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It sounds like Frida and Cycript have similar goals - REPL and other cool applications are planned and meant to be built on top of the core that is currently ex

by oleavr 13y ago

It sounds like Frida and Cycript have similar goals - REPL and other cool applications are planned and meant to be built on top of the core that is currently exposed to Python, .NET and a browser plugin (I built a cheesy WebGL network sniffeer running in the browser, the basic idea was to build an online collaborative reverse-engineering app where users with the plugin installed can live stream data and everybody collaborates on analyzing it online. Pure crack, I know, but I would personally love to have such a tool).

saurik 13y ago
On the topic of "in browser", Cycript is actually used by another project of mine called Cydget, which uses Substrate to modify WebKit running inside of SpringBoard to add support for type="text/cycript" script elements. Developers can then use Cycript's Objective-C syntax and FFI to interact directly with native iOS libraries from HTML pages that are rendered on the user's lock screen. (This project somewhat languished in popularity for a few years until a resurgence earlier this year when I started making a concerted effort on reddit to get theme artists to stop using WinterBoard, another project of mine, and instead switch to Cydget). (Neither WinterBoard nor Cydget are yet ported to iOS 7, but WinterBoard is just about done, at which point I start working on Cydget; the last weeks since evasi0n7's release have been quite hectic with porting ;P.) What I don't do is make it easy to inject from that process back into another one (which I can see being sort of interesting for visualizations).
- rismay 13y ago
  This is why I love HNs. Thanks for sharing! After reading about Frida and watching the Cycript video, I'm sort of ashamed of being amazed at Facebook's AST Lint rules they are building into Phabricator. Both are awesome, but these are like 10x more.

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It sounds like Frida and Cycript have similar goals - REPL and other cool applications are planned and meant to be built on top of the core that is currently ex

by oleavr 13y ago

saurik 13y ago
On the topic of "in browser", Cycript is actually used by another project of mine called Cydget, which uses Substrate to modify WebKit running inside of SpringBoard to add support for type="text/cycript" script elements. Developers can then use Cycript's Objective-C syntax and FFI to interact directly with native iOS libraries from HTML pages that are rendered on the user's lock screen. (This project somewhat languished in popularity for a few years until a resurgence earlier this year when I started making a concerted effort on reddit to get theme artists to stop using WinterBoard, another project of mine, and instead switch to Cydget). (Neither WinterBoard nor Cydget are yet ported to iOS 7, but WinterBoard is just about done, at which point I start working on Cydget; the last weeks since evasi0n7's release have been quite hectic with porting ;P.) What I don't do is make it easy to inject from that process back into another one (which I can see being sort of interesting for visualizations).
- rismay 13y ago
  This is why I love HNs. Thanks for sharing! After reading about Frida and watching the Cycript video, I'm sort of ashamed of being amazed at Facebook's AST Lint rules they are building into Phabricator. Both are awesome, but these are like 10x more.