iOS 6.0 Jailbreak in progress, but far from ready

It’s been quiet on the jailbreak front. Apple’s latest, iOS 6 is a tough nut to crack but famed hacker Planetbeing, in conjunction with the legendary Pod2g (creator of the user-friendly iOS 5 jailbreaking tool, Absinthe) have made “nice progress” in regards to the momentous task.

Made some nice progress today with @pod2g. I think I’ll try to reward myself with a nap. 🙂

— planetbeing (@planetbeing) January 19, 2013

Pod2g shot right back with a high-five on twitter:

. @planetbeing oh yeah! 2 new vulnerabilities in a day, chance was with us. But we still miss that initial code execution for a public jb :/

— pod2g (@pod2g) January 19, 2013

The actual jailbreak though, is a ways off according to another member of team “let’s hack Apple”:

@fonfryer @pod2g @planetbeing yea, we’re still missing the initial code sign and on boot code sign

— Joshua Hill (@p0sixninja) January 20, 2013

 

Hackers have said that the iOS 6.0 jailbreak will most likely be released with the incoming iOS 6.1 update. The same hackers also heed against updating to iOS 6.1.