Apple Data Formats and Knowledge

• macOS Internet Recovery

• iCloud Keychain (Umbrella for multiple formats)

System Configuration and State

• FDR - Factory Data Restore
• SysCfg - System Configuration - Serial Number and other Device Info
• APTicket - The root of an authorized version set

Diagnostic Protocols

• AWDD - Apple Wireless Diagnostics (misnomer, more than wireless, system trace)

• Mojo Serial

• Apple "tailspin"
• Apple tracev3 Unified Logging

• limera1n
• OpenJailbreak/greenpois0n
• 0x7ff/gaster
• axi0mX/ipwndfu
• dora2-iOS/ipwnder_lite
• LinusHenze/Fugu
• unc0ver
• Taurine
• Odyssey
• Chimera
• palera1n
• rootlessJB writeup
• evasi0n writeup by geohot
• Fugu14 writeup
• TaIG

• Chronic-Dev/syringe
• ProcursusTeam/Procursus
• comex/substitute
• sbingner/substitute
• Cydia
• ElleKit
• Zebra
• Sileo

• rickmark/isafety
• Mobile Verification Toolkit
• mvt-project/mvt

If you have issue with the design or workflow of this repository, blame me (rickmark) as I setup and configured most of it. (it me). If you have feedback, join the #apple-knowledge channel of the discord server.

Setting up overcommit, the linters, and the build

To keep the repo, docs, and data tidy, we use a tool called overcommit` to connect up the git hooks to a set of quality checks. The fastest way to get setup is to run the following to make sure you have all the tools:

brew install hunspell
gem install overcommit bundler
bundle install
overcommit --install

Why not \

Wiki's best serve prose, and part of the goal here is to leverage machine readable and ingestable information with human augmentation wherever possible.

As of 2022, GitHub has 56 million users. That means that there are 56 million people who are able to contribute directly to this repo via a fork and PR, in opposition to wiki's which have a relatively small number of potential editors. The PR process also allows for modifications to be reviewed, commented and debated before inclusion.

License

The contents of this repo are dual-licensed:

Code and data licensed under the MIT license

Documents also licensed under the CC-BY-SA

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Dedication

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers

the round pegs in the square holes…

the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules…

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because

they change things…

They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones,

we see genius,

because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world,

are the ones who do.

— Steve Jobs, 1997

Also dedicated to the volunteer work of those who use this for good, and deny the shadow to those who seek to harm.