Update on Changing your iPhone’s Root Password

Posted by Chris Leckness on Nov 11, 2009

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I posted a tutorial the other day, but with a second round of attacks surfacing today, I thought it was best to make this even more simple than it already is. This attack is targeting the same issue where the Root password is unchanged on a jailbroken iPhone, but this one is mining data unlike the “haha, you messed up, but I am not going to ruin you” approach that we saw already. So ya, get it done!

Here is a video detailing the on device method of changing the iPhone’s Root Password.

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Chris Leckness is the Owner/Administrator of Mobilitysite. He is a Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices and a member of the exclusive focus group, Mobius. Chris has been a big time supporter/user of Windows Mobile since the Dell Axim days when it was Pocket PC 2002. Chris loves Zune, but also owns 3 iPhones too. His personal blog is chris.leckness.com.

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