Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon)
It has been only a week since the iPhone release date and there are already four proved-to-work solutions for this little problem:
- Activating an iPhone via AT&T Loophole
- Activating an iPhone using another iPhone
- Activation with a Pre-paid-Plan
- Activation via Jon Lech Johansen’s PAS (Phone Activation Server)
For those of you who have no idea who Jon Lech is, let me tell you that you are able to backup your DVD movies thanks to him, he was the only guy capable to decipher the content-scrambling system used for DVD… and he was only 17 at the time.
Now, some years after his great contribution to the community, he has managed to amaze us again… He Hacked the iPhone in only 4 days!
Activation via Jon Lech Johansen’s PAS (Phone Activation Server)
This method works by spoofing Apple’s activation server. It is unclear at this point if this method works in both the Windows XP and Windows Vista versions of iTunes, and no information in available on porting this method to OS X. Details here.
Instructions step by step:
1). Download UltraEdit-32, install it.
2). Download PhoneActivationServerV1.0, extract it to desktop or anywhere you want.
3). You might wanna backup the original iTunes.exe(located under C:\Program Files\iTunes) first.
4). Run UltraEdit-32, open file iTunes.exe, use Ctrl+G to go to address 2048912, then enter 33C0C3. Do the same for the rest two offsets: Go to address 257074 then enter 28 and go to 257013 then enter 33C9B1. Save the file and close UltraEdit-32.
5). Open Windows explorer and go to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc. Open the “hosts” file in ULTRAEDIT and add the line
127.0.0.1 albert.apple.com
to it. This will redirect any DNS query of “albert.apple.com” to your local host. Save & exit.
6). All you need to do is to run Phone Activation Server V1.0 first, leave it running and then run iTunes. Now when you plug in your iphone it will activate automatically in about 60 seconds.
I believe NASA, NSA, FBI, MICROSOFT, APLE, IBM and any other security or software compay should hire this guy to protect their information!
