com/2373142

Enjoy

The man from DelMonte - He say Yes!

1. GOLDEN RULE: If you have a 3G iPhone and want potential soft unlock in the near future do NOT use QuickPwn, and do not use the official ipsw or the iTunes update process without using PwnageTool.
   
2. Read item 1 again and again.
3. At the bottom of this post are the bittorrent files for the latest versions of PwnageTool and QuickPwn.
4. These are suitable for the recent 2.2 release.
5. Please read all parts of this post before downloading and using these tools.
6. The ‘late 2008’ MacBook/air/pro line of computers have an issue with DFU mode, it is possible to go from Pwned 2.1 -> 2.2 but going from stock to Pwned does not work, if in any doubt use a different machine.
   
7. Choosing the correct tool is crucial. Be warned!

Baseband 101

The ‘baseband’ is the generic name given to the internal components of the iPhone that handle the phone calls and Internet access. This ‘baseband’ is a tiny and unique independent computer system that runs inside your iPhone, it is separate to the main system that handles the applications (such as email and google maps) and it talks to the main part of the phone over an internal communications network. Think of it like a cable modem or other peripheral that is attached to your home PC that needs occasional updates. When a software update is released and presented to you within iTunes the baseband is sometimes updated (to fix bugs or add new features). The 2.2 update for the iPhone 3G contains such an update, so running the vanilla updater straight away with iTunes will reprogram and update the baseband. This could be bad for certain people, depending on your ultimate aim.

SIM Free/SP Unlocked/Factory Unlocked iPhone 3G

This applies if you bought your iPhone 3G for $$$$$$$. This model of iPhone 3G doesn’t have an Service Provider lock (aka factory unlocked) and you are able to put any SIM card into the phone and get service. Your phone is already unlocked so you do not need to worry about baseband updates, simply upgrade to 2.2 using iTunes and then use QuickPwn to Pwn and Jailbreak. This will add Cydia and Installer too.

Locked iPhone 3G - Preserve Baseband

This applies if you have a locked iPhone 3G and you wish to update to 2.2 but preserve the iPhone’s current baseband software. Preserving the baseband will give you the maximum chance for any upcoming software unlock. To upgrade your phone to 2.2 and preserve the state of the baseband you need to create a custom .ipsw with PwnageTool. This custom .ipsw will not contain the baseband update but of course will still allow all the cool new stuff from 2.2.

There are plenty of tutorials about this process on the web, but PwnageTool contains intuitive graphics and easy to follow prompts that should have you up and running in no time at all.

Locked iPhone 3G

If you are using your iPhone with one carrier and have no interest in the possibility of an iPhone 3G unlock in the near future then just restore or upgrade to 2.2 using iTunes and use QuickPwn to Jailbreak and add Cydia and Installer.

Locked iPhone 2G (1st Generation)

Restore your iPhone 2G with iTunes then run QuickPwn to do the magic, ‘nuff said.

iPod Touch 1G (Original iPod Touch)

Update to 2.2 with iTunes and run QuickPwn.

iPod Touch 2G (New iPod Touch)

Sorry, no support at this time.

Bittorrent Releases

• PwnageTool 2.2.1 for Mac OSX is here SHA1 Sum - 3a91f2bf4f342baaa700ae7d35959d7ade186134
• QuickPwn 2.2 for Mac OS X is here SHA1 Sum - 254b8af0e19870a4660b7b11e3b6f6ae1d6bc66f
• QuickPwn 2.2 for Windows is here SHA1 Sum - ffdbc561224c61ffc2713cb6a6e696b6d429c4ca

Information from:  http://blog.iphone-dev.org

We just wanted to inform our fellow readers that the hyped venezuelan 3G unlock is a bad joke, fake, troll attemp (or what your like to call it), don’t use any of the files in the archive, it might even contain malicious code.

Why it’s a bad fake?

The only way to break 3G is find a exploit which enables us to be able to write to baseband and alter it towards a unlock.

There was said you can install unlock via bootneuter. Bootneuter is designed for 2G baseband and it’s bootloader, it’s technical impossible to have it work on 3G. XGold != SGold2. Altering the baseband on 3G via bb bootloader (like our fellow neuter does) is not possible on a XGold chipset enabled phone like the 3G. They have a very secure and unbreakable way of updating, not even flashing routines are included within the baseband for security reasons.

Other than that, the included ipsw (made with pwnage) is even for a 2G phone, not a 3G .. complete techincal understandment fail.

That blog, which is spreading this news, is talking complete bullshit. Still we have no clue what the sense of this fake action is, other than trolling the hoping iphone community, but it might be even a bad attemp to spread malicious altered files. A investigation of this pile of crap for signs of evilness is still undergoing.

What this set of files is or should be, noone knows, but it is for sure no unlock. If you are really going to force stuff this in your 3G on some stange way (not thinkign you will ever suceed) you might be sitting there with a really fucked up device in the end. Please be cautionous with handeling these files, you have been warned.

Update: Seems The guy who made this fake is upset upon the early unmasing and likes to spam our comments with serval diffrent names in spanish and translate-english.  Please, at least change your IP before using other nicknames if trying to fool peple on a hacking board. If you try to play the Z game for the donation $$…YOU FAILED, hey he at least had something working, even if it was stolen. Please keep this in mind John, Alfonzo, Michael or what your name really is.

As promised Bigboss has released version 1.0 of SBSettings this weekend with two new themes

Quote:

SBSettings v1.0 is out. Make sure you get 1.0-3 (3rd repack). This release has the following features:

1) Brightness toggle
2) Themes
3) No longer launches at lock screen at all.
4) Home button can be used to close the window.

What did not make it: Application launch dock.  I have been testing most these features all week with success. Then I put out a version early Sunday and installed it on my other iPhone and it was doing nothing but crashing springboard.  Anyways, after a few hours more work, I decided to pull the dock out. It’s too problematic and I’m not sure why at this time plus Im too tired to worry about it. That will come back in later.

As for themes, I have added two themes to the main distribution: HUD and Tech Shadows. The rest I will package up as addons and release tonight.

One more thing: this version relies on toggle pack 1.3.1

Information taken from bigboss.org