The latest jailbreak tool was cloud based and called JailbreakMe. It was a userland jailbreak which was patched by Apple in iPhone 4.0.2 Firmware. Soon after, Apple has announced its major iPhone 4.1 upgrade since iPhone 4.0 firmware and it will hit iTunes on September 8. At the same time iOS 4.2 for iPad along with iPhone and iPod Touch was also announced to hit iDevices in November.
After some days, there will be two firmware which can’t be jailbroken i.e. iPhone 4.1 and iPhone 4.0.2. @comex, the father of userland jailbreaks has a bug for iOS 4.1 which will likely be existing in iPhone 4.0.2 as well but a way to exploit the bug is still uncertain. If @comex can’t succeed then what is the future of Jailbreaking?
GreenPois0n is the Future ?
At last, we will get hands on with GreenPois0n Jailbreak which is long due to be released by Chronic Dev team.
What is GreenPois0n ?
GreenPois0n is not a simple jailbreak tool rather it is a framework which can be used to build new jailbreak tools although GreenPois0n will behave as a framework after jailbreaking the iDevice. According to the Developer, GreenPois0n allows end users to jailbreak iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad while it enables Hackers to play with iDevice at lower level. The official description of GreenPois0n can be read Here.
GreenPois0n was announced back in March 2010 but it was never released. On different occasions, Chronic Dev Team couldn’t release GreenPois0n due to unavoidable developments.
Different Versions of GreenPois0n
As GreenPois0n is a toolkit, Chronic Dev team has cooked different flavors of GreenPois0n
- GreenPois0n Cyanide
- GreenPois0n Anthrax
- GreenPois0n Dioxin
- GreenPois0n Arsenic
What is the significance of GreenPois0n right now?
Apple had introduced new bootrom and iBoot in iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch around September 2009 and thus eliminating untethered exploits being used by Hackers to jailbreak iPhone and iPod Touch at that time. These exploits made the devices “Pwned4life” as iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G MC Models on any firmware are still jailbreakable. These hardware level changes also exist in iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G 3G. Thus we have to rely on userland jailbreaks.
Exploits have been found in new bootrom [tethered] and in iBoot [untethered] by Chronic Dev Team and GeoHot but they haven’t been released to date. GeoHot has almost left the jailbreak scenario although one appearance is due because He will formally say Good Bye to the community after releasing these exploits. In this regard, we are not sure when He will make it ra1n.
The only hope left is Chronic Dev Team which has also promised GreenPois0n since long. According to @p0sixninga, GreenPois0n was about to release but after discussing with iPhone Dev Team it was postponed in favor of Jailbreakme.
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