The remarkable hacker NerveGas and the team at #iphone-shell have managed to find a way to get Dropbear SSH up and running on the iPhone through a bit of [command line trickery][1]. This means you can now install outside apps over SSH. NerveGas and others have already built Apache, Python and other open source apps for the iPhone.

As NerveGas writes, the hack 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."

Fully functional SSH is huge; it effectively means you can move any file or program and execute them via the command line. NerveGas and others have [posted some binaries][2] for python and apache and here's some direct links to various command lines tools you can install on your iPhone:

>*	<a  href="http://www.gofilego.com/?fileid=3aa438c5efeb84053fb9459c0d6a9cef150b1f08">grep</a>
*	<a  href="http://www.gofilego.com/?fileid=3a9debfbbad15a11c81f104f72a313b3cc4f229b">ed</a>
*	<a  href="http://www.gofilego.com/?fileid=27e881b1e21bb96003c2b3bf471c346bac7eacea">vim</a> 
*	<a  href="http://www.gofilego.com/?fileid=6492d1c9dac39bcdefd3ef399a5a0c93f2e4e197">curl</a> 
*	<a  href="http://www.gofilego.com/?fileid=a2a57740af72f7fed554e448c42ef4ae12615042">chmod</a> 
*	<a  href="http://www.gofilego.com/?fileid=0b0851de7d8109230acfa7a5bd1b17c297fec348">ps</a>
*	<a  href="http://www.gofilego.com/?fileid=98327f212e8d925e566d66ce96b1c1fabd868982">ifconfig</a>

*	<a  href="http://www.gofilego.com/?fileid=1c89f731a85fca21b5eb2ca36f3735c6f560cf04">netcat</a>


Perhaps the most interesting application of this newfound functionality is the installation of a new SOCKS server to tether your iPhone to your laptop. Now admittedly using EDGE to browse from a laptop is probably going to drive you to fits, but at least it's now possible to use your iPhone's network access via your computer.

Here's a video demonstration:

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And here's the tutorial on how to [get it working][3].

[1]: http://pastebin.com/m7abdb007
[2]: http://iphone.natetrue.com/
[3]: http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/tether-your-iphone