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INDEPENDENT MINDS. SHARED KNOWLEDGE.

Curiosity has
no warranty.

A community for people who take Apple technology apart, ask better questions, and share what they find.

Explore the research ↘Find us on GitHub ↗

REVERSE ENGINEERING / OPEN SOURCE / APPLE PLATFORMS

THE COMMON THREAD

For engineers who
color outside the lines.

01 / THE KNOWLEDGE BASE

READ. QUESTION. CONTRIBUTE.

Hard-won knowledge.
Out in the open.

Dig into Apple hardware, software, formats, and protocols. Apple Knowledge brings community research and machine-readable hardware data together in one open repository.

Explore Apple Knowledge ↗Open the documentation site ↗
01
HARDWARE & DATA

Start with the source.

Explore structured data and references for Apple hardware.

↗02
BINARY ANALYSIS

Understand the internals.

Find tools for inspecting and working with binaries.

↗03
CONTRIBUTING

Leave a trail for the next person.

Read the contribution guidance and share your findings.

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02 / THE WORKBENCH

All repositories ↗

Made to be
taken further.

Tools, experiments, and community forks.
Find something useful. Make it better.

TOOLING

Homebrew Jailbreak

A Homebrew tap for jailbreak and research tools.

homebrew-jailbreak↗
BINARY ANALYSIS

Mach-O tooling

Explore mootool, the community’s Ruby Mach-O tool.

mootool↗
EMULATION · FORK

QEMU for XNU

An integration fork focused on emulating XNU platforms.

qemu-xnu↗
PROTOCOL RESEARCH

Follow the USB traffic.

Tools for analyzing iDevice USB sessions.

demuxusb↗

03 / PEOPLE BEHIND THE PULL REQUESTS

Bring your curiosity.
Find your people.

Hack Different is a community built around Apple reverse engineering, security, and jailbreak research. Meet people asking the same questions—and a few you haven’t thought of yet.

Join us on Discord ↗Connect GitHub & Discord →
  1. 01

    Get your bearings.

    Read the community guide. This is a place for research and discussion, rather than jailbreak customer support.

  2. 02

    Show what you’re working on.

    Bring a question, an observation, or a reproducible finding. Give others enough context to explore with you.

  3. 03

    Make the knowledge better.

    Improve a write-up, investigate an issue, or contribute code. Start with the relevant repository’s guidance.

Before you join: the community ground rules

Be considerate and keep discussion constructive. Don’t request release dates, jailbreak customer support, or iCloud lock bypasses. Illegal material is prohibited. Follow moderator instructions.

Read the full community rules ↗Connect your GitHub and Discord profiles ↗

THE NEXT DISCOVERY STARTS WITH A QUESTION.

What’s underneath?

Let’s find out. ↗