MuscleNerd says no bootrom exploit for A5+ devices

With news of iPhone hacker p0sixninja working “a lot of amazing things” and jailbreak tweak developer Ryan Petrich tweeting a screenshot of a jailbroken iOS 7 device, lot of folks, including us, were hoping that a new exploit had been found for newer iOS devices with A5+ chips.

Sadly, there’s no such good news, as MuscleNerd, member of evad3rs and the iPhone dev team, has tweeted that no bootrom exploit for A5+ devices has been discovered. Bootrom exploits are really valuable, since Apple can’t fix them with software updates, effectively making a device permanently jailbreak-able.

There is no A5+ bootrom exploit, by anyone. Not even a bootrom dump. Nothing.

— MuscleNerd (@MuscleNerd) July 3, 2013

It’s not all bad news, though. Upon being asked if Apple has defeated jailbreakers, MuscleNerd responded “not even close.”

@MrShortFry Not even close 🙂

— MuscleNerd (@MuscleNerd) July 3, 2013

Given the surge of activity surrounding jailbreaking, we still have our hopes up. Tell us what you think in the comments below.

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