The iPad has only been on sale for less than three days, and already hackers have jailbroken it to get around Apple's restrictions.
MuscleNerd, a member of the iPhone Dev Team committed to hacking the iPhone OS, has jailbroken the iPad after just a day of tinkering. The hack gave him root access to the iPad and allowed him to install non-approved applications and to run apps simultaneously. It uses the same exploit employed to jailbreak the current OS 3.1.3 iPhone.
The fast hack was made possible by essentially using the Spirit jailbreak designed to open up the iPhone, according to MacNN. This uses a browser exploit to open up the OS.
The port is in the early stages, and there is no download for eager tinkerers yet, but, along with efforts by iPhone master hacker George Hotz, it wont be long before there is an easy, one-step hack that lets anyone gain the advantages MuscleNerd has demonstrated.
I've known about this exploit since the time of PurpleRa1n, Hotz said of the iPad jailbreak.
What is most interesting here, though, is that the iPad is running the newer 3.2 version of the iPhone OS, which means that Apples engineers haven't yet plugged the hole which allows this exploit. That may be because there simply wasn't time in the rush to get things finished for launch.
It may also be that, now the device is divorced from tightly bound AT&T contracts, Apple simply doesn't care. After all, this wont affect the target mainstream market at all. It could, however, provide a small boost to sales amongst the geeks who absolutely must have multitasking and non-Apple apps.
MuscleNerd, a member of the iPhone Dev Team committed to hacking the iPhone OS, has jailbroken the iPad after just a day of tinkering. The hack gave him root access to the iPad and allowed him to install non-approved applications and to run apps simultaneously. It uses the same exploit employed to jailbreak the current OS 3.1.3 iPhone.
The fast hack was made possible by essentially using the Spirit jailbreak designed to open up the iPhone, according to MacNN. This uses a browser exploit to open up the OS.
The port is in the early stages, and there is no download for eager tinkerers yet, but, along with efforts by iPhone master hacker George Hotz, it wont be long before there is an easy, one-step hack that lets anyone gain the advantages MuscleNerd has demonstrated.
I've known about this exploit since the time of PurpleRa1n, Hotz said of the iPad jailbreak.
What is most interesting here, though, is that the iPad is running the newer 3.2 version of the iPhone OS, which means that Apples engineers haven't yet plugged the hole which allows this exploit. That may be because there simply wasn't time in the rush to get things finished for launch.
It may also be that, now the device is divorced from tightly bound AT&T contracts, Apple simply doesn't care. After all, this wont affect the target mainstream market at all. It could, however, provide a small boost to sales amongst the geeks who absolutely must have multitasking and non-Apple apps.
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