Pwnage 2.0: First Look
by Eric March on July 20, 2008 at 1:29 am
Those of you who are waiting eagerly for the Dev Team’s all-singing, all-dancing roll-your-own-firmware has been released — kinda. In its present incarnation, it’s still very much for hardcore hackers only, and doesn’t yet play nice with the one-touch hack crowd. It is advised that if you want the so-easy-a-caveman-can-do-it version, give it another week for the Dev Team to polish and spit-shine Pwnage 2.0 before you go ahead and grab it.
For the more intrepid Magellans among you however, TUAW has some preliminary first-look details for you with their very first two-point-pwned device. Naturally, it will jailbreak any iPhone or Touch on the market right now, but as we’ve reported earlier, 3G unlocking is still in the realm of the theoretical right now. First-gen iPhone owners, including those who upgraded to firmware 2.0, can still unlock and activate though.
In brief, it seems to work well, and application launching does seem to be a little snappier, but command line operation appears to bog down somewhat. Cydia works solidly, as does OpenSSH, and overall it worked pretty well. No word yet on if it interferes with App Store purchases, but I’m betting they get along just fine.
For a second opinion, C-Net Thailand’s Jesada Chandraprasert has also given his first-timer experience with the new Pwnage 2.0, just so you can get some idea of what you’re in for if you decide you absolutely must dive right in.
If you’re up for some adventure, you can give the new Pwnage tool a try here. For the rest of you who’d rather wait for a full-on release with trumpet fanfare and all, give it another week or so and your patience will surely be rewarded. Oh, and of course, it’s Mac-only right now. I’m sure WinPwn will be along some time after the full release.
(via TUAW)
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