Breaking news! The T-Mobile G1 has been jailbroken! Wired “broke” the story here. I was briefly interested, if only because I wasn’t aware jailbreaking was needed on an Android device to get full local access, but apparently, the fact that you have to download and run a local terminal emulator on the handset means that only 1337 h4x0rrz should attempt this epic hack.
The gist? Run an instance of telnetd, then find out the phone’s WiFi IP address, and connect from your desktop machine. Good God, what will those crafty hackers think of next!
Seriously, though, I just love how this combines an obvious chain of Linux commands with a total lack of warning about the fact that this little root-shell backdoor is completely unprotected, and will in fact give everyone else on your wireless network the same superuser access to the phone that you just set up for yourself.
Want to give a recent G1 “jailbreaker” fits? Do a quick nmap scan for devices with port 22 open on the local coffee shop network, telnet in, and go nuts — restart core UI services, disable the cell modem, or stuff a bunch of porn in their personal image folder.
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