The Apple Wiki:Constitution

Why do we need a wiki?

Have you been on the hackint0sh forums? Have you been on the dev team's wiki? Have you been to the dev team's blog? Have you been on geohot's blog? Have you been on iphone-elite's website?

Everywhere is an incomplete resource that doesn't give the whole picture. We need a complete resource. Dev used to have an editable wiki that anyone was supposed to be allowed to get an account on. A snapshot of that wiki is available here. GJ, who is long forgotten in the iPhone community used to do a great job updating it. Then dev told him he couldn't post what was said in IRC on the wiki, because it was dev team "secrets". He quit. After I was asked to leave dev, my account was banned. Why? I wasn't going to deface the wiki. Maybe I'd even post some information. But dev was dev. (Dev *was* dev. Dev has changed in a year). That wiki fell into a state of disrepair, until the hosting finally went down.

After that, many sites posted information on the iPhone. Iphone-elite was originated by zibri and tiven when zibri was ejected from dev for first time due to internal circumstances. But iphone-elite had an editable wiki that attracted contributors like chris_, Fred, Turbo, MuscleNerd, and an elusive ghost_000. After a few tits and tats including virginator tool, elite joined with dev in a happy world. Then Zibri "happened", and he exposed several exploits yet to be unleashed (for Apple to then fix). JerrySim and ramdisk all exposed at once. The few people who knew anything in elite kicked out zibri and joined dev. Dev posted a "wiki", but one in which they are the sole editors of. That's not actually a wiki, and it has since day one been described as an "official portal" of dev info. Also, the selective membership stops the spamming which ruined fiveforty.

I haven't had the time I'd had to work on the iPhone, and I don't forsee time being available in the near future. So I'll take this weekend to dump my brain, and the scattered resources around the net, into this wiki. I hope this can be a neutral source for publishing information. Everyone can edit, all I ask is you sign up for an account to attempt to keep the spammers out. This site costs me $100 a year to run; paid for by the ads on my blog. So no donation links or ads will ever appear here. And try to keep information here neutral, although if you added a big section, feel free to add your name.

With regards to "secret" information. If you have an exploit that could be used later and serves no purpose now, keep it secret. Same goes for if you have an exploit, but another serving the same purpose has already been found and released. Keep that to yourself for now. Everything else, explain it.

I see a real problem with the iPhone hacking community. Most of the knowledge about the iPhone is somewhere within the dev team. If the dev team disbands and even a minor update is made which breaks things, all we'll have is a couple closed source tools and random information scattered around the internet.

Let's document this device better than anyone at apple knows it.

Everybody is invited.