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Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 just days away

Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 just days away

iOS jailbreakers who happen to own an iPhone 4S or iPad 2 may be going through withdrawal. After all, it’s been a while. The iPhone 4S has been locked down since its birth in October while the iPad 2 only had one brief summer fling with a jailbreak.

The dry spell, however, may be about to end. Hacker extraordinaire pod2g has announced that the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 (on devices running the A5 chip) should be available in a matter of days.

This comes after pod2g collaborated with a dream team of jailbreak hackers, including planetbeing and saurik. The crew combined their talents to escape the iOS “sandbox,” which means that they got permissions for the hack to access system-wide resources (the sandbox limits each app’s reach).

One caveat we’d add is to take statements like “it’s days away” with grains of salt. Developers generally don’t give ETAs due to the unpredictable nature of their work. pod2g is generous in giving us a rough estimate, but early this month he also said that it might be a week away (the next day he ran into problems). Until a hack like this is 100% complete, nobody can foresee how long it will take. Delays happen, so don’t be shocked if it takes longer.

With that said, an imminent release would be embraced by the iOS jailbreaking community. 2011 was a big win for the cat in the cat & mouse game of jailbreaking. Apple locked down the A5 chip so tightly that (aside from comex’s jailbreakme 3.0 hack last summer) the A6 chip may be released before the A5 is even cracked.

[Thanks: http://www.geek.com]

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