iPhone unlocked yet again by Israeli Hackers
August 28th, 2007 | by Gizmo |Three hackers named Dubbi, Ofir and Eli claim to have unlocked the iPhone independently in Israel. If confirmed, this would be the fifth time that someone has unlocked the iPhone with a different method. The three also say they hacked the iPhone’s user interface.
While there are no details except that they say that practically anyone could do the unlocking, the other news is that they claim to have activated a hebrew interface on it.
Of the previous techniques, three have been widely proven to work by independent parties: the forged SIM method, the Turbo SIM method and the hardware soldering solution. A fourth one, a pay software program by iPhone Sim Free, has only been tested by Engadget and has not been commercialized yet, neither it has reached other members of the press.
Another method, claimed by site “iPhone Unlocking”, has not been tested by anyone and can’t be included in this list. This site claims that AT&T has threatened with legal action and have delayed their operations indefinitely.
The three israeli hackers bought their machine without even thinking about unlocking them. They just wanted the device because it was cool, but then started to tinker with the unlocking until they succeeded, according to them.
We will have to wait until they release it publicly to see if this is true. For the time being, the only good unlocking method is the free software method, and that has yet to be released by the iPhone Dev Team. Until then, think about helping them with a few dollars or your programming talent.