Closed Phi1758 closed 5 years ago
Phi1758
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5 years ago If that's the case then why in the world does this program exist. There is no other reason for it and no other reason to go through the process of compiling all of those libs into a linux kernel. It makes no sense.
Phi1758
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5 years ago I don't believe that for a second. I know there has to be a way to root an icloud locked device but people are just too afraid to publish it or they are bought off by Apple in it's reward program offering large sums of money to report bugs. As far as moral issues are concerned if someone leaved a device in my place of business and I follow the more than fair policy that I implemented for lost and found property how is it immoral for me to want to use an iPhone from my lost and found after I had exhausted all routes that I could think of at the time to return it in good faith to the owner. An owner who most likely was intoxicated and forgot where they left it and their security is what prevented me from reading the email address and phone number to contact them in the event of their loosing it. I have returned many many smartphones over the years because I know how much it sucks to loose one and that it is the right thing to do. I could give examples of how I have gone way out of my way to return someone's phone at my expense but will spare you with one exception. I returned a phone that wasn't lost in my business when I was younger because it allowed me to open it right up and use it. I opened it up and looked through the contacts and saw one for "Mom and Dad" and called that number and told them that I had their sons phone and how he could reach me and he did. So there is no moral implication here as the device was reset by me with iTunes and wiped their personal data which had I not have done I could have cracked this phone easily with the information that I have learned from studying this project. And moral implications as far as they are concerned is the reason why I use Linux instead of Windows and especially Apple. They are the immoral companies. Jobs was a disgusting example of a human being. He and Woz just took a Unix/Linux Kernel and turned it into iOS and added the best encryption algorithms that money could by from the brightest minds that they could find and took all of the credit. Then they built the phones in the most environmentally unfriendly places on earth exploiting the lack of fair labor laws to cut costs on production and then sell them to Liberals at top dollar. So the way I see it the moral thing to do is for every hacker in the world should have at Apple and take a bite in anyway that they can. What about Apple support telling me to dispose of the phone. How ethical is that for the environment. It's brand new and could be used for years to come. We should be working on a way to take all brands of smart phones and convert them all into opensource driven phones. If I could wipe the iOS off of the phone and install Linux on it I would gladly do so. I could sell it for parts and use the money to buy a new Raspberry Pi or I could be a dick and sell it to some sucker on Ebay or other but I wouldn't do that to somebody. I'd gladly return it to the owner but Apple support made that perfectly clear that that was not going to happen. T-mobile as well. So what to do with it. I guess I will toss it in a box and save it for a few years until there is a use for it. Maybe use it as a print server or something down the road. But moral implications, please.
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ideviceactivate does not bypass iCloud lock. In fact, no program exists that can. Moral issues notwithstanding, the security is just too good.
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nikias
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5 years ago iCloud lock can't be bypassed through activation. It is not possible, period. Apple has a database that holds the iCloud lock state and theoretically Apple could remove it. But they don't because if they'd easily allow removing it, this theft protection feature would just be pointless. Apart from that, this library and tools exist to provide support for iDevices without the need for iTunes. That's the point of it (And they are not compiled "into the kernel". It's userland software, and compiling it is fairly easy). Also FYI Apple does not offer bounties for this kind of bugs, given they exist. In any case, please stop discussing iCloud bypass related topics here. This is a bug tracker for the library.
nikias
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5 years ago @parrotgeek1 the actual issue with error about IMSI is still valid though. It should try to request an activation ticket even if it will end up in an activation lock form response.
Phi1758
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5 years ago Any idea why ideviceinfo has no issues returning the IMSI but ideviceactivate will not without the lockdownd error? Same thing with Activationinfo?
nikias
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5 years ago I fixed it. The problem is lockdownd just doesn't want to return that info whenever you directly query that particular key(s). I changed it so that ideviceactivation will now query all the keys at once (like ideviceinfo does) and extract the desired information from there. This is all legacy mode though, newer devices are using the new mobileactivation service now. Still nice to see this fixed I guess ;)
ideviceactivation activate --debug idevice_activation_request_new_from_lockdownd: Unable to get IMSI from lockdownd idevice_activation_request_new_from_lockdownd: Unable to get ActivationInfo from lockdownd Failed to create activation request.
I don't know what I am doing wrong here. I can use ifuse and ideviceinfo just fine but ideviceactivate activate will not work. Is there a way to get root access to this device. It was left in my taxi cab three years ago and sat in the glove box for a year with no luck finding the owner. Apple told me that the owner had a new phone for a long time already and that I should just dispose of the phone at this point. Being that I am disabled and my android recently broke I could use a phone so why through this one away. I can't get past the icloud lock or else I wouldn't be having any issues at all. But here I stand not being able to $ifuse --root or $ideviceactivate activate without getting some sort of lockdownd error. Please help me.