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Hacker finds iOS 4.1 bootrom vulnerability that can jailbreak all current hardware

http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/hacker-finds-ios-4-1-bootrom-vulnerability-that-can-jailbreak-all-current-hardware-2010099/

Yesterday?s release of iOS 4.1 was good news for iPhone gamers and iPhone 3G owners who had performance issues post-4.0, but bad news for jailbreakers, with the Dev Team themselves warning users not to upgrade to 4.1 as there was no known way to reverse the baseband post-update.

As usual, though, what?s true in the cat-and-mouse jailbreaking scene one day is not true the other, and now there?s good news for jailbreakers, at least in theory. iPhone hacker pod2g has revealed on Twitter that he has successfully discovered a new bootrom exploit, and even better: all the new iOS hardware including the iPhone 4 and new iPod Touch is vulnerable to it.

The good news here is that means that Apple would be powerless to patch this vulnerability through software, since its a hardware issue? but that won?t necessarily stop them from patching up the issue at the factory for any hardware that comes down the line in coming months.

So, in theory, the Dev Team should be able to use this to jailbreak any iPod Touches and iPhone 4s currently in the wild? but given Apple?s historic response to jailbreaking, don?t expect this vulnerability to last. If you want a new iPod Touch or iPhone 4, and if you want to jailbreak it, buy your device now? if you buy it in a few months, you may very well be out of luck.

Hacker finds iOS 4.1 bootrom vulnerability that can jailbreak all current hardware

http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/hacker-finds-ios-4-1-bootrom-vulnerability-that-can-jailbreak-all-current-hardware-2010099/

Yesterday?s release of iOS 4.1 was good news for iPhone gamers and iPhone 3G owners who had performance issues post-4.0, but bad news for jailbreakers, with the Dev Team themselves warning users not to upgrade to 4.1 as there was no known way to reverse the baseband post-update.

As usual, though, what?s true in the cat-and-mouse jailbreaking scene one day is not true the other, and now there?s good news for jailbreakers, at least in theory. iPhone hacker pod2g has revealed on Twitter that he has successfully discovered a new bootrom exploit, and even better: all the new iOS hardware including the iPhone 4 and new iPod Touch is vulnerable to it.

The good news here is that means that Apple would be powerless to patch this vulnerability through software, since its a hardware issue? but that won?t necessarily stop them from patching up the issue at the factory for any hardware that comes down the line in coming months.

So, in theory, the Dev Team should be able to use this to jailbreak any iPod Touches and iPhone 4s currently in the wild? but given Apple?s historic response to jailbreaking, don?t expect this vulnerability to last. If you want a new iPod Touch or iPhone 4, and if you want to jailbreak it, buy your device now? if you buy it in a few months, you may very well be out of luck.

I believe there is also a known vulnrability in the iOS itself which will allow for a type of usenet jailbreak similar to the jailbreak.me site? Although this could\would be patched by a software update, for now, it would be great if someone would release a jailbreak using this method until the bootrom exploit is configured correctly.

I know the current JBs for 4.0.2 work in 4.1, but result in the phone app missing, but im thinking of running the JB and fixing the app myself, until an official JB is released in the comeing days.

No point in having more than one exploit out in the wild since Apple will just patch it and then when the next version comes out it can't be used. :p

Urm, but why not use the current software exploit to create a usenet jailbreak, whilst the bootrom JB is being created. After that Apple can patch the software exploit all they want.

Its funny how companies put sooo much money in to protecting their products and before or soon after some is released, it gets hacked. They cannot win so why do they bother.

To make it difficult :)

If enough users did it, and they could do it with the simple download of one application for all firmware releases, it would be a lot more common. As it is many users stay away because they fear bricking their phones, they don't understand what firmware version they have or what program to use to do it. Or they've just never thought of the benefits and label it as "something geeks do".

IMHO apple have had reasonable success keeping people from doing this, I know plenty of people who refuse to jailbreak pretty much solely for the above reasons.

Its funny how companies put sooo much money in to protecting their products and before or soon after some is released, it gets hacked. They cannot win so why do they bother.

first, i am assuming you are referring to Apple since this is an iOS thread.

Apple should just give up because people found and took advantage of a hole in the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch?

Apple is a publicity traded company worth billions of dollars, there's a clear and obvious reason they continue to patch the software, not to mention the number of people that would out of work if they were no longer writing and fixing the software

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