Beta Beat: iPhone/iPod touch Jailbreak Beta test announced

how jail break my ipod touch 1.1.2(3B48b)

@ #79
why don't you go back to your little bubble wrapped existance and leave the rest of us REAL men & women to deal with things that you obviously are incapable of understanding. kthxbye

May I speak for the rest of us non-hacker types...and add to what dk has contributed.

How about all of these nerds accept the phone for what it is: a great device with many useful features that will gradually become even better--not through
the cat and mouse game that this hacking fiasco has become, but through continual software improvements that we can always rely on from Apple.

For goodness' sake, leave the phone alone, or buy a different device on an open platform! Not only have you polluted an otherwise useful blog, but you are delaying the updates by disrupting Apple's progress, I am sure of it. I am so very tired of reading
about the latest "state of the Jailbreak" from Erica Sadun.

For every aspiring rebel that champions the hacking cause (wannabe Apple programmers calling themselves a "dev" team--what a joke), the rest of us suffer as Apple works feverishly to close the latest loophole. That's so wasteful.

What killer apps can you not live without? If you want to play NES games that badly, get an emulator for your laptop. Better yet, get yourself an NES. While the FBI is not going to come crashing through your door (and that guy deserves ridicule for such outrageous claims), leave well enough alone. I have yet to see a cool/useful app that you guys have released, let alone one that you could keep on your phone for more than two weeks.

Bottom line: you idiots do more harm than good in the name of progress. Stop ruining the party for the rest of us.

Here is the link to do the hack for 1.1.1 Must be from iphone Safari browser .

http://www.toc2rta.com/

A question occurs to me:

If Apple were to open up 3rd-party app development on the iPhone and iPod touch, and provide an official SDK and all that, but with the condition that apps cannot go near the cell phone functionality except to pass phone numbers to OS X to place calls...would that be enough for the dev community? Apps that use the internet may be restricted to Wi-Fi only, but the tradeoff would be peace of mind for Apple, AT&T and trolls like DrunkDwarf — at least, unless I'm way off the mark and don't know anything.

As Cap'n Steve said, what they're worried about is poorly or maliciously written apps mucking up the cell network. Nothing an iPhone can do on the internet is any worse than whatever PCs and Macs have been doing for years. As long as devs agreed to play nice — and the quality of 3rd-party apps both on the desktop and mobile OS X platforms suggests they can and would — I see no reason why it couldn't be opened up. Sure, a few dickheads would always be around to try and find exploits, but at least legitimate developers wouldn't be lumped in with them and treated as such.

Or maybe my lack of technical savvy is leading me on impossible flights of fancy, who knows. :P

Does Itunes send anything to the Ipod upon request/connection? if so, couldnt you modify the files that it sends when the ipod goes into restoration mode to send a more advanced .app file then the ones you have been using that will run when user does ___? It's an idea, but not sure....

Is this hack real?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/10/iphone-and-ipod-touch-v1-1-1-full-jailbreak-tested-confirmed/

Don't want to rain on the parade here, but... This hack has now been widely reported as being 'confirmed', but yet I find no site with 'independent' confirmation. It seems to me that the only 'confirmation' is from the hacker niacin himself! Does this seem strange??? Even Erica admits she has never seen the hack in operation... Niacin (on his blog), claims that Engadget has 'confirmed', I don't see that they agree to this (maybe I'm missing something??)... Is this hack real?

What's the point of hackers actually spelling out exactly HOW they do something like jailbreak (as the announcement ultimately leads to Apple countering it) unless that is their aim - for the company (Apple here) to fix it?! I guess the true hope is that Apple will realise that w/o hackers and rogue developers actually being charitably informative (as the IPDT and others have been) there are always exploits they the company will miss that could bite them in the @$$ if used purely maliciously...so play nice with the hackers Apple and provide them with an OPEN SDK so they can become legit contributors to the development of the OS (mobile OS X in this case)....

What Sparks said.

I do disagree with one point- what's really the difference between using this TIFF exploit and a "real jailbreak method"? Any method that jailbreaks the device is a real method, and will be patched by Apple. It doesn't matter if it uses a TIFF exploit that could be used for more nefarious purposes, or if it uses some less accessible hole that can only be done through USB. Apple will still plug the hole in a future update anyway, on the basis that jailbreaking is like a gateway drug to more dangerous activities (SIM unlock.)