After its commercial release, the iPhone Sim Free software unlock is now under heavy attack by hackers all over the world. Even DVD Jon is after them, according to sources deep in the effort. They are advancing at a fast pace and the crack may be ready as soon as tonight. However, not everyone is trying that route: part of the iPhone Dev Team is still independently working on their own unlock.

Live by the sword, die by the sword: they used their free tools to achieve the unlock and now is payback time. The hackers trying to crack the iPhone Sim Free solution are pushing forward furiously and they are now attacking on all fronts, from sniffing packets coming in and out the iPhone Sim Free unlocking server, to analyzing the software itself, which reportedly includes public BSD tools too.

However, part of the original iPhone Dev Team people — who created the tools that made possible for people like GeoHot and iPhone Sim Free to achieve their respective unlocks — are not working to crack the IPSF solution. Their objective is still to obtain the unlock independently and publish it as the true free software unlock.

These are the same guys who turned down a $100,000 offer from a commercial company to buy their research so, hats off to them for keeping their strong ethical principles right up to the very end. The exploding Death Star is for sure reserved for their unlock, not for anyone else.

Whatever comes first, the crack or the true software unlock, it looks like the iPhone Sim Free team and their resellers won’t have much time to get rich.

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