Apple Promotes QuickPwn Jailbreak Tool by Accident

Eagle-eyed Internet users have spotted a strange listing (to say the least) on Apple's official website, under webapps / games. Apple listed the iPhone Dev Team's QuickPwn jailbreak tool as a “game” under said webapps section, and then quickly removed the page. Luckily, those who spotted it have video proof of the blunder.

The image available to the left, courtesy of Cult of Mac, shows the iPhone Dev Team's QuickPwn being listed on Apple's site as a tool used “for fun games, iPhone and iPod touch news and important site updates.” Leaving aside that the description makes absolutely no sense, with or without the QuickPwn listing, the developing company is posted wrong as well.

As noted above, QuickPwn is the work of a bunch of code-savvy individuals known as the iPhone Dev Team and a certain “poorlad.” What's even more hilarious is that Apple is at its second jailbreak slip-up!

A recently published patent application by Apple for biometric security on iPhones included imagery of what seemed to be a jailbroken iPhone, showing the icons for Installer.app and the SMBPrefs jailbroken app. In accordance with Apple's interpretation of the DMCA, as it relates to Jailbreaking, using these applications on the iPhone is illegal. A legal representative from the EFF, going by the name of Fred von Lohmann, revealed in February that Apple had filed new comments with the Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA, stating that jailbreaking an iPhone or iPod constituted copyright infringement and a DMCA violation.

QuickPwn is a jailbreaking utility for iPhone and iPod Touch. QuickPwn is available on Windows and Mac, and works with 2.0 to 2.2.1 iPhone firmware. The Dev Team has also released Redsn0w a while back, an untethered patch for the second-gen iPod touch. The Team say they will be releasing Redsn0w when Apple publishes the new iPhone and iPod Touch 3.0 firmware.

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