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Apple IOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak is shown off
MAKER OF SHINY TOYS Apple is about to have its IOS 5.0.1 operating system jailbroken, if a demonstration video is to be believed.
Apple's IOS 5.0.1 is the latest version of Apple's operating system that runs on Iphones and Ipads using the firm's A4 and A5 chips. The untethered jailbreak of IOS 5.0.1 allows users to load applications that are not on Apple's App Store, giving users access to a host of useful applications that Apple's censors deem unacceptable.
Apple's tightly regulated App Store is often cited as one of the reasons why few IOS security breaches have occurred. However by stifling its users' freedom of choice, Apple has also created an opportunity for developers to devise ways to bypass its authoritarian control through jailbreaking.
In the video that was taken on Friday, an Iphone 4S running IOS 5.0.1 is shown to have the 'unofficial' App Store Cydia running, along with various Apple services including Siri still functioning. The Iphone 4S is shown to reboot without needing to be attached to a computer.
Dustin Howett, the person credited with shooting the video, did not give details on how the untethered jailbreak is actually done.
Based on Howett's video, we expect that this jailbreak for Apple's IOS 5.0.1 will tip up somewhere in a matter of days. µ
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For those of you surprised, if any of you have a history reading the Inquirer, you'll know this particular author isn't especially well known for journalistic integrity, with a poor regard for unbiased or accurate information. The only credit he'll get is that he managed to be the first writer here to bring this topic up so it doesn't say much for the rest. Was the Inquirer bought by Yahoo? :P
You commentards are fuggin morons.
You think you know everything, but then don't actually read what your whining about.
The article says 5.0.1 for the 4S and Ipad2 (A5) chips. It doesn't exist yet. We've been waiting for ages. L2read and L2internets.
Come on people! If you don't have any news don't write old news...
agree with David "instead of wanking thru all holiday season, when no single news has been published, you should at least check what happened in a REAL w00rld."
tsk, tsk, tsk
this is old, and only latest devices are waiting for untethered injection.
instead of wanking thru all holiday season, when no single news has been published, you should at least check what happened in a REAL w00rld.
Wow its good to see Apples doing this operating system because it will enable the user to perform many operation on the ipad like normal laptop
The A5 chip i.e. Iphone4S and Ipad are not jailbroken on IOS 5. The A4 jailbreak has been out 2-3 weeks.
The exciting news is that Iphone4S owners will be able to jailbreak soon.
Theres no error in dates just the article was no that accurate.
There is currently no A5 (iPhone 4S, iPad 2 jailbreak.) the demo video clearly shows that he is using a 4S with Cydia. So while the jailbreak for the iPhone 4 on 5.0.1 may have been out for a while, seeing the 4S jail broken is very exciting.
The pod2g jailbreak we've been using for the last few weeks is for the A4 processor devices - this shows the iPhone 4S and iPod2 based A5 processor is now supported ;)
...although to be fair this should have been explained in the article.
I agree.
I've been running the untethered jailbreak for 2 weeks now. I wonder if anyone did the research on this one.
Maybe this Dustin Howitt character that's credited for taping the J/B running is just lonely and wants some recognition.
You do realize that the untethered jailbreak for 5.0.1 is two weeks old, right?