In an interesting turn of events, iOS developer @skadz108, the same person who created the dirtyZero device customization toolbox based on Ian Beer’s CVE-2025-24203 security vulnerability, took to social media platform 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) on Thursday to share that they were working on a new project called Alpine.
Citing the posts, Alpine is not a jailbreak, nor is it a sideloading tool; it doesn’t even use an exploit. In fact, it’s hardly even anything interesting for the average user. On the other hand, it is a project the developer hopes they can get working in a jailed environment to run basic command line tools and an SSH server even on the latest devices running the latest firmware versions.
It’s worth noting that the project remains unfinished, so it’s very much a proof-of-concept at the moment and hasn’t even been officially realized. The developer is using this opportunity to learn more about developing on the platform, and while normal device users will probably never use the completed product, it’s possible that advanced users will.
In the splash screen that @skadz108 shared, we can gather that Alpine strives to achieve the following things:
– SSH and Terminal Access – Get a full shell environment and SSH server running locally on your iDevice, no jailbreak required
– Complete Toolkit – With the full Procursus binpack, all the essential tools are here. Experiment with familiar programs just as you would on a jailbroken device
– Free and Open-Source – Alphine is free and open-source software licensed under the MIT license. All source code is available on our GitHub for the community to improve and adapt.
Since the entire thing is pretty much a proof of concept at this time, it remains to be seen if the project will actually come to fruition or not. The developer is even on record stating that while they think the idea is possible and that someone may have already privately achieved this feat, they aren’t entirely sure if they’ll be able to figure out how to implement it yet.
Since this seems like an interesting, advanced tool for iPhone and iPad tinkerers, we will continue following the project to see if it makes any progress in development.
Would you be excited to see a project like Alpine available for iPhones and iPads? Let us know in the comments section down below.