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MuscleNerd Releases Spirit Jailbreak For iPad, iPhone OS 3.2
On Monday, MuscleNerd announced their successful jailbreak of the iPad and iPhone 3G devices called Spirit. A jailbreak is a way that developers actually “hack” into the operating system of the iPad tablet pc and remove the protection that forces owners to only go through the App Store for their software. A device that has a jailbreak applied will then be allowed to have their own software or bootleg songs and software without going through iTunes or Apple’s store. It also allows a device to be “unlocked” and usable outside of the mandatory AT&T carrier service. Jailbreaks are nothing new to the iPhone OS, the first version of the OS was cracked within a month. However, the fact that a new product like the iPad runs on the same operating system as … Read entire article »
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iPad Jailbreak Pre-Launch
Before it even hits the shelves, a teenage hacker claims he has the iPad jailbreak solution already. Young George Hotz, the first to jailbreak the iPhone and iTouch, thinks his solution will work on the iPad as soon as it is released. While Hotz is not claiming 100% jailbreak at this point, the iPad is a large extension of the iTouch and iPhone family, and this leads to having the same hacker holes that those did as well. What Hotz claims is to have an untethered jailbreak solution for the iPad. A tethered jailbreak involves hacking into your tablet pc’s operating system to “liberate” it from the bindings of Apple’s store and policies. Essentially, what Hotz has supplied in the past is a simple website that accesses certain functions of the iPhone’s … Read entire article »
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