Mark Dalby

FORMER SONY PLAYSTATION 3 HACKER George Hotz, who uses the nym Geohot, has agreed to an Ipad 2 jailbreak challenge, according to a fellow hacker.

Iphone hacker Joshua Hill said on his Twitter account that he has challenged Hotz to “dump the Ipad 2 BootROM” before he can. Hill said Hotz accepted the challenge, and that the famous PS3 hacker “didn’t have an iPad yet but he’s getting one soon”.

You would think Hotz had enough of taking on mighty corporations after his dealings with Sony, which filed a lawsuit against him threatening to unleash fire and brimstone after he successfully hacked the Playstation 3. This legal dustup led to Anonymous attacks against Sony, with the litigation finally ending in a settlement last month.
Hack In The Box

News ≈ Packet Storm

Untethered iOS 4.3.1 jailbreak for iPhone iPad and iPod Touch is already out there. Most of you are enjoying a jailbroken device now. We have already covered all news and how to guide which includes Redsn0w 0.9.6 RC9, PwnageTool 4.3 or Sn0wbreeze 2.5 and Seas0nPass 4.3.1. If you are unaware, all these tools released by iPhone Dev Team and other hackers uses one exploit originally found by Stefan Esser known as @i0n1c on Twitter. So a big thank you to the real hero behind untethered iOS 4.3.1 jailbreak.

An Italian website has taken an interview of Stefan Esser which you can read below.
Hack In The Box

According to Apple the next version of the iPhone 3G and 3GS to be shipped out will have a modified boot rom which is reported to have been hardend against the 24kpwn exploit that so many cracking groups are using to jailbreak your phone (Blackr41n, Purpler4in, Devteam).

I actually find this pretty annoying, I’ve just shelled out for a brand new iPhone (which aint cheap) and I’ll damn well use it how I please!! But not to worry I have faith in “The Scene” to have this broken pretty quickly.

For those of us that already enjoy an unrestricted iPhone it is important that you DO NOT upgrade to the latest firmware.

Hopefully apple will learn that its better to work with these people than against them, Take android for instance, You can run multiple apps at once,  It had copy and paste out of the box and the only complaint I’ve heard is that of bad battery life.  But the next-gen batteries are out soon so that will clear itself up.

Anyway, I’ll make sure to update you guys as soon as the new boot-rom is cracked.

Cheers,

Mark