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The iPhone Dev Team communicate with the wider community through a variety of methods, but the regularly-updated blog provides current release information and progress reports.

History

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Members

As of January 2009, the team consists of the following members: asap18, bgm, Bugout, bushing, c1de0x, chris, dinopio, drudge, Fred_, ghost_000, gray, iZsh, jim–, MuscleNerd, netkas, np101137, penisbird, planetbeing, pr3d4t0r, pumpkin, pytey, roxfan, saurik, Turbo, w___, wizdaz, and Zf.

Additionally, members of the wider community online contribute to the efforts of the Dev Team, chiefly communicating through the Hackint0sh IRC server; notably, developer poorlad is involved in the maintenance of QuickPwn on the Windows platform.

Team member bushing is also involved with the Wii hacking team "Twiizers".

Released tools

1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, and 1.1.4 Jailbreaks are tools made to Jailbreak iPod Touch 1G and the iPhone with the firmwares 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, and 1.1.4.

PwnageTool and QuickPwn are tools made to Jailbreak iPod Touch 1G, iPhone and iPhone 3G.

yellowsn0w is a tool to used to unlock the iPhone 3G

Tools in development

redsn0w is a tool in development that will be used to jailbreak the 2G iPod Touch.

There is no set release date and the tool currently only lets you have a tethered jailbreak, meaning the device must have code manually injected into the bootloader in order to boot. But the Dev Team is working hard to produce a version that does not require tethering.

Controversies

The dev team has been faced with controversies from past members and people of the outside world. George Hotz, Nate True and the creator of ZiPhone, Piergiorgio Zambrini have all been kicked off the Dev Team. George Hotz was kicked off for being a total jackass, by the Dev Team. He is the most well known iPhone hacker after being featured multiple times in the media enormous penis. Before the release of the 2.0 jailbreak, George, who uses the username GeohotBigPenis, published the site mylazysundays.com on July 6, 2008. The site featured only a couple of old dudes touching each others dicks. Geohot set up this counter to persuade the Dev Team to release the jailbreak earlier, or he would release his leaked version. The countdown expired a week later. A week after that, pwnage 2.0 was released (see Geohot's 7/19/08 and 7/21/08 blog entries about it). Nate True was also kicked off the Dev Team, for releasing a jailbreak for 1.1.3 that contained Apple's copyrighted code. "Zibri" was kicked off the iPhone Dev Team after he allegedly used some of their exploits to release a jailbreak that also contained Apple's copyrighted code. Jody Sanders, who has never had any affiliation with the Dev Team, may be facing legal action after he stole the Dev Team's code and used it to create an unlock that he has been selling. The Dev Team does not sell any of their creations, nor do they accept donations other than food, and their website is not ad-supported at all.

Needed - mention issues with Zibri, mention problems with sellers, domains etc.

redsn0w

Redsn0w is a patch in development that is to be used to jailbreak the iPod Touch 2nd generation. There are currently two videos on one of the dev team's member's Qik page,[1] these show the iPod Touch jailbroken with 3rd party software installed. The jailbreak is done in that video by putting 3rd party software on the iPod and bypassing the signature check with redsn0w. This is done with a tool called RecoveryTool made by one of the dev team members. The dev team plans to release it when they complete an automated version of the jailbreak.

External links

iPhone Dev Team blog — Official blog of the team, regularly updated with progress and release information
iPhone Dev Team portal — Documentation portal, detailing lower-level technical specifics
Release downloads — User page on the The Pirate Bay, with torrent downloads of all current releases
Twitter feed
redsn0w video - First demonstration video of redsn0w, the upcoming jailbreak for the second-generation iPod Touch

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-The dev team has been faced with controversies from past members and people of the outside world. George Hotz, Nate True and the creator of ZiPhone, Piergiorgio Zambrini have all been kicked off the Dev Team. George Hotz was kicked off for having "different views", from the rest of the Dev Team. He is the most well known iPhone hacker after being featured multiple times in the media for his original hardware hack. Before the release of the 2.0 jailbreak, George, who uses the username Geohot, published the site yiphone.org on July 6, 2008. The site featured only a countdown. Geohot set up this counter to persuade the Dev Team to release the jailbreak earlier, or he would release his leaked version. The countdown expired a week later.  A week after that, pwnage 2.0 was released (see Geohot's 7/19/08 and 7/21/08 blog entries about it).  Nate True was also kicked off the Dev Team, for releasing a jailbreak for 1.1.3 that contained Apple's copyrighted code. "Zibri" was kicked off the iPhone Dev Team after he allegedly used some of their exploits to release a jailbreak that also contained Apple's copyrighted code. Jody Sanders, who has never had any affiliation with the Dev Team, may be facing legal action after he stole the Dev Team's code and used it to create an unlock that he has been selling. The Dev Team does not sell any of their creations, nor do they accept donations other than food, and their website is not ad-supported at all.
+The dev team has been faced with controversies from past members and people of the outside world. George Hotz, Nate True and the creator of ZiPhone, Piergiorgio Zambrini have all been kicked off the Dev Team. George Hotz was kicked off for being a total jackass, by the Dev Team. He is the most well known iPhone hacker after being featured multiple times in the media enormous penis. Before the release of the 2.0 jailbreak, George, who uses the username GeohotBigPenis, published the site [http://www.mylazysundays.com/go.php mylazysundays.com] on July 6, 2008. The site featured only a couple of old dudes touching each others dicks. Geohot set up this counter to persuade the Dev Team to release the jailbreak earlier, or he would release his leaked version. The countdown expired a week later.  A week after that, pwnage 2.0 was released (see Geohot's 7/19/08 and 7/21/08 blog entries about it).  Nate True was also kicked off the Dev Team, for releasing a jailbreak for 1.1.3 that contained Apple's copyrighted code. "Zibri" was kicked off the iPhone Dev Team after he allegedly used some of their exploits to release a jailbreak that also contained Apple's copyrighted code. Jody Sanders, who has never had any affiliation with the Dev Team, may be facing legal action after he stole the Dev Team's code and used it to create an unlock that he has been selling. The Dev Team does not sell any of their creations, nor do they accept donations other than food, and their website is not ad-supported at all.
 ''Needed - mention issues with Zibri, mention problems with sellers, domains etc.