git clone git@github.com:comex/datautils0.git cd datautils0 git clone git@github.com:comex/data.git make NATIVE=1 ./make_kernel_patchfile /path/to/kernelcache /tmp/patchfile ./apply_patchfile /path/to/kernelcache /tmp/patchfile /output/patched/kernelcache Patchfile format: field length -------------------- namelen 4 name namelen addr 4 datalen 4 data datalen - If you're patching the kernel after it has already booted, you can (but need not) skip patches with names starting with "-". - apply_patchfile patches the kernel to start /sbin/lunchd instead of launchd. You can remove that, but the idea is that the filesystem looks like this: /sbin/launchd: untether exploit that execs /sbin/lunchd /sbin/lunchd: a script that execs /sbin/launchd.real with DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES set to the dylibs in /Library/LaunchExtensions; this may be used in the future by MobileSubstrate /sbin/launchd.real: the original /sbin/launchd This is the lunchd script: #!/bin/bash shopt -s nullglob dylibs=$(for dylib in /Library/LaunchExtensions/*.dylib; do echo -n "$dylib:"; done) export DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=${dylibs%:} exec -a /sbin/launchd /sbin/launchd.real