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4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2022-12-10 · latest 2025-06-05

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  1. …There are two main libraries, among others ipatool https://github.com/majd/ipatool/ and ipswm https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw/ , that are used to download the IPA files. ( https://github.com/majd/ipatool/issues/357 ). June 2025 update:…
  2. https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw/issues/668#issuecomment-290... I saw this hilarious exchange in one of the issues covering Apple’s recent changes that make it impossible to download IPA files. Recreating an iPhone’s authentication to…
    comment by ddxv · 2025-06-04 · in AI can't solve novel problems yet
  3. …a tool that loves to segfault, now we're trying this one and see if we have some better luck there: https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw It's a bit of a cat and mouse game still.
    comment by the_mitsuhiko · 2023-04-05 · in Introduction to Sentry Symbolicator
  4. …files inside. Apple changed the format of these this year so most of the tooling breaks on it, but https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw was able to decompress them. Then I loaded it in to Binary Ninja, which apparently doesn't support them…
    comment by saagarjha · 2022-12-10 · in I think I found a Mac kernel bug (2018)