Jailbreaking Cat and Mouse Game with Apple Continues [Video]

Apple made the final call when they closed the last popular one named jailbreakme jailbreak. That was an userland jailbreak which meant they could close the exploit hole with just a software update. iOS 4.1 update did just that.

Since then another exploit called SHAtter has been discovered by @pod2g. And it has been in development for some time now and Dev Team has used this in a beta PwnageTool to jailbreak the most recent iPod Touch 4G.

Those of you with Apple’s new iPod touch 4G, or those of you who bought another recent device after the jailbreakme.com exploit was closed, have probably heard about a brand new exploit called SHAtter. The exploit (and payload) was developed by @pod2g a few months after @p0sixninja of the Chronic Dev Team discovered the crash. That team is hard at work bringing you a brand new tool to make use of the exploit. It’s not the sort of thing that can be developed overnight so please be patient while waiting for any announcements from them.

In the meantime, we’ve put @pod2g’s exploit into a beta version of PwnageTool to test the waters. The SHAtter exploit was enough to convince the iPod touch 4G to restore to our custom IPSW. The successful result is shown below!  It’s all working: customized Preferences to show battery percentage, Cydia, root shell…the works!

Although PwnageTool was a useful first test of a full iPod 4G jailbreak via SHAtter, it’s really overkill compared to the faster tools being developed. Its main use in PwnageTool will be for those with iPhone4’s, to allow updates while preserving the baseband and ultrasn0w carrier unlock. In any event, this is another exciting time for iPhone and iPod touch users…the cat and mouse game continues!

As noted by the iPhone Dev Team, faster tools than PwnageTool are being developed and will be released as soon as it is ready for the masses. We will let you know as soon as we learn about it.

{ via iPhone Dev Team }