My OperaIpad Jailbreak A First
Saturday, April 10, 2010 10:31:40 PM
3 days and we already have a jail break apple ipad os
The iPad has only been on store shelves for less than 72 hours, and already hackers have begun to jailbreak it to get around Apple’s restrictions.
MuscleNerd, a member of the iPhone Dev Team committed to hacking the iPhone OS, has jailbroken the iPad after just twenty four hours of experimenting. The hack gave him root access to the apple ipad and allowed him to install non-approved apps and to run applications together. It uses the same exploit used to jailbreak the current OS 3.1.3 iPhone.
The fast hack was made possible by essentially using the “Spirit” jailbreak created to open up the iPhone, according to MacNN. This uses a browser exploit to open up the OS.
The port is in the early stages, and there is no download for eager tinkerers yet, but, along with efforts by apple iphone genius hacker George Hotz, it won’t be long before there is a simple, one-step hack that lets anybody gain the advantages MuscleNerd has demonstrated.
“I’ve known about this exploit since the time of PurpleRa1n,” Hotz said of the iPad jailbreak.
What is more interesting here, though, is that the apple ipad is running the more recent 3.2 version of the iPhone OS, which means that Apple’s engineers haven’t yet fixed the hole which allows this exploit. That may be because there simply wasn’t time in the chaos to get things completed for launch.
It may also be that, now the device is divorced from tightly bound AT&T contracts, Apple simply doesn’t care. After all, this won’t affect the target mainstream market at all. It could, however, provide a small boost to sales amongst the geeks who absolutely must have multitasking and non-Apple Iphone apps.
The iPad has only been on store shelves for less than 72 hours, and already hackers have begun to jailbreak it to get around Apple’s restrictions.
MuscleNerd, a member of the iPhone Dev Team committed to hacking the iPhone OS, has jailbroken the iPad after just twenty four hours of experimenting. The hack gave him root access to the apple ipad and allowed him to install non-approved apps and to run applications together. It uses the same exploit used to jailbreak the current OS 3.1.3 iPhone.
The fast hack was made possible by essentially using the “Spirit” jailbreak created to open up the iPhone, according to MacNN. This uses a browser exploit to open up the OS.
The port is in the early stages, and there is no download for eager tinkerers yet, but, along with efforts by apple iphone genius hacker George Hotz, it won’t be long before there is a simple, one-step hack that lets anybody gain the advantages MuscleNerd has demonstrated.
“I’ve known about this exploit since the time of PurpleRa1n,” Hotz said of the iPad jailbreak.
What is more interesting here, though, is that the apple ipad is running the more recent 3.2 version of the iPhone OS, which means that Apple’s engineers haven’t yet fixed the hole which allows this exploit. That may be because there simply wasn’t time in the chaos to get things completed for launch.
It may also be that, now the device is divorced from tightly bound AT&T contracts, Apple simply doesn’t care. After all, this won’t affect the target mainstream market at all. It could, however, provide a small boost to sales amongst the geeks who absolutely must have multitasking and non-Apple Iphone apps.
