Things on the jailbreak scene are definitely picking up steam.
Couple of days back, planetbeing and pod2g brought the good news that they have made a lot of progress and the future of jailbreaking was looking very bright. pod2g seems to have even hinted that they’ve a jailbreak ready and all they’re waiting for is Apple to release the iOS 6.1 update.
Last night, planetbeing had revealed that he and pod2g had made tons of progress and the future of jailbreaking was looking bright.
We’ve some more news on the jailbreak front. David Wang aka planetbeing of the iPhone Dev team has just tweeted that they’ve made a lot of progress in the last few days and the future is looking bright for jailbreaking.
It was only a few days back that he and pod2g had discovered two new vulnerabilities.
Few days back, planetbeing – member of the iPhone Dev team had revealed on reddit that he already had an untethered jailbreak for iOS 6.0.2 running on iPhone 5.
Famous iOS hacker – Cyril aka pod2g was the key member of the jailbreak dream team who released jailbreak tools such as Absinthe to jailbreak iOS 5.x.x.
So ever since Apple released iOS 6 in September, we’ve been hoping that pod2g will work his magic and release a jailbreak for iOS 6 and newer iOS devices.
The organisers of the Hack in the Box security conference have uploaded a one hour long panel discussion on iOS and OS X security featuring popular iOS hackers pod2g, planetbeing and MuscleNerd along with Mark Dowd, a researcher with Azimuth Security.
Although their talk spanned across a wide variety of topics, the focus was obviously on iOS jailbreaking, and specifically the difficulties the teams have to tackle in their course of coming up with an untethered iOS 6 jailbreak.
We’ve an update for all those eagerly waiting for an untethered jailbreak for their iPhone, iPad, iPad mini and iPod Touch.
David aka planetbeing of the jailbreak dream team has revealed that they’ve made more progress in developing an untethered jailbreak since the last update.
Hot on the heels of jailbreaking iPad mini, the jailbreak dream has also successfully jailbroken the 4th generation iPad that also went on sale on Friday along with Apple’s smaller iPad.
Grant Paul aka chpwn has tweeted the screenshot of Cydia running on the jailbroken 4th generation iPad.
The jailbreak dream team continues to make progress developing a jailbreak for iOS 6. David Wang a.k.a planetbeing has just tweeted that he has managed to get Cydia tweaks to work on his jailbroken iPhone 5.
planetbeing had managed to jailbreak iPhone 5 on the same day it went on sale.
Some members of the jailbreak dream team namely Cyril a.k.a pod2g, MuscleNerd and David Wang a.k.a planetbeing that have released popular jailbreak tools like Absinthe and Redsn0w, spoke at the Hack in the Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
They provided some more details about the eagerly anticipated iOS 6 jailbreak.
