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New iPad Jailbroken Already

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-took-so-long? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Just hours after the new Apple iPad was released, it was jailbroken in three (how appropriate!) separate ways. This means that hackers have already found and exploited security holes to run custom code on the new iPad with iOS 5.1. The tools for jailbreaking your new iPad aren't yet available, but this first step means the software will be developed sooner rather than later."

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  1. One at a Time by Fnord666 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hopefully the jailbreaking community will only use one exploit at a time so that when Apple patches the first, they can use the next and so on. What I would like to know is whether there are multiple groups working on this, and if so, do they communicate their exploits so that no more than one is revealed to Apple at a time?

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    'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
  2. Re:Maybe Apple Intentionally "Allows" Jailbreaking by Microlith · · Score: 5, Interesting

    perhaps Apple purposely leaves the holes in the OS to allow this type of circumvention.

    If that was true they wouldn't have fought against the EFF when the DMCA exemption was brought up. Had they won, you can guarantee they would have been firing DMCA takedowns at everyone and anyone who created a jailbreak.