There have been lots of sites reporting that the iPhone4 has been Jailbroken, which yes is in-fact true. The first real information about an iPhone 4 Jailbreak came from @planetbeing who sent out this Tweet.
Think I’m the first one I know about to get a root shell (and SSH) on iPhone 4, using poor @comex’s code (since he has no iPhone 4). [Link to Tweet]
The next piece of information was from @musclenerd from the iPhone Dev team.
Congrats to @comex for another userland JB http://is.gd/d5N6I <– hi-res Cydia via @planetbeing & @chpwniPhone4s [Link to Tweet]
Here is the screenshot of a Hi-Res Cydia in @musclenerd’s tweet and one from a root shell.
However, this doesn’t mean that you will be able to Jailbreak your iPhone 4 anytime soon. Why? Well it looks like the Jailbreak was successful for the iPhone hackers, however what is required cannot be distributed because it contains some Apple Code that would cause legal ramifications. The Jailbreak uses the same method as Spirit which seems to not been patched by Apple properly in the newest Firmware iOS4.
There was a couple of Tweets after all of this excitement from another iPhone hacker but he is not affiliated with the iPhone Dev team. His name is @p0sixninja and this is the Tweets I’m talking about.
@i_Enthusiast the jailbreak shown is a more of a stepping stone for us, it can’t be released because it includes some of apples software [Link to Tweet]
And one from @planetbeing regards when the possibility of the Jailbreak being available to the public.
Don’t want to speak for @comex, but afaik no one has breathed a word about release date and what we have right now is nowhere ready. [Link to Tweet]
With the release of iOS 4.0.1 and the current work that needs to be done for a Public Jailbreak, I don’t see this happening for well over a month. However, we’ve seen things happen in shorter time and this release will be one of the major highlights of the year for iPhone hacking.
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