iPhone SDK Key leaked? UPDATE: Nope
January 28th, 2008 | by Justin Nolan |It appears the iPhone SDK key has leaked, well before the SDK itself. Trusted iPhone Elite dev Zibri has posted the following image on his blog, with no further explanation:
The same key was also posted on this page of austinheap.com, with the title “BELIEVE IN iSDK.” Digg user “austinheap”, assumedly the owner of the site, was quick to post the story on the social bookmarking site with the description: “Somewhere in California Steve Jobs is killing someone with his bare hands. Immediate patch in expected via 1.1.4 before official iPhone SDK rollout.”
What transpires from this is yet to be seen. Gone unchecked, this could allow for unauthorized deployment of third party apps directly through iTunes, no more jailbreaking required. What is certain is apple has if not more moles working closely to the iPhone project. It was only last month the 1.1.3 firmware was leaked leaked weeks early to trusted members of the iPhone dev team, and no doubt attributed to the speediness of the 1.1.3 jailbreak. The originating 1.1.3 jailbreak method remains a close guarded secret amoung dev team members, so should a 1.1.4 update roll out before the SDK, a corresponding jailbreak is likely to follow.
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