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The iPhone/Touch TIFF exploit explained in the cold poetry of code

John Biggs
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
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Remember that weird TIFF exploit they used to get the iPhone/Touch to jailbreak itself? Neither do we. However, here is the source code for generating the improper and massive TIFF that is needed to get write access to your iPhone. If you go through the code you can see where the TIFF actually patches the filesystem to allow read/write access to the internal memory. Very cool.

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