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Xuzz
on April 6, 2011
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Writing code with MS Paint
More recently, the JailbreakMe iPhone jailbreak used the screen to store the kernel shellcode, since the framebuffer was in a known memory location in both the kernel and userland.
Here's a picture I found of it executing the screen:
http://img101.imageshack.us/i/ipts.jpg/
Hilyin
on April 6, 2011
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Wow, I jailbroke my iPhone and always wondered what that was. It was top most on the screen, I thought it was a bug. This is way cooler.
manfrin
on April 16, 2011
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Can anyone explain this in terms that a nonprogrammer like myself might understand? This sounds stupefyingly interesting, but I have no idea.
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Here's a picture I found of it executing the screen: http://img101.imageshack.us/i/ipts.jpg/