User:Planetbeing

Planetbeing, whose real name is Yiduo David Wang, from Portland, Oregon, is one of the "core" iPhone Dev Team members. In contrast to MuscleNerd, planetbeing was mainly focused on jailbreaking in the early days.

Achievements and references in this wiki

• Speaker at the 25C3 presentation "Hacking the iPhone"
• He maintains XPwn (used in WinPwn and sn0wbreeze frontends).
• Member of the iPhone Dev Team
• "Associate" of the Chronic Dev (team)
• Mknod jailbreak in iOS 1.1.2
• 0x24000 Segment Overflow
• October 12, 2007 -- planetbeing releases touchFree, the first automated iPod touch jailbreak.
• March 10, 2009 -- Contributed in the release of the iPod touch 2G untethered jailbreak in response to the NitroKey leak
• August 3, 2010 -- ultrasn0w release for the iPhone 4. See also X-Gold 618 Unlock.
• iRecovery
• BootNeuter
• LibTiff (see also JailbreakMe and AppSnapp)
• Project leader in iPhoneLinux

Links

• planetbeing on Twitter
• Facebook
• Youtube: TWiA Episode 17 with David Wang
• GitHub