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digg_url = \’http://digg.com/apple/The_story_behind_iUnlock_the_first_free_open_iPhone_SIM_unlock_software\’; If you’re like us, you’re furiously unlocking every iPhone in sight at the moment, but what you might not know is the story behind the hack. It all started Monday when iPhoneSIMfree was finally released. Hackers immediately bought up licenses and started looking into how the thing ticked, and found something rather surprising: the app flashes to the baseband chip — something the iPhone Dev Team had originally said couldn’t be done at all without hardware hackery, diverting effort away from such attempts.
But instead of just swiping the iPhone Dev Team’s method, hackers started looking for different ways to achieve the same results now they knew a baseband flash could be done, and a certain Zappaz finally struck gold after working on it all Monday night and well into Tuesday. But that was only the beginning.
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Original post by Paul Miller