PDF Security hole allows jailbreakme.com to work
Update (2:30PM): Apple says it is investigating… Good idea Apple! Thanks to an unpatched hole in Adobe’s PDF file format, the jailbreaking community has been given a gift. Super easy jailbreaking. Just point your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad’s Mobile Safari to jailbreakme.com, slide the “Slide to jailbreak” slider and in less than 5 minutes, your device is [...]
Jailbreaking is Legal
According to the EFF (and just about every other tech blog in the known universe), the Library of Congress and the Copyright Office have ruled jailbreaking is legal. When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by [...]
iPhone OS 4.0 Has Been Jailbroken
Well, that didn’t take long. Within 24 hours of iPhone OS 4.0′s beta release to the developer community, the Dev Team (the guys who develop the jailbreak stuff) have announced that iPhone OS 4.0 has been jailbroken. Naturally, since this is a developer/beta release of the OS, the Dev Team won’t be releasing this to [...]
iPad Jailbroken
According to this story on Slashdot: A well-known hacker of the iPhone, who previously defeated Apple’s restrictions on developers, has claimed in a video to have hacked the iPad. Just a day after release, the hacker, who goes by ‘MuscleNerd’ online, said that he has gained root access to the iPad… See also MuscleNerd’s tweet. [...]
The Best Reason to Jailbreak?
Is this the best reason ever to jailbreak your phone? Maybe.
