iPhone OS 4.0: An In-depth Look at the Jailbreak Situation
Jailbreaking the iPhone has always been crucial, giving you access to a whole set of features, allowing you to install tons of useful apps which otherwise wouldn’t have been possible, and most importantly, it also allows you to unlock your phone so that you can use it with any carrier. Apple of course patches all these loopholes in every new version of its OS which makes jailbreaking harder. But sooner or later, hackers have always managed to find new exploits which jailbreaks the iPhone on the latest firmware.
We can’t say for sure what the new iPhone 4.0 OS would be like, but we’ll know soon as it is set to be unveiled tomorrow at an event, tagged as “Get a sneak peak into the future of iPhone OS”. According to different sources, it does boast pretty neat features like Expose-like multitasking, and more. But at the same time, Apple is planning to raise the security bar, like always, we’re quite sure that Apple will try and patch all the possible known exploits to make jailbreaking the iPhone OS 4.0 a bit tough, not impossible though.
Spirit, the new userland untethered jailbreak, which managed to jailbreak iPhone 3.2 on iPad within 24 hours of its launch no doubt is the tool everyone is looking forward to, along with the solution which geohot has already demonstrated. The infamous iPhone Dev Team is also said to have an exploit (given to them by Sherif Hashim) which can unlock the latest 05.12.01 baseband.
