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- xGrill, on 10/11/2007, -3/+30Don't use the exploit unless you know what you're doing! This will cause you not to be able to sync from iTunes.
- kingkilr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22So if I go into an apple store and do this with a display model are they going to be pissed?
- xGrill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17A hacked iPod touch is going to cost you NOTHING more than what you already paid.
- Nohj, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17BREAKING:
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NO REALLY GUYS IT IS THIS TIME I PROMISE - dancallahan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Hooray! Hackers can break the security of my phone!
Oh wait, NOT GOOD. - ngmcs8203, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Investors, fanboys and any other consumer thinking about buying their products??
- GeekyGerge, on 10/11/2007, -5/+14Breaking? Wasn't this posted sometime earlier today?
- nils, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6Buried for abuse of "breaking"
- genericface, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6All titles beginning with BREAKING should be banned.
- NoahK, on 10/15/2007, -1/+6If you brick your iPod touch, this is how you can restore using iTunes (avoiding the unknown error (-18)).
-Go to home screen.
-Hold down the sleep and home buttons at the same time, until the screen flashes and the iPod turns off.
-RELEASE the sleep button and keep holding the home button. Wait about 15-25 seconds, and you should be able to restore through iTunes.
You MUST be plugged into iTunes this whole time! - SuperHyperKid, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Like the idiot that I am I tried it, and it broke iTunes syncing just like it says it will. I had to do a complete restore. I also need to find a working copy of iPhuc. My advice is to not try this until there is a decent guide, because you will render your iTouch/iPhone unsyncable.
- Eggman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Cause your the only one who has one.
- mrsteveman1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Do you not get it?
Apple has locked it down so much that the only way to even get into your own phone is to BREAK INTO IT with an exploit.
In fact, i would say Apple locking the phone this much has made it less secure, because now people who are ABLE to find exploits but otherwise wouldn't try, are having to find exploits just to get into their own device. Those exploits could easily be used against phone owners by malware, and it is entirely Apples fault for forcing the situation. - yikiad, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4hey moron, evidently you care enough about apple to take the time to click on an apple story.
what an idiot... - rblancarte, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Like xGrill said - this is very early development in the jailbreak. Basically you are giving yourself full access to the system, but at a level that you can really F--k things up at. Do this very much at your own risk.
It is great that this is done, but I think I am going to wait a while for them to have a full package that does all the dirty work for me, automated and a hell of a lot safer than if I did it on my own. - mrsteveman1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The term comes from the BSD world, its not something Apple came up with, and it certainly doesn't appear to be making the device any more secure against malware since people have to find exploits just to get into their own devices.
It segregates running applications and processes from the rest of the system, hence one must break out of this "jail" before they have access to the rest of the system. - chrisgeleven, on 10/11/2007, -5/+8Umm, so they are using a security exploit in order to break into the iPhone?
Yeah, that won't get patched soon or anything.
Why even bother using this exploit? They should be working on other ways to get in so when the iPhone 1.1.2 patch arrives in a few days, they aren't back to the beginning. - Incognito, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3BREAKING!
Putting BREAKING in something thats not national news is stupid and annoying - SkylarEC, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Lol, "grammatically correct." Look at the second sentence in your comment.
- MacParrot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2You have a small mind, you aren't funny enough to even be interesting, and the next time you manage to be original will be the first. Welcome to my block list.
- Shaggy3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Just casually walk from computer to computer opening this page up.
It'd be a lot less work anyway. - xGrill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2that only works for the iPhone, and its not the same technique. In that one, you have to downgrade first
- piznut, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2So how long before a malicious party takes the tiff exploit and creates a 'jail break' that also installs some malware onto your iphone...then SMS messages you the link.
Oops...urPhuc'd - Terc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Good luck, you'll need to access it from a computer for several steps. Jailbreaking just gives you read/write access, there's still quite a bit left after that before they'd notice ANYTHING happened to it.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4you pay a BS price of $500-600 (some of you), your locked into ATT's BS, your on a BS contract and now you have to deal with BS from apple just to install simple programs or have decent functionality?
no thanks - Terc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Odd, I'm already using third party apps after following instructions posted much earlier today.
However, the instructions used the pre-release exploit. - Terc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Odd.... I'm syncing just fine. Although I used this tutorial here: http://www.iphonealley.com/news/iphone-v1-1-1-jail ...
My iPhone is now on 1.1.1 with all the old apps I had before the update. - inactive, on 10/14/2007, -8/+9i absolutely hate this term "jail break"
- Danikar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I like it when those who know nothing, say something. Like me! It is too entertaining.
- CJChesterson, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3I can assure you that whoever owns the 869.64M shares at $166.79 a pop care very much about AAPL.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL - Wang, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I have a hacked iphone, it costs me no more to use it on the internet. So your point is, uh, pointless :)
- rento, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Get it ripped! 2 years of jail?? Bring it on!!!!!!
- CJChesterson, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Awesome. Now to port all the iPhone exclusive applications (Google Maps, Mail, etc...) over to the iTouch. Something Apple should've done in the first place.
- SenatorChubby, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5Free at last.
- mrsteveman1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1And if that happens, it will be Apples fault for forcing the situation. All these people who are talented enough to break into their own phones, should not have to do so. And there would be much less effort in finding exploits if owners had control over their own Phones. You can thank Apple for that one, not the people who want to use their own devices how they wish.
- Terc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I did rtfa. I also actually used the hack on MY iPhone.
It takes much more than just going to a website to get third party apps to show up on your springboard.
In fact, the hack does EXACTLY what I said it does: It gives read/write access, and only a step of that, truth be told. - tomwsmf, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1What is truly stupid is buying a device from a company that has openly and publicly declared it will squash 3rd party development unless it suits them otherwise. Who supports such things? even more unthinkably asinine are the appologists who defend such crude anticonsumer tactics.
For shame - shauncullen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I see what you did there...
- pyrates, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1wtf? I visited your profile and you've said the exact same comment at every single iphone unlock story. Come up with something intelligent and maybe we'll take u seriously. Don't be an Apple evangelist.
- hyperfocal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"How do I load apps safely?"
Just open up an SSH connection and type "rm -r *"
...or maybe you should wait. - trouble916, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Um, many people hacking the ipods are doing so to avoid AT&T's unnecessary contract?
Oh, and because Apple called us a Cat... or a Mouse... I never did figure that out. - SuperSunny, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1It's not supposed to help you. It's supposed to help the people who actually work on developing things for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This is not for general users. All warnings were given, no complaints should be.
- noname202, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Ah yes, since I consider myself a dumbass I'll stay well clear of that link. Thank you oh so much for the warning.
- Elranzer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Both Mac OSX and the iPhone have a really tiny userbase (compared to their competitors... Windows XP, Windows CE/PPC, Blackberry). Also, Mac OSX and the iPhone's OS are not the same, nor run the same binaries. An iPhone virus would not affect Mac OSX and vice versa.
- AICkieran, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Just a thought:
Surely apple have JTAG or some other hardware interface to make it possible to flash the phones etc surely getting access to something like that would be handy (low level debugging without worrying about bricking, the ability to reflash bricked phones, find a whole lot more about the device etc) - yikiad, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1read the article, dude. if you navigate to a specific website, the hack comes through a safari exploit from that site...
- itsbob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Why wont someone put half as much effort into breaking my Verizon LG phones bluetooth data block!?!?
- Bonekhan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1No, I merely wanted to drag everyone down into my dull, cultured, grammatically correct depths of the planet. Where idiots like you are beaten.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0The bricking was caused by the 3rd party apps not by Apple. The apps wrote something that shouldn't have been written in a place it shouldn't have been written. The patch came across it and was not prepared for it, and failed. Resulting in a half patched phone.
- Bonekhan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Cue the iFanboy.
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