Five Second iPhone Unlock On The Way

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While the iPhone Dev Team's Pwnage tool has been taking all the recent credit for iPhone formware 2.0 related unlocks it is easy to forget that King of the 1.1.x firmware was free app ZiPhone (v3.0 below) and its creator Zibri looks primed to show everyone once again who is boss...

Following more than a month of virtual silence the hacker - who has refused to get drawn into a race with the iPhone Dev Team - has posted news that a comprehensive unlocking tool of unprecedented speed is on the way.

In a post entitled 'Developing...' Zibri declared "Next generation of ZiPhone is in the works. It will be as simple as Apple would have done it. A simple one click program. A 5 seconds run. Stay tuned." This was then followed up by a cheeky post called "The egg of Columbus" (a reference to how obvious answers are once a person is shown - no doubt a dig at his detractors) in which he proclaimed "sometimes the best solution is the simpler. Stay tuned."

Of course should anyone but a hacker with a proven history make such claims we'd be struggling to catch our breath for laughter but given most of us at TR have run ZiPhone in the past without the slightest hitch we must admit we're extremely curious about what looks set to emerge. Furthermore, should the next version of ZiPhone prove as simple and fast as suggested Apple may once again have a real fight on its hands with the unlocking crowd - subsidies or not.

Of course we love seeing the cat set loose amongst the pigeons (especially with open source platform Android around the corner) so let's hope this one works out...

Link:
Egg of Columbus Post
ZiPhone Walkthrough Video

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