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New exploit discovered that makes iPhone 4S, iPad 3, iPad 2, iPad mini and iPod touch 5G Jailbreakable for life


Developers of the popular jailbreak tools such as p0sixspwn and Sn0wbreeze, iH8sn0w had tweeted that they had discovered a new iBoot exploit, that can make out those devices powered by A5(X) devices jailbreakable lifetime.

Apple's A5 and those A5X chips power the following iOS devices:

iPhone 4S
iPad 2, 3, *Mini
iPod touch *5G
Apple TV *3

Please note that the Apple have used a different type of A5 Chip on Apple TV 3, iPod touch 5G, iPad mini and the 32nm revision of the iPad 2. Meanwhile its not clear that the exploits are applicable for those devices that are listed {Apple TV 3, iPod touch 5G, iPad mini and the 32nm revision of the iPad 2}. Thankfully this might be more helpfull for the Apple TV 3, which was one difficult to find since its launch.

Description of iBoot from iphonewiki:

iBoot is Apple’s stage 2 bootloader for all of the devices. It runs what is known as Recovery Mode. It has an interactive interface which can be used over USB or serial.

iH8sn0w had clarified that this might not be an bootrom exploit but still a very powerfull iBoot exploit.


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