The iPhone 4 jailbreak has finally arrived through a Safari browser exploit that Jailbreakme.com takes advantage of. But don’t expect that chink in Apple’s armour to be around for long. Comex, the main brains behind the iPhone 4 jailbreak, has already predicted that Apple will be working hard to plug the hole…
On Twitter, Comex revealed that the iPhone 4 jailbreak relies on a bug in Safari and said he believes Apple will consider that a big issue: “They’ll consider it a remote security hole (which it is) – high priority.”
In the run up to releasing the iPhone 4 jailbreak, coders discovered Apple anti-tampering code nestled within iOS. It’s now sure to be hard at work on patching the hole that allows the current iPhone 4 jailbreak.
The iPhone 4 jailbreak doesn’t work on handsets running the iOS 4.1 beta and there’s a good chance that when Apple unleashes the full version it’ll come with code included to frustrate the jailbreakers.
The success of the current iPhone 4 jailbreak is only the latest twist in an ongoing battle between Apple and the hackers. We expect to see tales of bricked iPhones and closed loopholes when the next iOS 4 update arrives.
Let us know: have you taken the plunge and installed the iPhone 4 jailbreak? Or are you waiting to see how Apple responds before you do?
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