Jailbreaking an iOS device allows users to access settings that are normally hidden, install apps that aren’t available from the App Store, and make other changes to an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. But Apple doesn’t exactly make it easy for users to jailbreak their devices. Instead, a team of hackers has to search for a security […]
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Jailbreak for the Verizon iPhone now available
That certainly didn’t take long. The first Verizon iPhone customers started receiving their phones today, and just a few hours later hackers have released tools to jailbreak the device. That shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, since it only takes a slightly modified version of the recently released greenpois0n tool. In order to jailbreak a […]
greenpois0n untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 now available
There’s been a jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 since November, but the redsn0w jailbreak tool currently provides a tethered jailbreak, which means you lose all the added functionality if you reboot your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. You have to re-jailbreak your phone after every reboot (which admittedly, isn’t all that often since iOS devices are […]
Jailbreak updates: Apple TV and pretty much everything else
The jailbreak community is hard at work making sure that you can install officially unsupported code on pretty much every Apple iOS device on the market. It turns out a version of the greenpois0n tool which was launched recently can be used to unlock the new Apple TV set top box. Greenpois0n can also jailbreak […]
iPhone Dev team releases greenpois0n jailbreak tool for iOS 4.1
Hot on the heels of Geohot’s Limera1n tool for jailbreaking some iPhone and iPod touch models running iOS 4.1, the folks at the iPhone Dev Team have launched a new tool based on the same exploit. In a nutshell what that means is you can use the new greenpois0n tool to jailbreak the iPhone 4, […]