Limera1n Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.3 now available from iPhone dev team

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 6th, 2011)

Jailbreakers hesitant to update to iOS 4.3.3 can now do so without losing their ability to jailbreak. The iPhone dev team confirmed iOS 4.3.3 is still vulnerable to the untethered jailbreak exploit that @i0n1c created for 4.3.1. Released earlier this week, this version of iOS fixes the location ...

Redsn0w Jailbreak for iOS 4.1 now available

by Matt Tinsley (Nov 3rd, 2010)

If you're a fan of jailbreaking your iOS device, here's some good news for you. The iphone Dev-Team has released the latest version of redsn0w (0.9.6b2), allowing you to jailbreak your iOS 4.1 device (iPhone 4 / 3GS, iPad, 3rd and 4th generation iPod touch and 2nd generation Apple TV) into the land ...

Limera1n jailbreak tool now available for Mac

by Aron Trimble (Oct 15th, 2010)

When we originally mentioned jailbreak tool limera1n we also lamented the fact that Geohot had only released a version for Windows users. Now, the weeping and gnashing of teeth may come to an end. The limera1n homepage has been updated with a version for Mac OS X users. Both Windows and Mac users ...

Apple TV Hacks: Ports and wikis

by Erica Sadun (Oct 13th, 2010)

The Apple TV jailbreak community remains in a holding pattern. As yet, the greenp0ison and limera1n jailbreak tools do not install command-line/full file access to the box, a precondition for most kinds of application development. That doesn't mean there aren't interesting events going on, however. ...

Chronic Dev Team releases greenpois0n jailbreak tool

by Richard Gaywood (Oct 12th, 2010)

Via Twitter, MuscleNerd announced the release of the Chronic Dev Team's iOS4 jailbreaking tool, greenpois0n. This follows some controversy in the jailbreaking community, after George "geohot" Hotz released his limera1in jailbreak tool one day before greenpois0n was due to be released, using a ...

limera1n jailbreak released, greenpois0n jailbreak delayed

by Erica Sadun (Oct 9th, 2010)

Jailbreak limera1n was released today for 4.1 iDevice users in what appears to be a contentious situation in the hacking community. Windows-only, the new jailbreak is not expected to work with Apple TV or debut on Linux and OS X for a bit. The previously announced dev-team jailbreak, which was ...