iOS 7 Jailbreak

sand_man said:
Very handy although doesn't work too well on the iPad as yet.
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Seems to be working on iPhone 5.

Looks like this may convince me to upgrade my iPad 2 to iOS 7. Was hanging onto XBMC support provided by JB.
 
morkhans said:
Seems to be working on iPhone 5.

Looks like this may convince me to upgrade my iPad 2 to iOS 7. Was hanging onto XBMC support provided by JB.
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Just remember the Wi-Fi iPad 2 can't yet be jailbroken and XBMC does work on iOS 7.
 
Meh... Jailbroke my 5s and cant find anything of interest. But from what i read nothing works on the 5s
 
I've waited months now, why must I have the one device not yet compatible.
 
To be fair we should all still be waiting. This JB is premature and when 7.1 drops we might be back to playing the "stuck on a lower firmware version" game.

I've tested the 7.1 beta 2 on my ipad 4 and it is noticeably better than 7.0.4 so it would be a shame not to be able to upgrade.
 
People are highly upset, this jailbreak release was a big fail in my opinion, the devs need to start communicating.

From pod2g's twitter:

"Nice! @winocm and @iH8sn0w burnt a highly valuable root exploit that would have worked for future iOS versions for a stupid 6.1.5 jailbreak."

"Probably that you don't understand when I say highly valuable. It's something jailbreakers refused to use for years. Was found by @comex..."

pimskeks twitter:

".@pod2g @comex and they have two other invaluable exploits that could have been used instead :("
 
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Soul Assassin said:
People are highly upset, this jailbreak release was a big fail in my opinion, the devs need to start communicating.

From pod2g's twitter:

"Nice! @winocm and @iH8sn0w burnt a highly valuable root exploit that would have worked for future iOS versions for a stupid 6.1.5 jailbreak."

"Probably that you don't understand when I say highly valuable. It's something jailbreakers refused to use for years. Was found by @comex..."

pimskeks twitter:

".@pod2g @comex and they have two other invaluable exploits that could have been used instead :("
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This potentially does not bode well for future JBs, as there must have been a good reason why @comex and others had chosen not to use this exploit i.e. It could be a common thread that once pulled will make it far more difficult to find future exploits.
 
They even had two other usable exploits and they go and use one people have kept secret for years for a outdated version of iOS.
 
Soul Assassin said:
They even had two other usable exploits and they go and use one people have kept secret for years for a outdated version of iOS.
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Geez, it certainly is confirmed to be a vital thread.

According to @comex, though the exploit burned is valuable, it does not completely negate the ability to create future jailbreaks. According to the former jailbreak developer, "it makes things more difficult, but not impossible."

To that @pod2g added,

"Implications are that it'll make life of jailbreakers even harder for future iOS jailbreak developments. And I suppose that we'll never find another root execution and injection exploit of this kind in the future. Basically, it allows files to be made available in the device file system (injection) and allows to execute code as root. For example, we could setup afc2 on new iOS versions to play with the file system and find vulnerabilities."

This exploit, along with some others, was the same one @chpwn used last fall when he produced the infamous iOS 6 failbreak, which prematurely raised the community's hopes. In seeing the value that this particular exploit holds, I asked Cyril if a downgrade tool was in the works, or if by chance, Apple doesn't patch the exploit in 7.1, would the evad3rs be releasing an iOS 7.1 jailbreak using it.

Here is how he replied.

"A downgrade tool is a completely different story. It requires breaking the boot chain of trust."

As to a possible iOS 7.1 jailbreak, this was his response.

"It depends on what Apple patches ... let's say we'd want to burn it for iOS 7.1, we would also need a unsigned code execution vulnerability, a kernel exploit, and a way to stick that at boot."

To that he added,

"But even if we still had that injection and root stuff, not sure that we would release it, because of its value."

To emphasize just how valuable the exploit is, @pod2g takes his explanation a bit further.

"A jailbreak is a whole chain of exploits ... that exploit of @comex's that we did not want to burn in evasi0n7 [would require] 5 vulnerabilities to do the same thing. That's why it is so valuable. The fact that Apple did not patched it in years also is important. It means that it is probably the last thing you'd like to burn when there's nothing remaining."
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