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Apple to close jailbreak hole, over 1 million used jailbreakme.com

Less than 24 hours after jailbreakme.com went live with an online jailbreak solution for iPad 2 and iPhone 4 users, more than 1 million iOS devices had been jailbroken. Apple, however, has stated that it will close the exploit with its next iOS update.

While the news of surpassing the 1 million downloads mark in less than a day is big for the jailbreak community, the excitement comes with a bit of impending doom. The cat and mouse game between jailbreakers and Apple is heating up, and everyone knows it.

According to @chpwn, when announcing the jailbreakme.com numbers … Read more

Germany issues security warning after iOS jailbreak release

A tool that lets people remotely jailbreak their iPhones could be modified to attack iPhones and iPads with malicious PDFs and appears to have prompted Germany's government to issue a security warning to consumers.

The Dev-Team, and specifically member Comex, today released the latest version of JailbreakMe.com, which allows people to "just browse to http://www.jailbreakme.com on your device and install it from there!"

While, the tool gives iOS device users the freedom to run any application they want, including software not sanctioned by Apple, it could also be modified and used to deliver … Read more

Jailbreak your iPad 2, iPhone 4 simply by visiting a Web site

Hacker group Dev-Team (specifically noted jailbreaker @comex) has released the latest version of its popular iOS device jailbreaking tool, available entirely online.

This comes as a great comfort to users who may have been considering jailbreaking their iPhone or iPad but were not feeling confident in their device-hacking skill set.

The site works pretty simply. Log on with the iOS device you wish to jailbreak and follow the onsite instructions to forgo Apple's iOS and install Cydia. Supported devices for jailbreakme.com:

iPad 1: 4.3 through 4.3.3 iPad 2: 4.3.3 iPhone 3GS: 4.3 … Read more