A few years ago, there was a website called Jailbreakme.com that enabled you to jailbreak your iPhone without iTunes, by just visiting a web site. But it stopped working with one of the OS updates, so people forgot about it. Well, it’s back. I’ve actually been waiting to jailbreak my new iPhone 4 and for an iOS 4 jailbreak for my old iPhone 3GS, but after fiddling around with downloading big ipsw files from sketchy websites only to find they didn’t work, I decided to wait for an easier option.I’m glad I waited. I doubt that the re-launch of Jailbreakme.com has anything to do with the recent ruling that Jailbreaking is legal in the US, but the fact that there’s such an easy jailbreak for every iDevice now, and the fact that you’re officially not a criminal if you use it (though I’m sure that Apple Store geniuses will treat you like one if you walk in with a jailbroken iPhone) means that there are going to be a lot of jailbroken iPhones out there.
It works like this: you go to jailbreakme.com, you initiate the jailbreak by sliding a slider like the one you use to answer a phone call, then you see this:
Then your iPhone is jailbroken. I love it.
I just get empty screen
Did you update to 4.0.1 or newer
the first thing in the faq
Firstly, don’t update past 4.0.1, the last firmware JailbreakMe supports.
Um… what does that mean.. really? The latest firmware is 4.01, so – unless you have a developer phone, you aren’t going to have gone “past” 4.01. If you mean, “don’t install 4.01, stay at 4.00”, that is extremely badly worded. By definition, it implies not to go *past* 4.01, but does not exclude 4.01 from that statement. I’m confused, and I don’t even *want* to jailbreak my iPhone, because it is already factory unlocked by my provider O2 UK and my contract is up (beginning of June) and I can move to Orange or 3 now (Looking at the charts for data charges on another story – 3 UK would seem to be best, then Orange UK.)
Edited 2010-08-02 08:59 UTC
There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with that sentence to me, this way it’s good for the ages.
Picture someone, searching google perhaps, who stumbles onto this thread in the future. When the firmware will be updated past 4.01. This sentence doesn’t look so dumb now does it
What else can they execute on the device by you just visiting a website? I think that although a jail break is a very good thing, being able to do it from a browser, which should be just to view content, is a sign of a significant security issue.
Yeah, really. We’ve heard an endless stream of BS about how the iOS restrictions are “for your own good”, and that all sorts of horrible things would happen without them. Yet those restrictions can be bypassed by simply visiting a website!!! Nothing funnier than watching Apple fanboys have their talking points undermined by Apple itself.
In a properly-designed OS, something like that should not even be possible. And when the Apple apologists come out in force, you can bet they’ll conveniently gloss over that “minor” detail.
What, you mean like Android?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10162929-83.html
Well done for quoting an article that is nearly 18 months old.
All that links shows is that the security track record of the wide-open, free-for-all Android OS is just as bad (at WORST) as the locked-down, restrictive iOS. Despite the fact that iOS’s restrictions supposedly make it more secure, at least according to Apple and their apologists.
That leaves only two reasonable conclusions. A) The “security” justification for iOS restrictions is complete BS. Or B) that without the restrictions in place, iOS is about as “secure” an unpatched, pre-SP copy of WinXP running IE6; in other words, a formalized version of “security through obscurity”.
Take your pick.
The iOS restrictions make it much less likely that the apps you install are going to contain malware and/or try to upload your data to some random server. I don’t think that the fact that an exploit exists elsewhere in the OS changes this at all. And anyway, if you want to install apps from outside sources on iOS, jailbreaking is legal now (and quite simple to do), so have at it and stop yer bitching already.
Awesome troll post! There’s no need to drag the “Apple Fanboy” BS into this thread, though the security concern is valid. Just because the OS is locked down and requires an approval for entrance into the app store doesn’t mean there aren’t going to be vulnerabilities.
That’s like saying “Ha, it’s supposed to be a firewall, yet someone found a vulnerability and got in. Losers.”
Apple isn’t perfect. Cisco isn’t perfect. Untangle isn’t perfect. What’s the old saying? “Shit happens”.
At the Blackhat conference someone broke into a fresh install of Ubuntu. Does that mean Ubuntu is inherently horrible now?
I have a 3GS with 4.0.1 and the install worked fine.
Cydia appears to be timing out over the last couple of days, even with my prior jailbroken iPad, but I was able to load Winterboard and a couple of themes so far …
-Tram
I’m not sure why you are modded down just for reporting a successful jailbreaking (I assume to refute the earlier poster who said his 3GS was stuck). The entire article is about jailbreaking, after all.
On that note, my 2nd gen iPod touch MC model with iOS 4.0.0 is now jailbroken. A tip for anyone out there doing this: MobileTerminal from Cydia is not working, but you can download the unstable package from the Google Code page hosting the project, and put it in your /Applications folder on your iDevice using SFTP or SCP. Make sure you overwrite the old terminal.app with the new one instead of deleting the old one; for some reason it only works right by doing it this way.
I can happily say I now have an iPod touch that can go online anywhere I go, via bluetooth tethering through my cellphone. The app for that is called iBluever and it works flawlessly (for me anyway; I’m on T-Mobile, the most tether-friendly carrier in the US).
My question is, is this a real security issue? It seems too easy to take over your phone with a simple web app.
From what I’ve read briefly, it’s using a vulnerability in Safari on the Iphone.
Before trying this directly on the phone, I tried it on my iPod touch (3G -albeit being an 8GB one is really a 2G, so it doesn’t even have multitasking within iOS 4.0).
It wouldn’t pop any error after sliding the bar, still the background would be the only thing left there.
Tried leaving it on, see of something was downloading, but it actually wasnt.
Can I assume this, well, vulnerability iPhone only?
Since I can’t edit my comment, I have to post a new one.
I tested again, the site reported the installar crashed, but now it went through just fine.
Performance has not degraded any little bit, wich is something that surprises me.
Anyone experiencing the same?
It took me about ten times getting that screen before it finally went through. Keep trying.
I would be curious to know the coverage of iOS device that are vulnerable to this exploit, providing the guiding anyone to the payload page is quite simple.
this could turn iphone device into a not so powerful botnet (that is mostly on and more stealthy, because there is no easy way of viewing running process on an iphone).
Yay!! I’ve been waiting for this one!
I like the jailbreaking spirit.
I just saw other article about Jailbreaking for iPad from aneesoft. some people who want to know more can read it.
http://www.aneesoft.com/tutorials/ipad/jailbreak-for-ipad.html