Showing posts with label hardware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hardware. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

iPhone Jailbreak Exploit Only Fixable Via New Hardware




The news is good for iPhone jailbreakers everywhere this morning — but for Apple? Not so much.

Just minutes after the iOS 4.1 update became available to all, iPhone hacker pod2g has revealed that they’ve discovered a new bootrom exploit, with all recently released iOS hardware seemingly being vulnerable. In less geeky words: the iPhone 4? the new iPod Touch? If it was built anytime before today, it’s theoretically jailbreakable — and there’s not a whole lot Apple can do to fix that.

[Read More from Mobile Crunch via Crunchgear]