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A pre-boot execution environment for Apple boards built on top of checkra1n. Building on macOS Install Xcode + command-line utilities make clean all Building on Linux Download Sam Bingner’s iOS Toolchain Copy scripts/arm64-apple-ios12.0.0-clang to a directory in $PATH Adjust the TOOLCHAIN variable to point to the downloaded toolchain make clean all Contributions By […]
In order to root your smartphone or install a custom ROM, one of the first conditions that should be fulfilled is unlocking the bootloader. It’s an easy feat for a few smartphone brands such as Google Pixel or OnePlus but extremely difficult with others. Xiaomi tops that “extremely difficult” category. I still remember the time […]
Huawei recently added two new devices to its Mate series – Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro. The duo of the devices will ship without Google apps like Gmail, Google Maps, Search, and YouTube owing to the U.S. Commerce Department’s ban on Huawei. At the time of the launch, Huawei’s CEO Richard Yu said that […]
Framework for Digiduck Development Boards running ATTiny85 processors and micronucleus bootloader! Roadmap: Plan to implement a command for Duckyspark translation within the framework. Requirements: – ATTiny85 or other compatible “Digispark” Development Board(s) – DigiSpark Drivers (If you can use it with arduino you should be fine.) – OSX or MacOS – ArduinoIDE with Digispark Library […]
Just over a month after OnePlus was caught collecting personally identifiable information on its users, the Chinese smartphone company has been found leaving a backdoor on almost all OnePlus handsets. A Twitter user, who goes by the name “Elliot Anderson” (named after Mr. Robot’s main character), discovered a backdoor (an exploit) in all OnePlus devices […]
In this blog post I disclose two vulnerabilities in the OnePlus 3/3T bootloader. The first one, CVE-2017-5626, is a critical severity vulnerability affecting OxygenOS 3.2-4.0.1 (4.0.2 is patched). The vulnerability allows for a physical adversary (or one with ADB/fastboot access) to bypass the bootloader’s lock state, even when Allow OEM Unlocking is disabled, without user […]