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Jailbreakme 3.0 Released
Beardydog writes "Jailbreakme.com has been officially updated, providing the first public method for jailbreaking the iPad 2, and the easiest method for jailbreaking most other iOS devices. The jailbreak works with iOS 4.3.3, and it is recommended that users update before a new release from Apple closes the vulnerability exploited by the jailbreak."
Because the thousands of geeks with an iPhone or iPad would like to know this?
Meh, call me when it jailbreaks iOS 5 without needing tethering.
Magic doesn't work in my presence. My power of disbelief is too strong.
A real geek wouldn't be caught dead with an iPhone or iPad.
Some days I get the sinking feeling Orwell was an optimist.
Get over yourself.
Plenty of "real" geeks own iDevices.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
Interesting. You seem to believe geek is now a culture dependent upon product selection. Is this related to the purchased hipster culture? Do you enjoy the labels you bought? Are you sure they are the right ones? You like forming cliques, and belonging to one when it's gaining popularity, don't you?
what the hell is a 'junk character', anyway?
Why don't you buy hardware that you can actually own? You know, so that you're not afraid that Apple will lock you out of your own hardware.
"Sony will kill you and your children, rape your dog, and piss on your grave. then they'll track all your supporters down and do the same to them"
I, for one, find that idea vaguely arousing....
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
maybe before Anonymous and the lulzboat hit them. Right now they are still suffering from the massive breachs. They are currently this: http://www.nashvilletv.org/commercials/lifecall1989.JPG
No, it's open source so anyone can extend and alter it.
Although, in reality, everyone still relies on Linus Torvalds to give them their farting orders.
Worked fine on my iPad 2 and iPhone 3GS. iPhone 4 is now stuck in an Logo Loop of Death. I can access it through iRecovery, but I can't really salvage anything. Too bad I haven't backed it up for months, because there is soooo much data that I am going to lose if I have to Restore.
I would. But what's the Android counterpart to an iPod touch? I have an Archos 43 Internet Tablet, which is almost it. But because Archos products run AOSP Android instead of OHA Android, they don't have Android Market, meaning they can't use Market-exclusive applications such as Chase Bank's check deposit tool.
Plenty of geeks also own refrigerators. It doesn't make refrigerator news geek worthy.
Oh yeah?
LMAO so true.
"We are just a war away from Amerikastan. When god vs god the undoing of man." Dave Mustaine
It's colorless, just like everyone else's.
But it does smell faintly of unicorn meat.
The Nexus One comes to mind
The last time I checked out a Nexus One, I rejected it because it cost twice as much as the cheapest iPod touch. But now it appears to be down to the 300 USD range. Thank you for reminding me to check Google Product Search again.
One advantage to the Nexus is that you don't need ITunes to put stuff on, and you can put any kind of stuff you want
This is true of an Archos 43 as well. The big differences are apparently the capacitive touch screen (Archos 43 has a more PDA-like resistive screen) and Android Market access.
Galaxy player. Samsung makes it.
But who sells it? Google Product Search doesn't appear to list it.
So, Santorum then.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
I hate to break it to you but it's the same thing. Why would you buy a device you don't have full control over? Android is no better except for the option to use other markets. They are still just as locked down by the handset manufacturers. Claiming Jailbreaking is radically different than rooting is just playing politics.
When it comes to control issues, Sony knows no reason or limits. They could get hit by a hundred Anon attacks and they would still do the same thing to the next GeoHotz who tried to hack their IP. I don't know if it's some Japanese thing or what, but Sony are fucking insane crazy control-freaks. Anyone remember how far they were willing to go just to stop people from ripping their music CD's?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
iDevices...are consumer oriented and not inherently 'geeky' devices
Ridiculous.
The iDevices are general purpose computers with a decent range of sensors (audio, image/video, light, proximity, touch, magnetism, gps, 3d acceleration, 3d angular velocity) and outputs (audio, image/video, light, vibration, cell, wifi, bluetooth).
Whether they are "geeky" or not depends solely on how you use them.
We use our iDevices to control home music and lighting with touch/tilt UI, share our locations in near real-time, make music via matrix sequencing, etc. Right now I'm looking at iphone oscilloscope apps/dongles for quick diagnosis of car issues (and I see there are OBD II iphone apps/dongles as well). If that ain't geeky, I dunno what is.
Get over your religious stupidity, and just start using the technology.
Just went over to the site in Safari on my iPhone 4 and downloaded "Cydia". I've now got a trial copy of Insomnia running on my phone. Service just doesn't get better than this. And if it tests out, I won't have to re-logon to my employer's wi-fi network every fifteen minutes to keep the connection live.
"No true Scotsman" logical fallacy.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
I've got a Wi-Fi only model, which lacks true GPS. I bought RoqyBT to let it receive coordinates from the external receiver I've got.
I've also got an iPod touch. In my work at a small game publisher, I recently had to capture video of an iPhone game that may be ported to the DS. Even with native Apple cables, the touch was incapable out outputting live game footage until it was jailbroken, and had one of the DisplayOut hacks installed.
More usable keyboards, improved iPhone app scaling, AdBlock, music player controls that don't require the device to be turned on and unlocked, increased caching of Google Maps data for faster loading and offline use, user agent faking for sites that try to feed you mobile versions...
AT&T made some big promises about how it would enable unknown sources "very soon". However my wife's HTC Aria has not been updated yet
I've read another article somewhere stating that the update will get pushed out to anyone who calls AT&T and asks about it.
It appears to be a remote code execution exploit in Safari and/or Webkit. I give it a week before iOS 4.3.4 is available. And I'll be installing it, since I don't want drive-by malware* on my phone.
*Dimmer readers may incorrectly think I'm calling Cydia malware.
Since when does "jailbreaking" apply to hacking the PS3? As I've pointed out before, none off the DCMA exceptions laid down by the Library of Congress apply to what was done to the PS3. Do we call any hacking attempt a "jailbreak" now?
If Jailbreakme.com released a new firmware for the iPhone that allowed unlimited free access to the iTunes store and let you mess with other peoples iTunes accounts, then you bet Apple would sic the lawyers on them. Only then could you correctly draw any connection to the PS3 incident.
I just ran it on my iPad and it does indeed work well. The Jailbreak guys (Comex et al) do an incredible job, and I'm really glad that they do it (because it reminds everyone that you DO own your own hardware), but I'm seeing less and less reason to Jailbreak these days.
It has been about 3 years since I last Jailbroke an iPhone. Back then, it was almost essential -- you got some serious additional functionality that wasn't in iOS. Coming back to it now, I'm not so sure. Cydia is pretty slick, but iOS is a completely different kettle of fish. I was quite surprised at how many apps cost actual money -- the spirit of hackers sharing for the sake of hacking has almost totally gone, and now you're expected to spend a few dollars on the best of the little tweaks. For example, an app that can record an AVI of your screen (useful for creating tutorials) costs $5. It's not a bad price, I admit, but it's not what I was expecting. If more of the best Cydia apps were free, I expect there would be far more jailbreaking.
Sadly, the two things I was most interested in -- terminal/bash and ruby -- appear to be poorly maintained and are in a pretty unusable state. Ruby 1.9.2p0 is in Cydia, but when I ran it I got a dyld error about a missing symbol. There's no way that's going to work. The MobileTerminal app crashed too, but I got around it by installing openssh and sshing in to the console through prompt. It was slow (I think OpenSSL is slow on the ARM chip -- or maybe it's just prompt) and pointless (without Ruby/git).
It has been nice to take a look at the state of the Jailbreak scene, but I don't think I'll bother keeping it. It did make me think about what I would like to do with my iPad, if I could (I would like the ability to install a console, a compiler, ruby, vim, sqlite and so on). I would quite like Linux on my iPad. Having XWindows isn't important, though some sort of graphics system would be nice (based on libsvga or whatever) so we can create our own touch UI. Bluetooth support (for mouse/keyboard), power management, sound and hardware-accelerated h264 would also be essential. Is there any reason we can't create a Linux distro that literally replaces iOS, using the same techniques as the Jailbreak to get it up and running? Can anyone comment on whether it is just too hard because of the totally undocumented hardware, or are the components standard enough to make it feasible?
WebOS Devices have a great homebrew community that HP supports. HP donated servers and help them port some of the homebrew only apps. (One example: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/06/hp-soothes-homebrew-crowd-by-reaffiming-support)
I've blogged about it before as well ( http://bryanquigley.com/uncategorized/hppalms-webos)
From the webosinternals wiki: ( http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Portal:Accessing_Linux)
"In general, simply installing the Palm SDK gives you everything you need for full access to the Linux operating system on the Pre or Pixi. There is no special "rooting" or "jailbreaking" process. Simply installing the SDK provides you with unlimited access to the Linux operating system logged in as the root user. Palm does not see this as a bad thing. Palm provides all these tools for download by anyone, anytime, for free."
A real geek wouldn't be caught dead with an iPhone or iPad.
Real geeks have "jobs" as geeks and can afford an iPhone and iPad whereas people with too much time on their hands but not enough money would not.
How often do you hear of a plumber wanting to do plumbing on their time off? Plumbers will often have plumbing jobs left undone on their "honeydo" lists. The same thing goes for carpenters.
If you earn enough money to afford iOS products and you work in IT, the last thing you will want to do is tinker when you are off the clock unless if you happen to have asperger's or something.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Why?
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...iPad2 users can finally visit the NYT website without purchasing a broken $20 a month app?
Apple: Site blocked? Don't worry, we have a broken app for that.
I8-D
The link is for the NY Post. The NYT doesn't block, but has a 20 article limit.
I8-D
As I've pointed out before, none off the DCMA exceptions laid down by the Library of Congress apply to what was done to the PS3.
Wait, if you are talking about the ruling on the iPhone hacking do we have any specific evidence that specifically says, or proves, it can not?
If Jailbreakme.com released a new firmware for the iPhone that allowed unlimited free access to the iTunes store and let you mess with other peoples iTunes accounts, then you bet Apple would sic the lawyers on them. Only then could you correctly draw any connection to the PS3 incident.
Except that'sNOTHING LIKE the PS3 jailbreaking with GeoHot, which was what is being refferred to. It is nothing like what he actually did [as opposed to what people, especially the blind Sony Fanboys, keep on spouting]
If you believe in privacy, and believe you have "nothing to hide" at the same time, you're a goddammed idiot
Because being able to access any of your devices from any of your other devices is handy?
Just because YOU don't see a benefit to jailbreaking doesn't mean that other people don't find legitimate reasons. The only reason your opinion is viewed as "not the most popular" is because of HOW you expressed it - like a pompous asshat.
If you believe in privacy, and believe you have "nothing to hide" at the same time, you're a goddammed idiot
Thats what I jailbreak for! Really nor amazon, nor google could come close to Grooveshark!
Jailbreaking implies you have to "break" out. (Read: find a security issue and successfully exploit it to gain privileged access to the system) 'Rooting' on (most - not all) Android phones consists of putting the phone into download mode and replacing the kernel with a non-locked down one. Motorola is an exception as they willfully lock the system by only allowing signed code, all other phones at least had an option to toggle signature check. The difference to iOS? The time to patch the kernel and recompile it vs weeks of searching and experimenting in a locked-down environment.
If someone jail breaks their refrigerator so they can install Linux on it would be.
No difference.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
This is one more thing to make you wonder about the people who said iOS is the most secure OS?
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
Why, to transfer files?
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