Chronic Dev Team has just published a blog post titled "Weapons of Mass Exploitation" in which they've given an update on the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 and also released a tool called C-Dev Reporter, which will enable iOS device users to send device crash reports to Chronic Dev team that could be helpful in finding new vulnerability in iOS.
Chronic Dev team have released greenpois0n, which was a popular jailbreak tool for iOS 4.2.1. Couple of months back they had announced that they had discovered 5 new vulnerabilities in iOS 5 beta and a recently a bug in iOS 5 that could help in developing an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.x.
Chronic Dev team has given the following update on the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5:
during my JailbreakCon talk in September, I was excited to announce that the Chronic Dev team had already discovered 5 different exploits for use in our upcoming jailbreak. Unfortunately, that announcement was a bit premature, because in the subsequent weeks, Apple found & patched a (critical) few of those exploits, between the beta versions we used for testing and the final release of iOS5 on October 12.
Sadly (and trust us, we are much more sad about this than any of you could possibly be), this has prevented us from being able to release a new jailbreak as quickly as we wanted to. As I hinted at earlier this week on Twitter, I was initially disheartened to think that so many of the countless hours we’ve worked on this jailbreak seemingly went right down the drain.
Not to mention, these are by no means the first exploits that have been “lost” by Chronic Dev (or any other iOS hacking teams) in this manner. In fact, these are just a few in a long-running series of exploits that were patched by Apple before we hackers could make use of them in a free jailbreak for you, our loyal fans.
Chronic Dev team goes on to explain the method Apple uses to find vulnerabilities:
One of the primary challenges in working with userland exploits is that, every time any program crashes on your iPhone, a “crash report” is generated and instantly sent back to Apple. As you can imagine, while we’re working out all the kinks in the exploitation of a vulnerability, we may need to crash any particular program thousands & thousands of times.
It’s possible to change your iTunes settings to stop sending this diagnostic information back to Apple, and of course everyone in Chronic Dev has made this change on all our development machines. However, even this is not always 100% effective at preventing Apple from obtaining our data. For instance, if one of us is at a friend’s house and plugs our iPhone up to his or her computer (even just to charge it), it’s very likely that computer is set up to send all our valuable data & crash reports right back to Apple.
Chronic Dev team have released a new tool called C-Dev Reporter, which uses a similar method to help find the vulnerabilities:
All this program requires from you is to attach your iOS device to your computer and click a single button!
At this point, the program copies all the crash reports off your device (which, under normal circumstances, would be sent right back to Apple), and instead sends this data to a secure, private server hosted by your friendly Chronic Dev team. Next, our program proceeds to neuter your copy of iTunes, simply by changing your settings to prevent your computer from sending any further diagnostic information from your device to Apple.
Using this agglomeration of your crash reports and our ninja skills, Chronic Dev will be able to quickly pinpoint vulnerabilities in various programs by using the same techniques Apple currently employs. At the very least, your data will help point us in the direction of which applications are the most vulnerable, so we can focus our time & energy on these with laser-like intensity. And, of course, this will also prevent Apple from accessing all your valuable data, just so they can then turn around and use it against you.
You can download C-Dev Reporter using this link. The idea of the new tool could help in identifying new vulnerabilities and in turn result in a jailbreak for future iOS software updates, but it appears to be a long term solution. The news should come as a disappointment to iOS device users who have been eagerly waiting for an untethered jailbreak and in case of iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users a jailbreak for iOS 5.
As of now, it looks like Dev team who have jailbroken iPhone 4S are the only hope when it comes to releasing to jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2.
As always, we'll keep you posted if there are any further updates, so stay tuned here at iPhone Hacks or join our Facebook Fan page or follow us on Twitter or subscribe to our RSS feed.
[via Chronic Dev Team blog]
but when is the public release for 4s????
Did you even read the post completely? Be patient. Why use 4s and to expect they must release their tools asap to suit your impatience???
Wow, I’m eagerly waiting for this jailbreak for my iPad 2. It sucks that with each new device, it becomes more dificult to jailbreak or unlock. I will be patiently waiting for this jailbreak
I hate it since when jb was made legal, in the beginning they didnt gave a sh*t to the law, i miss those times
It’s a Mac only app, no love for windows :p
Its in beta still if you read his blog he states when its out of beta he will supply windows support also. so no need for windows users to worry lol you can still help to
Two of the iphone jailbreakers left the scene and one of them join Apple. Surely it makes a great difference in the jailbreak scene. Maybe in time to come, no more jailbreak for iphone. Sad.
yeah, maybe in iphone 5 there is no jailbreak anymore.
Well thats a no brainer. Downloading
Nevermind, should have read the comments first. Mac Only…Whats the word on the Windows Version?
Charlie Millers exploit still exsists in 5.0, so why cant a jailbreak for 5.0 be released? Dev Team, you fail………..
do it yourself then
“For instance, if one of us is at a friend’s house and plugs our iPhone up to his or her computer (even just to charge it), it’s very likely that computer is set up to send all our valuable data & crash reports right back to Apple.” So you’re saying these guys are smart enough to jailbreak iOS but dumb enough to not bring the little cube so they can plug it into the wall? I mean they have the cable if they’re plugging it into the computer. Why not carry the cube too? It’s 1 cubic inch.
Since the iphone is practically useless without jailbreaking and jailbreaking takes longer with each upgrade I’ll be ending my relationship with apple soon and going with android. Much less pain in the ass.
i think you’re right.. the apple is very selfish for jailbreakers..
I agree. My contract is up and if I get a new phone it won’t be an Apple if it cannot be Jailbroken. For now I live with IOS 4.3 as there is NOTHING in IOS 5 that beats what the JB gives me. So for know I sit tight. I don’t need IOS that bad and I sure won’t put up with Apple’s bull SH**.
yeah ,i was thinkin the same apple can go down the drain,hello Galaxy
Not sure millions of non-jailbroken iPhone users agree with your statement about it being useless. I guess they pay for their apps.
Same here. Something as simple as loading music without the bloated and useless iTunes installed is not possible on ios unless you jailbreak. On Android you can do whatever you want with your device without even rooting it. I was an apple fanboy for ~3 years and they have lost me now.
a iPhone without jailbreaking, is a useless phone, i would change to another company too
I think iPhone 4S and iPad 2 are the last two devices that I am going to keep from Apple. It is a shame because I have been buying every iPhone model and iPad since first iPhone released in 2007. What is annoying me is the amount of money (think $200 or more) that I spent on buying Cydia tweaks and apps which are going to go in vain now! and I will be even more sad to switch to another platform because I spent more money on apps from the App Store. The big question now is what is going to be my next phone and tablet of choice after Apple? It is so hard because (in terms of performance and satisfaction it is so difficult to replace Apple products) but I got to do it anyway. Apple will know that they will lose 12% of their product owners simply because they are taking the most enjoyable thing away: Our freedom to jailbreak and do what we want with our iDevices.
I just switched few months ago from iPhone to an Android phone (Motorola Photon) and I love it. So much better than iPhone, bigger screen, faster, the Android market is huge and there is tons of great free stuff. Very happy about it, I’m not going back to the iPhone. Still enjoying my iPad but I don’t know for how long, a lot of very good Android tablets are coming out.
Either way much respect for these guys and everything they do
Bugger off to android then! The sooner the better! I guarantee we’ll see you back with the iPhone in 6 months max! Android sucks compared to apple iOS! To be honest, with every new major firmware update, I find less and less need for jailbreak, with ios5, the only thing I jailbroke for was intelliscreen x. The dev team work hard at what they do, but nobody has the patience to wait for jailbreaks to be released, they just bitc* and moan.
I jailbroke for the clicker app that allowed you to use the volume button for the camera, and for folders, back when the iOS didn’t have them. Now I use a couple tweaks like infinfolders and stuff, but in reality there was never a “need” to jailbreak, and thankfully because apple saw the popularity of jailbroken apps, added many of the features to the newer software. (stealing ideas obviously from the jailbreak community)
95% of those whining about lack of jailbreaks don’t want to pay for their apps, or don’t want to pay for an unlocked iPhone. Sad thing is most of those users jail breaking for free apps, don’t support the jail breaking community. Many steal cydia apps as well stealing from those that support the jailbreak movement.
… and now you v got an orgasm rich babe lol
I have to disagree with most of what you wrote. While there isn’t a “need” to jail break to have a nice phone, Apple just doesn’t treat me with the respect I deserve as customer who is investing in what pans out to be a relatively expensive product. I personally used many of the tweaks found on Cydia, not just because they enhance the devices’ functionality, but because they allowed me to transform my iPhone into MY iPhone. The customization options Cydia gives users should be something Apple includes from the factory but chooses instead to keep us all in a box of their making, which I personally find belittling. In addition, Cydia offers a basic service that apple doesn’t, which again, should be a standard feature. Such as saving my purchases. I’ve purchased at least three apps from iTunes that I’ve lost after a crash and have to repurchase them if I want them back, whereas a product purchased from Cydia will always be mine for a one-time payment.
But it really comes down to the fact that I don’t appreciate anyone telling me what I can do with MY OWN property and I support the Dev team whole-heartedly, and applaud their efforts to free us from Apple’s iron fist.
Apple does save your purchases… i agree with what you say but for that one, you don’t know what your talking about.
It says Buy but you won’t be charged.
I agreed good job on jb that ish takes time everyone here knows apple and know why sit tight don’t cry n wait it out unless you can do it yourself in which case you wouldn’t be here rushing others. Apple is tight especially jbroken will b waiting for that iOS eventually people do have lives no wrk no play not cool lol
Sorry but I just switched few months ago from iPhone to an Android phone (Motorola Photon) and I love it. So much better than iPhone, bigger screen, faster, the Android market is huge and there is tons of great free stuff. Very happy about it, I’m not going back to the iPhone for sure!!! Still enjoying my iPad but I don’t know for how long, a lot of very good Android tablets are coming out.
Has anyone actually been keeping up with the android scene? If you choose to switch fine. More power to you. But…
Make sure you choose your device carefully and your carrier more carefully. Not all devices can be updated to the latest versions of android. And not all carriers allow the latest versions on certain devices.
I hope you also enjoy the fragmented market places for android apps. Oh… By the way…
Be careful downloading your precious “open” apps since there has been virtually no quality control on them and android apps have proven to be more malware ridden than any other platform in exsistance so far.
Good luck. I hope your new android phones are able to be updated and not obsolete in six months.
Thats why you root your android phone. Problem solved.
Glad they finnally updated us! I thought they were just fu**ing with us! I thought jailbreak would be out within the first week.
But this is totally understandable. What a great idea to send reports to them instead of apple. I swear these people are geniuses to me. I’m sure they’ll jailbreak it.
And yeah apples di**s with jailbreakers! Wtf! But I doubt jailbreakinh will ever be abolished. There’s to much of a demand for it. Even if the dev teams break up someone will probably take their spots.
If not yeah fu** that I’d boycott apple and call them douchebags and hope they loose a sh** ton of money.
Thanks chronic dev team!!!!
they shouldnt have said they had 5 exploits. that was the their most foolish move as devs/hackers.
I agree. I bought the iPhone 4S and sold my iPhone 4 based on this statement alone. This was the biggest mistake I ever done this year!
Yeah i just use jailbreak for MyWI which is still great but pay for all my apps getting iphone 4s nextweek hope there is a jailbreak soon cos when at work mywi works great as have no internet at work otherwise!
if that all you JB for then dont worry, IO5 has wifi hot spot feature now.
To make a jailbreak one must first create it, test it and wait and say nothing until apple release it to the world then release jail break. Of course apple will patch iOS before release when the current jail break clowns are soooooooo keen to tell the world we have jail broken a beta iOS…. Clowns say nothing until final release then you have a chance of the exploit working. Soooooo quick to claim the prize but soooo slow to realize that waiting for final release and you will win. The dev team do the best work around but just need to be more patient about releasing news about jail break. If they keep quite until final release they will win the game. After all if the information is not out there apple won’t find it and all that time and work won’t be waisted.
I would like to have the knowledge and the brain to create my own Jailbreak ..! But Not I’m a retard..! LOL
We here at the Dev Team would like to announce that we are not going to be able to release any kind of ios 5 untethered jailbreak. This is because we are ass clowns that do not have the proper ability or brains to do so. We make empty shell promises and hold everyone in suspense while we sit and twittle our thumbs. Charlie Miller found a cool bug for ios 5 that could lead to an untethered jailbreak but we want to focus on the non exsistant 5 exploits we promised instead.
U do right mate too many people expect your hard work and time for nothing then cry like babies when jailbreaks are not ready tell them people to find holes in IOS 5 themselfs and to go fu** themselfs lol keep up the good work.
We appreciate your work Dev team. Keep up this valuable research and we look forward to utilizing your fantastic hacks to come!!
4s Jailbreak is top of quite a few Xmas wish lists but remember boys and girls you will have to be on your very best behaviour!
Now presumably even if we can manage to get a jailbreak for the 4S and iPad 2 on iOS 5 for those like me who ignored upgrading to 5.0.1 (using Charlie Miller’s exploit hopefully) I wonder what is the point anyway if you are going to lose the jailbreak again (possible forever) if anything goes wrong on your device and you will be in a situation to format it again (remember that SHSH blobs are useless now and this is kinda similar to iPad 2 jailbreak on iOS 4.3 that people have lost once upgraded to iOS 5 without being able to save 4.3 SHSH files). There is a serious need for a smart hacker to create self-dependant .ipsw (custom) firmware file for iOS 5 that can be restored with a third party app designed for it (not iTunes). I remember TinyUmbrella had plans in the past to create a version of their app that can be used entirely without iTunes at all. Is this thing even possible now anymore? Alternatively if Cydia system can be improved (hint: mobile substrate) so that if there is any problem with any cydia tweak that may cause crashing or have incompatibility issue with another app which would cause the phone to be stuck on Apple logo loop or similar; then there should be a mechanism to prevent this because once system crashed we will be forced to restore and thus we gonna lose the jailbreak. I hope that the guys behind Semi-Tether app are considering this matter seriously as a solution to this big problem.
Why Not on Windows? I would like to Contribute too, I m on win7
Forget the updates, just remove the thing already!
just sent you guys 143 crash reports from iphone 4 5.0 but i have another i phone that says
143 but fails to send ?? is 143 the max it can send ?
Without jailbreak I will miss following Cydia apps on iPad2 and iPhone:
1. Dimmer – allows much lower minimum brightness than HW limit, works in all applications, fantastic for working or reading at night or in dark room.
2. Landscape Lock Rotation for iPhone
3. SBsettings – no need to explain
Dimmer is actually the most important for me. It may be the only reason to switch to Android, if jailbreak is no longer possible. Android have similar application. Maybe Apple will implement it, I made the enhancement request. You can do it too to make more voices to count
Guys remember a few things here – the dev team have never let us down before. The dev team are working here on 3 different things IOS 5 jailbreak untethered iPad 2 jailbreak and the iPhone 4S jailbreak all of which need to run efficently before release. And for those of us who code and create jailbreaks remember we’re doing it in our own time and that we have many other things to do.
all we need to do is, wait patiently. and support dev team or chronic dev team and lets pray for them that they can do successfully..
i can’t get the crash reporter to ever recognize my device. i can never click do it. what do i do…
DoeS anyone know if 5.0.1 has these exploits they speak of? ie if I update to 5.0.1 will this upcoming jailbreak not work. Cuz this battery issue is a pain.
i already updated to ios 5.0.1 will it work with this or am i screwed
Hope it works with ios 5.0.1. Failed to downgrade today to 4.3.3 so i had to restoreand upgrade to 5.0.1.
((( On some ites it says it will be , but ipod2g tweeted a massage saying not to upgrade to 5.0.1. if we want to jb so i thik it won’t be …we’re dead until the half of next year…al we can do is hope for a Christmas Wonder 
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