If it's a secure network -- these are listed with a padlock icon -- the Touch will prompt you for a password. This will be one keys listed on your router's wireless configuration pages.
The hack we're demonstrating here only works on Touches running the 1. If you're using a later version, read the next section to see how you can restore your firmware.
Downgrade to 1. Keep in mind that by doing this you'll wipe all the existing data on your iPod -- photos, videos, music, bookmarks, contacts, etc. Firstly, you'll need to find out whether you've got a copy of the 1. If you can't find, you'll need to search for it on the Internet. Once you've located your copy of the 1. When iTunes starts up, click on your iPod Touch under the Devices tab along the left-hand side, and then hold down the Shift key or the Option key for Mac users while clicking on the Restore button.
Navigate to where your firmware is stored and click OK. Within about five minutes you'll have a clean iPod running the 1. Once your Touch has been hacked you can download apps, games and utilities. You can even skin the interface to your liking. Hacking the Touch Now this is the easy part. And Gizmodo is all over it, with an in-depth guide on exactly how to do it. Some of you may be hacking novices such as myself. You may ask: what exactly is jailbreaking?
Well, when you buy a product from Apple, you are bound by Apple-approved apps only. So, what exactly can you do about it? Gizmodo says:. In technical terms, to jailbreak is to enable a device to run code, meaning programs or system modifications, that hasn't been sanctioned by Apple. Its roots reach back to a time when there were no apps for iPhone OS, and a clever group of hackers zeroed in on some exploits gave people their first way to install apps on their devices, by way of an underground App Store called Installer.
It used to be that you could hack your device simply by visiting a webpage. That was two years ago. Since then, the iPhone and iPod Touch have been given a legit App Store, Apple has closed one security hole after another, and jailbreaking has become alternately more and less difficult, depending which device and software version you have.
Luckily, Spirit puts an end to all these troubles. Here's how to do it, courtesy of Gizmodo :. From a social engineering perspective, the iPod Touch looks just like the iPhone; if I walk into a building and start conducting an attack, people [will] simply assume I am texting, listening to music, or something just as innocent.
Public opinions surrounding a laptop may not always be as positive, depending on the location. Thomas Wilhelm is an associate professor at Colorado Technical University, teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Wilhelm is also employed at a Fortune 20 company, performing penetration testing and risk assessments, and has spent over 15 years in the Information Systems field.
Paul Mah is a writer and blogger who lives in Singapore, where he has worked for a number of years in various capacities within the IT industry. Paul enjoys tinkering with tech gadgets, smartphones, and networking devices. Feel free to post your comments and thoughts in the discussion area below.
Q: The mainstream news reports of your demonstration do not elaborate on the steps to break in to a wireless network using the iPod Touch. What are they, and what applications did you use to achieve it? Wilhelm : Unfortunately, the iPod Touch wireless chip cannot be put into promiscuous mode yet, so attacks against WEP and WPA are not possible with the Touch, unless you simply try to brute force the password during the initial connection request.
However, if the Touch can connect to a network that requires the user to sign up for connectivity to the Internet, such as those found in coffee shops, airports, or hotels, the Touch can spoof its Media Access Control MAC address to be the same as a valid user on the network or worse -- the network gateway.
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