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Open source it when iPhone 2 comes out.

Please keep it CLOSED

Keep it closed mate.

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Total iPhones unlocked ---- 45 and counting....

Christmas is soon over and then it will be in Apples interest to boost sales - even to those people who dont use ATT.

Apple can effectively control when the iPhone will be hackable again as a higher version secpack is needed to update the current firmware. As soon as they release a new firmware the race to unlock the old firmware will be on. That might coincide with the release of the Apple SDK.

In order for the SDK to succeed Apple needs unlocked phones on the market with the new software version. Otherwise hackers in countries outside the US, UK, Germany and France will not bother to develop with the SDK.

Therefore it is in Apples and Anysim developers interest that anysim is open source so that the unlocking development proceeds as fast as possible once the new firmware and SDK is out.

On a sidenote: the bricking debacle with anysim 1.0.2 could probably have been avoided if the software had been opensource as more people would have had a chance to spot the causes of anysim. Quite ironically it was Apple who had to warn anysim 1.02 users that their phones would be bricked.

Apple/Infineon are in any case perfectly capable to see in a compiled code how anysim works and close buggy firmware code which is used by the exploits. So there is little benefit hiding the source code anyway.

Why would anyone be afraid that wanabee coder will screw things up .

People seem to confuse open source and installing a program not knowing where it's from.

Because a code is open source doesn't mean kiddies will screw things up.

It's like saying if linux was opened source people would genuinly damage the code or do bad things with it.

How ignorant are you ?

If you don't trust the binary source, don't download it. Only download the binaries from a reputable source, hopefully it will be digitally signed.

You can also open the source, but changes must be reviewed before being integrated in the trunk.

As for people thinking it would help Apple, they have a full department working on the iPhone with very highly experienced engineers. Whatever anySIM does open source or not, they will know how to counter it within hours anyhow

Jean-Yves

Well put, it's just a pitty that it won't be read/understood... I'm just sad to see in this kind of forums that 40% of the vote is for keeping the sources closed.

I would go further and document the way they decrypted the ramdisks, obtained the secpacks and so forth...

Not to mention that iUnlock, which is basically the core of the first AnySIM, is already open source

Keep it closed for the security of the community. Or only release to known members that are active and knowledgable in the communit. In the hands of everyone will inevitably create "Iphone Bricks" and forums flooded with questions on version 10929384092357204357 of anysim. Trust is a really hard thing to get and once broken... IMPOSSIBLE to regain. Do the community and your reputation a favor and keep it closed! Just my 2 cents.