Slashdot Mirror
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?
The IOS jailbreaking community is very careful about not releasing exploits for beta versions of IOS so that they get maximum exposure when the release actually happens. If they release the exploit for IOS betas, it's easy for Apple to fix the exploit before code ships.
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
Get over yourself.
Plenty of "real" geeks own iDevices.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
Apple will fix the exploit when it comes out anyway. My point was that jailbreaking the latest minor patch isn't really ./-worthy news...
Magic doesn't work in my presence. My power of disbelief is too strong.
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.
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.
Plenty of geeks also own refrigerators. It doesn't make refrigerator news geek worthy.
Oh yeah?
Ouch, this must be a bit of a pain. Maybe a good opportunity to try something outside the walled garden for a change? :)
Sounds like you did a lot of stupid things in a row. If you don't know enough to backup your device before you mess with it you shouldn't be jailbreaking/rooting.
Yeah, why learn a lesson about backups, when you can just buy a new phone, replace any applications you bought, and then... uhh... learn to backup the new phone.
Why is this modded insightful?
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?
Since a few others followed in your footsteps here, it should be noted that Comex even mentions on the site that he simultaneously released a patch for the flaw he's using. As it says on the website:
"Along with the jailbreak, I am releasing a patch for the main vulnerability which anyone especially security conscious can install to render themselves immune; due to the nature of iOS, this patch can only be installed on a jailbroken device. Until Apple releases an update, jailbreaking will ironically be the best way to remain secure."
The Jailbreak community has been very open about possible security holes created by Jailbreaking, and the core Jailbreaking sites all have guides on securing your iDevice. Between that and backing SHSH Blobs, you basically can jailbreak ad arbitrium and not have to worry.