'We won't ever charge for jailbreaking, that is a bad idea,' Cyril said. The amount of work and sleepless nights involved in jailbreaking won't result in paid jailbreaks in the future, the hackers promised. 'It is free security research, and security research is not cheap, it is expensive,' he said. 'Apple hasn't sent us as much as a cease-and-desist,' Wang said, adding that he is not worried that Apple will try to stop them.Īpple should be happy with the jailbreaks, Bassen said, emphasizing that there is a lot of research that goes into jailbreaking an iOS device, which Apple otherwise would have to pay for. 'There is a good chance we will use one of them,' Bassen said.Īpple has never approached the hackers to confront them with the jailbreaks, they said, adding that it would be interesting to know what Apple thinks of their work. 'We are actually not working on that,' Bassen said, adding that 'it is always good to have an exploit in the drawer,' hinting that they have other jailbreaking methods lined up that can be tried on the next version of iOS. They denied rumors that they have already started working on an iOS 6 jailbreak. The jailbreakers - who met each other in person for the first time during the conference - expect that a beta version of iOS 6 will become available soon. I think they will wait for iOS 6,' said Cyril. But I'm not sure they will release a new version of iOS just for this. 'Of course, they are going to patch things. The jailbreakers don't expect that Apple will roll out a quick fix for the latest iOS hack. In the past, the jailbreaks were downloaded about half a million times, but that number is increasing, they added. He worked on the jailbreak with jailbreakers Joshua Hill David Wang and Cyril, who did not provide his last name and is also known as jailbreakers expect their latest software to be downloaded about a million times, they said during a press conference following the announcement. 'It is available for download as soon as we manage to get the server back online,' said Bassen promised, who half jokingly added that they might have been hacked. When the new jailbreak was announced, the team's website was down.

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It is available for download at the team's website. The team announced the new jailbreak by mentioning 'one more thing,' the phrase former Apple CEO Steve Jobs often used to slyly announce major news at Apple press conferences.Ībsinthe 2.0 is the first untethered jailbreak for the third generation iPad, and can also be used for the iPhone 4S, 4 and 3GS, the iPad 2 and 1 and the iPod Touch. 'We actually managed to finish the untethered jailbreak for the 5.1.1 OS version,' said jailbreaker Nikias Bassen, also known by his Twitter handle at the end of two presentations the Jailbreak Dream Team gave during the conference.

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