Team Pangu Team published online an open letter to developers and owners of the iPhone and iPad. It hackers talked about working on the jailbreak for iOS and urged users to be more tolerant to the Chinese programmers.
The post is largely a response to criticism of hacker Stefan Esser, known under the nickname I0n1c. Last, speaking at a conference Syscan, called Pangu Team racists and people "with painful fantasies". iPhoneBul offers some abstracts of articles with comments hackers.
About a million dollars
At the time, rumors have attributed the sudden interest team Pangu Team to jailbreak desire to earn. The creators of the pirate store allegedly offered to prepare hackers exploit and pledged $ 1 million. Pangu deny it, they said, all they have received sponsorship funds are donations from the users themselves.
On the purchase of vulnerabilities
In the first version Pangu 7 in the list of vulnerabilities used to jailbreak was designated development Stefan Esser. With this Pangu not argue. But Esser then strongly protested and called the developers "thieves" . After that Pangu eliminate this vulnerability and has since been used exclusively own development. "We have the ability and all the necessary knowledge to find their own vulnerabilities and release the jailbreak tools" - write Pangu.
Pangu steal certificates
Rumors credited Pangu use of corporate certificates stolen them from other hackers. It developers responded that at their disposal only certificates that have expired. Sometimes certificates divided by its users. They are used in the preparation of the jailbreak.
The hidden code
The band members Pangu confirmed that uses a special technique to hide hacking techniques. During this third-party developers have criticized the hackers, calling this approach selfish. The Chinese say that it is done solely in order to complicate the understanding of the art Apple hacking techniques and problem vulnerabilities.
About Discrimination Chinese developers
"Yes, we are Chinese. We are grateful to the jailbreak community and are proud to be his full participants. We are honored that Pangu Pangu 7 and 8 have downloaded millions of people around the world. We hope that the jailbreak community will not judge about the developers on race, color or religion".
About Pangu Team plans to release a jailbreak for iOS 8.2 is not known. On Friday, another hacker team held a conference TaiG Mobile Security Summit , which is expected to exploit the presentation. However, hackers have limited themselves to describing techniques for breaking previous versions of iOS. According to unconfirmed information, the jailbreak for iOS 8.2 is scheduled for release in April this year.