iPhone Hacks · Hacks, Cracks, Mods, Homebrew, Utilities

Quite the breakthrough this morning… Just waking up to see that the iPhone Dev team; the very talented crew behind all the effort in tearing apart & unlocking this device, have discovered a method in activating existing AT&T / Cingular SIM cards without signing a new contract. The tool used is iASign, and well, it does just as I mentioned above by generating an activation plist given a private RSA key.

So, as many people already noticed, using iASign, you’ll be able to activate existing AT&T and Cingular Sims without signing a new contract. We think it should work with virtual AT&T operators as well (i.e. the ones using the same network code), but we couldn’t find someone to actually confirm it yet. You can get a list of those virtual operators at http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/usa.html. Please note that TracFone and Net10 won’t work due to some technical details. If anyone could try it out on one of those prepaid cards, that would be great.

By the way, for those of you looking for this “DeviceID”, on a Mac (so on _your computer_) it’s the name of the .plist file in ~/Library/lockdown. We’ll probably release a more automated tool later, once we find some time for those tasks.

As requested, we won’t link directly to the iPhone Dev Wiki, but if you wish to receive all the latest up-to-date news, you can find the crew on IRC — #iphone @ irc.osx86.hu.

Download: iASign (see README — it’s important!)