iPod Touch Hacks
By dennis
January 20th, 2008 at 04:05am
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Although the new iPod Touch firmware v1.1.3 was released only this week, it seems like hackers have already managed to jailbreak it.
Jailbreak is the procedure that makes the iPod Touch writable and accessible for third party programs and other modifications.
According to a video posted online (if it’s not a fake — see for yourself below), the iPod Touch was indeed jailbreaked, since the Installer.app iPod Touch third party programs installer is working on what appears to be a v1.1.3 firmware iPod Touch.
Although, the creators of the jailbreak for some reason do not want to release it before Apple makes the Software Development Kit available next month — one theory is it’s since they’re afraid that Apple will relock the device along with the SDK release if the exploit was to be published now… That doesn’t really make much sense, does it?
iPod Touch v1.1.3 firmware jailbreaked
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By dennis
October 30th, 2007 at 11:38pm
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Our sister site iPhone World reports that AppSnapp, a “jailbreak” web application to be used with any iPod Touch device, was just released.
AppSnapp allows one to jailbreak his iPod Touch just by accessing the website, and also fixes a TIFF critical file exploit.
Initially all Apple iPod touch devices have a read-only mode enabled, which means one cannot install third party application on his iPod Touch. The AppSnapp iPodTouch “jailbreak” hack removes this restriction, therefore allowing you to install your favorite third party applications.
To access the hack point your iPod Touch Safari browser over to http://jailbreakme.com/ — but make sure you really understand the associated risks.
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By dennis
October 16th, 2007 at 01:28pm
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A thirteen year old programmer going by the nickname Arix released the first ever iPod Touch automated jailbreak program, called iJailBreak.
iJailBreak is a hack that will remove the read-only mode set by Apple, which will allow you to run native third party games and programs on the device.
The only user interaction required is for you to restart the iPod Touch. Works on Macintel OS X Tiger. PPC version is in the works. This program won’t work on Windows machines.
iJailBreak was based on Niacin and Dre’s Safari TIFF hack and iPHUC’s source.
Direct Download:
- iJailBreak v0.21 (2.52MB)
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By Patrick
October 10th, 2007 at 11:45pm
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Although Apple took extreme measures to lock out third party iPhone/iPod touch native programmers with the recent firmware v1.1.1, the #iPhone-dev iPhone programmer-hackers’ community has already cracked the “almost unbreakable” iPod Touch OSX file system; though it remains to be seen whether these iPod Touch jailbreak hacks work fully or not.
As it was mentioned before, Apple iPod Touch is essentially based on the same hardware and can run the same third party native programs as the Apple iPhone, but the recent iPod Touch firmware upgrade took this ability away.
After hundreds of hours of work invested into this, #iphone-dev folks came up with two ways to jailbreak the v1.1.1 firmware iPod Touch devices:
#1: (earlier released hack) is done via a TIFF image file exploit in current Safari version (and people don’t like hackers for some reason….). This was tested and proved to be working with Apple iPod Touch.
#2: (latest hack) is via a native program that one needs to upload onto his iPod Touch. We could not independently confirm whether this method works with all iPod Touch devices.
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By Patrick
October 9th, 2007 at 09:41pm
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Previously, the iPod Touch had been locked by the latest firmware update (v1.1.1) and sent all hacking attempts back to the beginning. Though the new gadget as well as the iPhone had gotten this hardening treatment, they’ve both been broken in short order, albeit by very specific hacks.
A part of the dev. community, Niacin, over at Toc2rta, has managed to break the latest firmware’s grip on hacks. Using a TIFF exploit, he’s managed to expose the root partition using the symlink hack.
Not only has this affected the iPhone, but the iPod Touch as well. This is the same type of hack that was shown over at our sister site iPhone World, by TUAW.
Thanks Hackintosh
Overall, despite the next patch (due to how the hack is done) reverting all this work to square one, it doesn’t seem to be keeping many people away.
Thanks: TUAW
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