Jailbreak 4.3.1 Was Released, Bugs Seems To Be Worked Out.
Sandrine Willert
The initial version, which originally had a few bugs, seems to be more stable with the BETA4 update and I have personally tested it myself and it seems to work without any problems at all on my iPhone 4. However, do not use limera1n if you need or use a carrier unlock!
There was some drama in the last few days because the limera1n jailbreak uses a different exploit than the one that was planned for the upcoming Shatte- based jailbreak GreenPois0n which was due out today. The chronicdev team is working to re-do their jailbreak with the same one Geohot used to 'save' it for the next iOS version. What does that mean to you? When the next iOS version is released, we should see a jailbreak released much sooner.
The Absinthe Greenpoison jailbreak utility for A5 based iOS hardware has been updated to version 0.4, fixing several bugs and adding support for PPC Mac users and those running Mac OS X 10.5 on either Intel or PPC platforms.
A previous version of this story stated that Ned Williamson worked at Project Zero, he actually is not part of the team but works with them sometimes. Also, the story originally stated that Williamson confirmed that the jailbreak works, but he actually only confirmed that the exploit works. We regret the errors.
DAN: DAN first appeared on the internet in December 2022 and worked wonders at the time, probably because ChatGPT itself also worked wonders at the time. It split the persona into both DAN and GPT (the way it would normally respond). This was back in December, and today the prompt can be funky. The DAN variants of using 2 personas (the normal one and DAN) doesn't work as well now because it seems to indicate ChatGPT keeps a closer eye on the conversation and ends it if it decides something to be crossing the line - which is why DAN 5.0 makes it answer as DAN and ONLY as DAN. The next one is:
In the six weeks since evasi0n was released, however, close to 18 million devices have already been jailbroken, according to data from Jay Freeman, the administrator of the Cydia app store for jailbroken devices. He says he's counted 18.2 million unique devices running iOS 6 visiting Cydia, including 13.8 million iPhones, 3.4 million iPads, and 1.1 million iPod Touches. Those numbers vastly exceed previous jailbreaks such as Jailbreakme 3, a popular hacking tool for iOS released in the summer of 2011 that was used on around 2 million devices, according to a count at the time by creator Nicholas Allegra.
Nevertheless, the code will help researchers to develop their own jailbreaks, the hacker said. It will also make it easier for developers to find bugs in various versions of iOS because they will be able to probe more deeply into phones without obtaining special developer versions distributed by Apple on a limited basis.
With this jailbreak, Wang has managed to overcome stronger security protections Apple engineered into iOS 6. With each new iteration of the OS, it has become more difficult to jailbreak. Hackers essentially need to find several bugs in order to be successful.
The most valuable bugs that can be found are bugs in the Boot ROM. This is because the code of the Boot ROM is located in hardware. Apple is not able to patch this bug, meaning that a device with a vulnerable Boot ROM will always be jailbreakable.
As far as we know, there are no publicly known bugs for LLB or iBoot. But there are some people that have private exploits, which supply the jailbreak community with decryption keys for iOS firmware. As opposed to Boot ROM bugs, these vulnerabilities can be patched by Apple. And because they are very valuable, they would usually not be wasted on a jailbreak.
The closed gap is a good reason to update to iOS 15.0.2. Since we are not yet aware of an official jailbreak for iOS 15 it seems to suggest that the vulnerability could have been used to track iPhone users.
Checkm8 was developed by a hacker who uses the handle axi0mX. He's the developer of another jailbreak-enabling exploit called alloc8 that was released in 2017. Because it was the first known iOS bootrom exploit in seven years, it was of intense interest to researchers, but it worked only on the iPhone 3GS, which was seven years old by the time alloc8 went public. The limitation gave the exploit little practical application.
Today seems to be a great day as team Pangu releases the first jailbreak solution for iOS 8 and iOS 8.1. Yep, you heard it right. You can now jailbreak iOS 8.1 which is not even a week old. Earlier it seemed that the jailbreaking future for iOS 8 was kind of dark considering hackers' statements over Apple patching the exploits. There was also a talk of an unknown source publishing iOS 8 jailbreak soon, however, Pangu is back with its Chinese magic wand.
Q: Is it safe to jailbreak? Can it harm my device / wipe my data?
A: We believe jailbreaking is safe and take precautions to avoid data loss. However, as with any software, bugs can happen and *no warranty is provided*. We do recommend you backup your device before running checkra1n.
While KitGuru doesn't condone the use of jailbreaking your iPhone, we know a lot of people who do it, to get more freedom with their application selection and installation. The instructions for this modification relate to Redsn0w 0.9.7b1, a beta release of the untethered jailbreak. This release is not yet final, so if you have concerns we recommend you wait for a while longer until any bugs are found and squashed. This jailbreak is limited to the iPhone 4, iPad and iPod Touch 4G.
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