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Jailbreak For A5 iOS Devices Released
tlhIngan writes "It certainly took long enough, but the untethered jailbreak for Apple's A5 based iOS devices (iPad 2, iPhone 4s) has been released (official site, struggling due to traffic). It's currently only available for OS X, though ports of it to Windows are forthcoming."
What interests me is the promotion of these jailbreaks as a good thing. It's an exploit, after all. That allows the attacker to completely root your device, often just by visiting a website. It's not only limited to iOS either, this is rampant in Android too. The only current devices with no known exploits are Windows Phone 7 based, which is very telling.
It's great that they managed to extend the Corona jailbreak to the iPhone 4S. But unfortunately, very soon all their hard work will be rendered useless once iOS 5.1 hits release. As 5.1 is already in the beta-testing stage, there's only a window of a few weeks before it drops. Unlike iOS 4 and below, there is currently no way to downgrade any iPhone to an earlier version of iOS5. The SHSH method does not work anymore because of something new on Apple's end (I believe involving something called an "AP Ticket" but I honestly haven't looked into it very deeply).
The point is, if you want to make use of this jailbreak, you must go to iOS 5.0.1 RIGHT NOW and jailbreak or you won't get another chance until 5.1 is hacked, which is of course never guaranteed.
How to jailbreak or 4S/iPad 2:
1) Download Absinthe
2) Click jailbreak
Gone!