[seann33uk]

iPhone Dev Team claims to be dismantled, Pwnage tool dead for good? Update: nope.

Posted Mar 31st 2008 7:09PM by Ryan Block
Filed under: Cellphones
April Fool's day joke? Could be, but we're hearing it might be real: the long standing bastions of iPhone hacking, the iPhone Dev Team, posted a note to their site stating that "[today] the DevTeam was approached by an unnamed party to sell all of the intellectual property and related applications. After much consideration [What, hours? -Ed.] the offer was accepted and the [Dev Team] has ceased." Seems a bit outlandish. For those not in the know, the Dev Team is the same group that posted jailbreaks to 2.0 (before it was out), 1.1.3, 1.1.1, developed the AnySIM unlock, and are thiiiis close to releasing the Pwnage tool (which promised total unsigned firmware control of the iPhone). So yeah, it may well be a prank, we wouldn't put it past them. Funny thing about the hacker community though, one goes down and 10 more spring up.

[Thanks Andrew, Erica]

Update: Yep, it's an April Fool's joke. We're just going to go offline until April 2nd, peace.

Tags: apple, dev team, DevTeam, hacks, iphone, pwnage, software

So see you all tomorrow with the pwnage software(hopefully.)
A few people-including me- have noticed no links to pages within the iphone-dev.com site work nor are there any google pages to any parts of the site.
I'm guessing that with the april fools they are building a new site or something for tomorrow(2nd)

[tommyb04]

I'd like to retract my outrageous statement and just emphasize that Edwin Donnelly is a bender.

[spongebobiwan]

hehehe...I hereby nominate this thread as the funniest and most fun thread of the year, and the Dev Team with the best prank of the year

[Poseidon79]

What does "npebea" mean? If you go back to the iphone-dev website there's now a picture of steve jobs saying that....

[Conn18]

It means "Gotcha" I think

[wPz]

it is a joke? god, pleaseeeee

[CodyR1951]

HAHA. that's funny. The only thing MORE funny is the people who actually fell for it!!

Originally Posted by Poseidon79

What does "npebea" mean? If you go back to the iphone-dev website there's now a picture of steve jobs saying that....

It's means "SURPRISE!"

[moontan]

HA!

[morphiusrt]

i've heard that apple has offered them alot of cash money to work for them i thought it was i lie when i heard it but than i saw this thread and it confirms it. all i can say is nooooooooooooo!!!

[IntenseMX]

ballin

[seann33uk]

Originally Posted by morphiusrt

i've heard that apple has offered them alot of cash money to work for them i thought it was i lie when i heard it but than i saw this thread and it confirms it. all i can say is nooooooooooooo!!!

and people still believe its true.
come on its april fools you fools

[morphiusrt]

but it was yesterday that it was announced that would break april fools day rules.

[andymuffins]

If it is true, then the DevTeam are tools. If it's not, then that is a very very very cruel joke DT.

[IntenseMX]

Originally Posted by Poseidon79

What does "npebea" mean? If you go back to the iphone-dev website there's now a picture of steve jobs saying that....

means hi in russian

[Broomhead]

Originally Posted by morphiusrt

but it was yesterday that it was announced that would break april fools day rules.

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