📅 October 25, 2009

GeoHot: Blackra1n RC2 Available For Mac and Windows

GeoHot has just released a new version of blackra1n, the tool that allows you to jailbreak the latest firmware for both iPhone and iTouch. This is the RC2 which fixes several bugs:

GeoHot has just released a new version of blackra1n, the tool that allows you to jailbreak the latest firmware for both iPhone and iTouch. This is the RC2 which fixes several bugs:
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📅 October 14, 2009

Tethered Jailbreaks: History May Be Repeating Itself

Apple has started shipping devices with bootroms not vulnerable to previous exploits. So far, these devices include at least the iPod touch 3G.

Tethered jailbreaking is something that some (many) of you only find out when Blackra1n was released. The tethered jailbreak is quite inconvenient since,  every time you restart the device, you find yourself with an original iDevice! Cydia suddenly disappears and with it, all installed applications.

Apple has started shipping devices with bootroms not vulnerable to previous exploits. So far, these devices include at least the iPod touch 3G. They also likely include the new 8GB iPod touch 2G and very recent versions of the iPhone 3GS. For these devices, even though an iBoot exploit can make your filesystem jailbroken, the device itself is not bootable after that point without being “tethered” to something like a computer.

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