New iOS 4.1 Jailbreak Discovered: Will Be Hard For Apple To Fight

[farbod21]

New iOS 4.1 Jailbreak Discovered: Will Be Hard For Apple To Fight | Cult of Mac

Just as Apple has released the iOS 4.1 update, iPhone hackers have found a new way to jailbreak the latest iOS that will be hard for Apple to patch.

The Dev-Team?s Musclenerd says his fellow hacker pod2g has found a boot ROM exploit in the iOS 4.1 as it goes live. Musclenerd advises iPhone users to stay away from the 4.1 update until work on the latest jailbreak is completed.

?Crazy timing that @pod2g got latest exploit just as 4.1 went public (lots of work left?keep away from 4.1 for now!)? Musclenerd tweeted.

A low-level bootrom exploit will be hard for Apple to fight. Boot ROM exploits cannot be patched with a firmware update the way that Apple closed the PDF security hole that the iOS 4.0 JailbreakMe exploit relied on.

Apple would have to make changes to the hardware of its iOS devices to fix the exploit. Previously, pod2g discovered the 24kpwn exploit, which allows older iOS devices to be jailbroken via PwnageTool, but has been patched by Apple in its latests devices.

 

[BLiNK]

this is very good news

 

[macharborguy]

I wonder if it will be made available before next weekend. I would love to have a 4.1 jailbroken iPhone 4 when I go on a short road trip. Both HDR Camera app AND MyWi would be nice.

 

[farbod21]

confirmed to work on iPad and Ipod Touch 4G

 

[websyndicate]

I wonder if it will be made available before next weekend. I would love to have a 4.1 jailbroken iPhone 4 when I go on a short road trip. Both HDR Camera app AND MyWi would be nice.

Only time will tell.

 

[Miggs2002]

looking forward to this being available soon, i'm gonna be checking the relevant places religiously lol

*edit*
the dev team blog is down, anybody know why?
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**edit**
all is good again, just a brief spell of downtime

 

[servanthands]

looking forward to this being available soon, i'm gonna be checking the relevant places religiously lol

*edit*
the dev team blog is down, anybody know why?
click

**edit**
all is good again, just a brief spell of downtime

It is still showing that its down for me.

Now its up for me.

 

[white573]

Is this an exploit that will allow jb on new bootrom 3GS? Since they have patched the PDF loophole.if so that is awesome this would be the jb we all have been waiting for along time

 

[LazyStarGazer]

Is this an exploit that will allow jb on new bootrom 3GS? Since they have patched the PDF loophole.if so that is awesome this would be the jb we all have been waiting for along time

As I understand it, yes.
The dev team mentioned iOS 4.1
They didn't mention iP4 specifically.

 

[bergman]

Excellent! Keep up the great work DevTeam!