Hackers have been officially able to jailbreak the iPhone loaded with firmware v1.1.1 and his companion, the iPod Touch. Engadget says they have tested the hack and it works as described by the hackers.
But don’t hold your breath on this one, because the hack life expectancy is somehow very short. It will not survive very long because it’s based on a simple TIFF vulnerability found in the v1.1.1 firmware’s mobile Safari, which grants access to the file system. These types of doors can probably be closed down by Apple without major rework of iPhone’s OS.
You can bet that the next minor iPhone firmware release will close that door in a second. And from what I understand, hackers will then be back (yet again) to the drawing board.
This iPhone hack has not been released to the public yet, but you can expect it very soon. Being based on a similar firmware version, the iPod Touch can be hacked the same way. UPDATE: The iPhone hackers have released the hack and iPhoneAlley wrote an installation procedure. Be careful with this one, a freshly baked hack like this one, could serve you unexpected surprises!
Even though this hack won’t last, we can still say that it’s "Hackers 2 and Apple Engineers 1".
I’m wondering how long the hackers will be having fun with this and when they will give up and stop trying to hack the iPhone’s OS?
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October 10th, 2007 at 10:12 am
is there a way to download the 1.1.1 firmware with out attaching the ipod to it? I ask because I ordered my ipod touch but it won’t be here for a week or so and I don’t want Apple to fix this exploit and my only option for upgrade to be 1.1.2 or whatever and not be able to hack it. Email me at gadget@okinawan-adventure.com if you know where i can dload the 1.1.1 installer.
October 10th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
>I’m wondering how long the hackers will having fun with
> this and when they will give up and stop trying to hack
> the iPhone’s OS?
It seems to me that hackers will continue to do this as long as it is the necessary first step in making the iPhone work with non-AT+T SIM cards (including those of us in the rest of the world who couldn’t even sign up with AT+T if we wanted to).
October 16th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
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