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April Fool’s day joke? Could be, but we’re hearing it might be real: the faraway 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, certain, but 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 — we’re certain the iPhone Elite team is having quite a day.

[Thanks Andrew, Erica]

 

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Original post by Ryan Block