Filed under: iPod Family
Breaking: iPod touch root read access achieved
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Steve Lang said 8:03PM on 10-08-2007
woohoo!
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fraggle said 8:08PM on 10-08-2007
An image here..
http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=10373
Fraggle
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R031E5 said 8:23PM on 10-08-2007
Yaaay! Kudos to the iPhone Dev Team! Please consider donating
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yacoub said 8:29PM on 10-08-2007
WOOOHOOO!!! Can't wait to get Notes.app and fully-functional Calendar on it :D
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Anthony said 8:29PM on 10-08-2007
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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CJ said 8:53PM on 10-08-2007
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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Kirk said 8:37PM on 10-08-2007
Great news! Thanks for your hard work Dev Team!
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a ham sandwich said 8:43PM on 10-08-2007
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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Matt H said 10:30PM on 10-08-2007
Holy cow,i'm excited.
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darkarchives said 10:35PM on 10-08-2007
Finally, I was hoping the iphone hack would lead to an itouch updated jailbreak post.
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nick said 9:16PM on 10-08-2007
Anthony unlike the iphone after its hacked there is no reason to update it any further.
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ZinkDifferent said 9:46PM on 10-08-2007
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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koreyel said 10:31PM on 10-08-2007
Great going Cats!
Poor little Stevie Mouse.
Poor little ATT rat Randall Stephenson.
I am crying in my cream for the both of you.
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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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iPodGuru said 1:18PM on 10-09-2007
Can't wait to get Notes.app and fully-functional Calendar on it http://www.ipod-vibez.com
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tomjennings83 said 10:37PM on 10-08-2007
so if the ipod is hacked you can put apps on it?
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Distorted Loop said 10:38PM on 10-08-2007
#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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phadk217 said 10:42PM on 10-08-2007
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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macFabri said 10:55PM on 10-08-2007
Very nice guys! very nice!
>> Did you heard that Steve ? like old days huh ?
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rick said 11:33PM on 10-08-2007
hey
on a 1.1.1 new iphone
ya'll r working on unlocking this version
or not?
*crying*
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Steve Lang said 11:42PM on 10-08-2007
@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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