This week we landed in the home country of the consumer group Huawei among other electronics manufacturers. We mention Huawei due to the overall…
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.
