It looks like iPod touch hacker Niacin has achieved read access to the iPod touch root. Following up on the iPhone jailbreak earlier today, this is another step forward into opening up both the iPhone and iPod touch for general read-write access and third party application support. More news as it develops.
Niacin has been working with Dre and the entire iPhone/iPod touch dev team to make this happen.
Update: Niacin confirms that the TIFF exploit exposes the root partition for both the iPhone and iPod touch.













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10-08-2007 @ 8:03PM
Steve Lang said...
woohoo!
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10-08-2007 @ 8:08PM
fraggle said...
An image here..
http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=10373
Fraggle
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10-08-2007 @ 8:23PM
R031E5 said...
Yaaay! Kudos to the iPhone Dev Team! Please consider donating
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10-08-2007 @ 8:29PM
yacoub said...
WOOOHOOO!!! Can't wait to get Notes.app and fully-functional Calendar on it :D
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10-08-2007 @ 8:29PM
Anthony said...
Please be intelligent enough to realize that you are hacking a media device (it's called the iPod, have you heard of it?) and not a PDA. So it will most likely break again. So no whining & crying when it happens (again). k?
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10-08-2007 @ 8:37PM
Kirk said...
Great news! Thanks for your hard work Dev Team!
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10-08-2007 @ 8:43PM
a ham sandwich said...
its great that they're making progress, but if their exploit is in the way that the touch reads tiff images, i fear that the hack is too easily broken by another apple update. ::cry::
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10-08-2007 @ 8:53PM
CJ said...
awesome job people! keep it coming! i don't really care if I can't update my ipod in the future if I can get apps on it!
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10-08-2007 @ 9:16PM
nick said...
Anthony unlike the iphone after its hacked there is no reason to update it any further.
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10-08-2007 @ 9:46PM
ZinkDifferent said...
This is cool news, and at least one of the obvious benefits of iPod Touch hacking is that there is no danger of losing the phone capabilities... :-)
(but remember, if for any reason your break your Touch, it's your own fault, and Apple owes you nothing!)
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10-08-2007 @ 10:30PM
Matt H said...
Holy cow,i'm excited.
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10-08-2007 @ 10:31PM
koreyel said...
Great going Cats!
Poor little Stevie Mouse.
Poor little ATT rat Randall Stephenson.
I am crying in my cream for the both of you.
Quote:
In June 2006, Ed Whitacre retired from AT&T, though he didn't leave empty-handed: He nabbed a $158 million retirement package and a pension that tops any other U.S. CEO. He's leaving the company to his hand-picked successor, Randall Stephenson, who's already an outspoken opponent of the free and open Internet.
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Quote source:
http://www.netrootsjournal.com/node/10
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10-08-2007 @ 10:35PM
darkarchives said...
Finally, I was hoping the iphone hack would lead to an itouch updated jailbreak post.
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10-08-2007 @ 10:37PM
tomjennings83 said...
so if the ipod is hacked you can put apps on it?
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10-08-2007 @ 10:38PM
Distorted Loop said...
#7's right. It won't be very long before Apple fixes a Safari flaw, and we'll be right back where we are, albeit at one firmware level higher.
Hat's off for you all hard working hackers, but Apple's surely already working on the fix for what really is a serious security flaw.
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10-08-2007 @ 10:42PM
phadk217 said...
hey guys I am new to this and just got an iPod Touch can anybody send me a link tutorial on how to even add the third party apps?? Thanks a lot
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10-08-2007 @ 10:55PM
macFabri said...
Very nice guys! very nice!
>> Did you heard that Steve ? like old days huh ?
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10-08-2007 @ 11:33PM
rick said...
hey
on a 1.1.1 new iphone
ya'll r working on unlocking this version
or not?
*crying*
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10-08-2007 @ 11:42PM
Steve Lang said...
@7- It doesn't really matter what the vulnerability is, Apple can easily patch it in an update anyway.
Maybe there's a chance Apple won't patch the exploit in the next update, it hasn't happened with every single iPhone update. (although it probably will at some point.)
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10-08-2007 @ 11:58PM
Vernal said...
W00t. Now maybe someone will be able to make the alarm clock work on this thing. So far apple hasn't been able to...
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