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I'd love to see more about how to reverse engineer this information.

• bcherry 14y ago
  I think it's most likely this wasn't reverse engineered, but was somehow leaked by an engineer at Apple. But, if you wanted to try, you can open the simulator binary in a text editor (/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/iPhone Simulator.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhone Simulator) where you'll find a bunch of strings towards the bottom, including: * minVersion * capabilities * width * height * eagle * giraffe * forceEagle * forceGiraffe * canTether * homeOriginX * homeOriginY * homeOriginXHalfsize * homeOriginYHalfsize * productFamily * monkey * dogcow * squirrel I'm not sure how one would have known to look there, but once you do it's kind of obvious that eagle/giraffe are related to customizing some sort of width/height. Based on the other strings, they definitely belong in the .plist, so it's pretty straightforward to figure things out. I have no idea what squirrel, monkey, and dogcow are for.
• dcope 14y ago
  It's pretty simple with a disassembler. For instance... http://cl.ly/image/330V1S0y3i1S http://cl.ly/image/330V1S0y3i1S
  • Zev 14y ago
    A disassembler won't tell you that "giraffe" means "simulated device height"
    • seabee 14y ago
      You have to be creative - giraffes are tall, eagles have wide wingspans. I can only assume future iPhones gather nuts for winter hibernation.
    • dcope 14y ago
      Obviously not. It's up to the tinkerer to figure that out (which is clearly possible by tracing around). Again, this is pretty trivial with a disassembler such as Hopper that can generate pseudocode.
  • Scene_Cast2 14y ago
    What disassembler is this?
    • duskwuff 14y ago
      Hopper - http://www.hopperapp.com/ http://www.hopperapp.com/