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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/




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.


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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