Unix hack brings Third Party Apps to iPhone

Hacker Nerve Gas and the hacker team at #iphone-shell have found a way to get "Dropbear SSH" running on the iPhone. With this hack you can now install real third party apps. Mr. Nerve Gas has already built Apache, Python and a bunch of other open source apps for the iPhone.

So how does it work? Nerve Gas states it works by:
“overwriting an existing binary on the system with chmod, and then calling it with the appropriate arguments to set permissions. The result is a fully functional SSH setup.”

What this means in laymans terms is that you can move over any program and execute it via the command line. While this is probably more for UNIX guys and gals, this could lead to really cool apps in the very, very near future!

Check out the load of binaries for the iPhone here.