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General When will iOS 6 untethered by available?
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planetbeing @planetbeing
Upgraded the #failbreak with a kernel exploit so tweaks actually work on iPhone 5.
Almost a full tethered JB, though need dev account.
retweeted by MuscleNerd
Upgraded the #failbreak with a kernel exploit so tweaks actually work on iPhone 5.
Almost a full tethered JB, though need dev account.retweeted by MuscleNerd
planetbeing @planetbeing
Upgraded the #failbreak with a kernel exploit so tweaks actually work on iPhone 5.
retweeted by MuscleNerd
Just to be clear, this isn't and never will be publicly-releasable. It will let them work on updating Cydia, MobileSubstrate, etc., but it doesn't really put them any closer to a public tethered jailbreak, much less an untethered one.
planetbeing @planetbeing
Upgraded the #failbreak with a kernel exploit so tweaks actually work on iPhone 5.
retweeted by MuscleNerd
thelatinist is correct, that is why these have been dubbed "failbreak"
Once they get the full tethered jailbreak, they have to figure an injection method which does not require developer tools, then figure out the untether.
Very, very much left to figure out.
Very, very much left to figure out.
AFAIK, they do not access to as much data while USB sniffing the lightning interface and might not be able to see the stack? still afaik, thus they might have to blindly recreate the stack as they go along? Which would mainly make more work to do less.
I might have misunderstood something, or read something someone posted out of ignorance. (Heck I might have just assumed this, cant remember) I cant site a source on this, can you comment on it dhlizard? Correct me even maybe?
I am not a developer and far short of being smart enough or educated enough to think about building a jailbreak.
I'm testing the iOS 6 jb tethered on my iPhone 4 CDMA since am due to upgrade now anyways.. and the jb itself seems very stable and pops into safe mode as it should.. A LOT!! Actually I have found two of my must have tweaks that work fine. But most of Cydia and Winterboard will have to be re-done. It's going to be a while, folks.. if waiting for a real jb'ed iPhone 5. IMO.
This might be true, even though the jailbreak works on A4 devices. But the major feature of the kernel that is protection of how the memory is addressed is called ASLR and was introduced to iOS at version 4.3
In iOS 5 Apple introduced a new Javascript engine, which to make it faster Apple allows Safari to write a space of memory that can run unsigned code. This should not have been a problem because of the ASLR, but it was since you could calculate (fairly simple hexadecimal math) the pointer to this "free zone". Which essentially broke codsigning.
I do not know if this works on iOS 6, but if the memory addressing thing is true, it might be that it is harder to locate this space. It would be interesting to know. I tweeted some in the dev team with this question now. Maybe they will answer, if it is not destructive to release this info to the public.
Yes I would imagine as much. The A4 jailbreak for iOS 6 has a slim userbase as less and less active devices are running this configuration. It is however very nice that some developers have the ability to update their tweaks. When the new jailbreak comes out the userbase of iOS 6 jailbreakers will explode and tweaks will be updated rapidly.
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Is there a way/ a website to register to be e-mailed or texted when the OS 6.0 gets jailbreaked (untethered)? I'm checking here every day but wonder if should also be checking somewhere else.
Don't worry, when a public release jailbreak is released, it will propagate across the Internet in minutes.
It seems Apple is making it more and more difficult to JB. Used to be, they watched the JB community and absorbed some of the more popular mods into their new OS update. Now, they seem to be both done with the JB community and any decent mods to their OS.
It seems Apple is making it more and more difficult to JB. Used to be, they watched the JB community and absorbed some of the more popular mods into their new OS update. Now, they seem to be both done with the JB community and any decent mods to their OS.
I don't think they're necessarily making it more difficult to jailbreak intentionally. With each iOS and hardware release, they rule out the previous exploits as they have been patched in prior releases, thus the pool gets smaller and smaller for the jailbreak devs to choose from. The only way new exploits are introduced is when Apple would introduce new features from the ground up for that version of iOS.
Exactly.
And as they get close, the devs tend to tease us a few days-weeks in advance.
Highly doubt that.
The only surprise Im getting for black friday is leftover turkey
Highly doubt that.
The only surprise Im getting for black friday is leftover turkey
What that's a surprise more like tradition for me skip turkey dinner and go right to a fresh turkey sandwich. that's the best!
Dont forget the ham too
No Ham today but I Made Bacon for Breakfast! I could never be Jewish or Muslim.