IOS 4.1 Jailbroken Already

mspohr writes "Just hours after Apple released iOS 4.1 to great fanfare, hardware hackers found a way to jailbreak devices that run the new operating system. More surprising still, there doesn't appear to be anything Steve Jobs can do to stop them in the near future. The exploit in the boot ROM of iOS devices was first announced by iPhone Dev-Team member pod2g. It was soon confirmed by other hackers, who said that because the exploit targets such a low-level part of the operating system, Apple won't be able to stop jailbreakers without making significant hardware changes."

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If it's designed to be rootable how come you cant?

[SuperKendall]

The android platform is DESIGNED to be rootable and hackable

There are some Android phones you cannot currently root. If the system is really "designed to be rootable" as you assert, how come that is so?

By your definition iOS is "designed to be rootable" as well, since there is a root user you can get access to via jailbreaking.

It's slightly harder to get that root access on the iPhone but then it's just as hackable - actually more so since at root level code insertion (thanks to Objective C and method swizzling) into existing apps is dead simple, which means you can easily modify any application in small ways to do fun tweaks. If someone was interested in actually hacking on a system for fun iOS would be a lot easier to get going and really modify the hell out of.