User:planetbeing

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

Achievements

• 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
• 12 October 2007 -- planetbeing releases touchFree, the first automated iPod touch jailbreak.
• 10 March 2009 -- Contributed in the release of the iPod touch 2G untethered jailbreak in response to the NitroKey leak
• 3 August 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
• "Signal" app in Cydia

External Links

• Twitter (@planetbeing)
• Facebook
• Youtube: TWiA Episode 17 with David Wang
• GitHub