Teenager claims to have easy iPod Touch jailbreak
A 13-year-old hacker claims to have developed code that would let you put third-party applications on an iPod Touch without having to take a computer science class.
A simple iPod Touch jailbreak program is out that apparently lets you install third-party applications.
(Credit: Ina Fried/CNET News.com)
AriX sent us a press release Sunday promoting iJailbreak, an automated program that allows third-party applications to run on the iPod Touch. It doesn't work for the iPhone, and it's only available for iPod Touch owners who are using Intel-based Macs. I don't have an iPod Touch at my disposal right now, so I'm unable to test whether it actually works, but some users on MacRumors.com reported that it worked.
Ever since Apple released the 1.1.1 software update for both the iPhone and the iPod Touch in late September that broke older third-party application installers, hackers have been hard at work searching for a new way to bypass the restrictions. A preliminary jailbreaking application was released last week, but it required a great deal of expertise to get up and running. Erica Sadun, a writer for The Unofficial Apple Weblog, installed that iPod Touch jailbreak Friday evening but warned, "This is not ready for prime time, kids. Don't do this at home."
The iJailbreak program, however, is apparently designed for those who would like to put other applications on their iPod Touch but aren't crack coders. According to the press release, "the only user interaction required for iJailBreak to work is to restart the iPod Touch using the button on the top of the iPod. The application does the rest." AriX said he spent about nine hours writing a program in AppleScript that automatically does the scripting required to install the update released last week.He said there's a slight risk that the program could "brick" your iPod Touch, but it's pretty easy to restore an iPod Touch to the factory settings if something goes wrong. As we noted last week, we don't link to these kinds of programs, but it's called iJailBreak. That's iJailBreak. One more time, in case you missed it, iJailBreak.
If you've successfully installed this program, or if you can't get it to work, let us know in the comments below or drop me an e-mail at tom dot krazit at cnet dot com.
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applescript isnt exactly fun either.
me10minutes to hack the device. The best part is that the hack
allows you to enter dates in the calendar, making the touch a
useful pda.
If you can.
Post the news and let people make the decisions for themselves.
Sure, they could hack a Windows box with ease, but now Apple products are just as easy if not easier to hack.
Hmm. Could be interesting to see where this goes.
protects you from hackers. This is important to Apple. That's
why Apple has a security response team that responds to
matters of (actual) security. This however, is not security. What
you describe as "security" is actually DRM, which protects Apple's
contractual obligations from customer's hacks. You're not going
to see Apple employees crying over a hacked iPhone. Plus, the
people who work in security response at Apple have nothing to
do with this DRM stuff, and probably hate the stuff. There is no
correlation with cracking DRM and malicious hackers cracking
into your iPhone remotely. In fact, they should stop calling
iPhones unlockers "hackers" because it gives the false
impression that there is some connection here. Maybe
"modders" would be more appropriate.
I don't think the program is a virus or malware of any kind. It's a program to aid in installing 3rd party applications. I doubt the author would suggest downloading the software if it was malicious.
Furthermore, I think you are confusing hacker with cracker. They are totally 2 different things. Cracker = one who gains unauthorized access to computers and hacker = someone who creates software/code/ect. without skill/design.
Next time, don't just read the title but read the whole article.
Still brilliant, but not quite the David and Goliath story that this is being hyped as.
broken by an impending update. And then they will all cry and
moan about how they didn't know what they were doing was
against their warrantees. It's just going to be a bunch of little kids
and immature adults not willing to take responsibility for their
actions.
Just like the iPhone...
gas powered car and "retooling" it to run diesel. Start the car up,
a big black puff of smoke comes out, and it's now a nice shiny
2000 pound brick of steel, or aluminum or what ever.... then go
crying to the dealer screaming, MY CAR WONT RUN THE WAY I
WANT IT TO!!!! I want my car to run on diesel!!!
well, sir it's not designed to do that...
WELL I BOUGHT IT AND I WANT IT TO, ...
um, sorry sir, it doesn't work that way. If you do that, it will
probably blow black smoke and not work anymore.
WELL I AM NOT GOING TO DANCE TO YOUR TUNE MR. DEALER,
ITS MY CAR AND I WANT IT TO RUN.... AND RUN THE WAY I
WANT IT TO.... I AM GOING TO SUE YOU FOR NOT LETTING ME
BE ABLE TO RUIN MY OWN CAR!!!!
BLAH BLAH BLAH....
Best bet, just avoid Mac and MS based products.
Yeah I'm one of those guys that uses the other OS, and no its not that big a deal, well yeah it is, I'm free :)
When Apple gets around to fixing the TIFF buffer overflow, this exploit will stop working.
Then everyone will probably condemn Apple for doing that just to thwart iJailBreak.
Apple fans have always touted their security...mostly because hackers didn't pay attention to them. But now with their increased popularity they are discovering it's not so easy to be the popular kid on the block. Hackers are going to increasingly focus on Macs...and win.
Welcome to the real world Mr. Jobs.
Still wondering why Windows Server and IIS get exploited way more then Apache, even though Apache is the top dog...
Now. Give us a 32G iTouch, dammit!
tsk.. tsk.. Those Apple T.V. ads have just become even more obscenely ironic.
Given that, there will always be missing features. There will always be something that people want in a device that isn't in there.
I found a link to his jailbreak application at
http://www.ipodjailbreak.com and it worked no problem.
But that Apple phone gets simply too much publicity from within the IT community. Just like a lousy boyfriend, it is not ALL THAT.
I guess the amount of news space is just a reflection of the good job done by the marketing department at Apple.
But if you REALLY want to be able to hack and customize your phone, get a Neo 1973 from openmoko .com instead.
- Help would be greatly appreciated.
- by rasikaclouded October 20, 2007 11:58 AM PDT
- I attempted to jailbreak my iPod Touch (16 GB), however it failed, how surprising, and I'm now unable to restore my iPod Touch due to error (-18), and my iPod itself is telling me that with no songs or videos currently on it, it only contains 300 MB or memory. I'm at a complete loss, having no previous speculation of jailbreaking. If I am able to fix this, I don't plan on attempting to do it again. Does anyone know how to successfully restore my iPod Touch? Any hints or solutions would be appreciated significanlty. Thanks!
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- by skytahlon October 26, 2007 7:24 PM PDT
- 1. Launch iTunes.
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Showing 1 of 2 pages (48 Comments)2. Turn iPhone off (hold down top power button & swipe when
prompted).
3. Hold down Home button.
4. Plug iPhone into USB/Dock cable.
5. iPhone shows a picture of a Dock cable being plugged into
the iTunes CD icon.
6. Release Home button.
(replace the word "iphone" with "ipod touch") :D I had the exact
same problem as you. And tried again to no avail :(