New iPhone 3GS Untethered Jailbreak Exploit Found!!
Okay, so remember how we told you that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) modified new iPhone 3GS’s to prevent current and future jailbreak exploits? Right, well, turns out that wasn’t as true as we once thought. Our bad. New iPhone
3GS’s have been modified, that much is true, but they can still be jailbroken (which is where we were wrong). The iPhone Dev Team is now saying that Apple may have killed the “24kpwn” exploit that allowed the current jailbreak to work, but it’s more of a bump in the road than an all-out roadblock against future jailbreak attempts. “It’s not going to be impossible to jailbreak even if the exploit we used is gone,” said the iPhone Dev Team’s Eric McDonald in a phone interview with Wired. In fact, factory-fresh iPhone 3GS hardware can still be jailbroken. The “24kpwn” exploit was only used to make the jailbreak process as simple as possible. A new iPhone 3GS can still be jailbroken, but it will need to be connected (tethered)to a computer of some sort (like a TI-86 calculator) in order to boot up. It’s a hassle, to be sure, but the iPhone Dev Team is already working to re-enable “untethered” booting of jailbroken iPhone 3GS’s in the near future.The Dev Team has already found a new exploit that they can use to jailbreak new iPhone 3GS hardware without the need for a tethered boot. We’ll inevitably see that new exploit in use in future versions of PwnageTool. So, fear not, potential iPhone 3GS buyer. You’ll have a working jailbreak available to you in the near future.
Via intomobile.com
Thanks to coder over at xsellize for bringing this to my attention.
Tags: Eric McDonald, iphone dev team, ti 86 calculator
November 18th, 2009 at 6:55 am
No News About this yet ?
November 18th, 2009 at 6:58 am
every time i restart my 3GS i have to blackra1n it again what i should do ?
November 20th, 2009 at 5:41 am
@ XDiab damn! some ppl are butt heads… just wait.. the post above explained already…in the meantime you have the chance to learn to read or practice on understanding…
December 1st, 2009 at 4:26 pm
any news on this??
December 6th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I just got a tweet from geo that since he didnt win that balloon contest for 10,000 dollars that hes not gonna release the untethered jailbreak.
We need to stop supporting this ego maniac and go back to dev team. I just donated 50 bucks to them,.
I cant believe we helped him all day with that stupid contest and because he didnt win hes not gonna to release the jailbreak now.
This is ridiculous.
Tell him how you feel about this on twitter @geohot
December 8th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
i’d been waiting, hoping it really come to use in the “near” future? *sigh
December 10th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
@Scott
I feel quite sorry for people thinking the way you do.
A guy is doing sth for the community for free and then it’s all cool. Millions of people use his solution and you did too most probably.
Now when he’s done playing with jailbreaks you’re getting angry with him.
Quit whining, write a jailbreak yourself or get a life.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
New iPhone 3GS untethered jailbreak is called Greenpois0n and it will be “Semi-tethered” supposedly.
But it was supposed to be released at the latest before the end of the year and still has not happened. Get a move on >:(
February 8th, 2010 at 9:41 am
BlackraIn Tethered jailbreak is a pain in the ass! Having 2 re-jailbreak everytime i restart or reboot my iphone 3GS realy does piss me off, greenpoison ‘semi tethered jailbreak’ is slightly better eg) if u restart or reboot your device with a semi tethered jailbreak u will keep your original apps like ipod, phone, safari, appstore etc but u will lose cydia and every app downloaded from cydia which means… Yea u guessd it u have 2 re-jailbreak your device again 2 get cydia back!! which is still a pain in the ass so some1 out there please get this iphone 3gs untethered jailbreak released! Anything is possible right???