Sunday, April 4, 2010
Apple iPad Jailbroken already
I had a feeling it would happen. But, wow this is sooner then expected.The first video has surfaced showing the iPad Jailbroken.
It was done by iPhone Dev Team member 'MuscleNerd' with a demo of it on YouTube showing the device jailbroken with root access and then him controlling the device from a command line. The details are unclear as to how the hack works but it all seems to point to an iPhone jailbreak called "Spirit". Spirit was written by a developer who goes by the name Comex.
Pretty interesting to see it working from a command line on another machine. I wonder now if someone will try to do something a bit more out there like installing Chrome OS, Android or any other flavor of Linux on the unit to see how it works. Then post a demo of it on YouTube to show it was done and it works.
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UPDATE: The word is coming out that the hack was done on the iPad with a 3.2 firmware that had some security holes which allowed the Team to break it using the iPhone 3.1.3 hack.
To jailbreak a phone using Spirit, one only has to surf on over to a particular Web site using the device's internal Safari browser. Grant the site permission to jailbreak the phone, and it'll take advantage of a bug found in the browser to gain root access to the device.
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PC Mag - First iPad Jailbreak Demoed...with Video!
Engadget - iPad 'Sprint' jailbreak demonstrated by MuscleNerd, now it really is magical (video)
CrunchGear - iPad jailbroken
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