iOS 4.1 Jailbreak – Confirmed!

Whew – that was fast! It’s only just been made public in the past 24 hours, but iOS 4.1 has already been Jailbroken by ‘Chronic Dev Team‘.  They’ve managed to successfully find a ‘bootrom based exploit’ which can jailbreak any iOS device, including iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G and iPad.

Members of both the iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team confirmed this news on Twitter:

cpich3g: congrats to @pod2g for the latest exploit and also @p0sixninja who have been trying for months.

pod2g: iPhone 4G iBSS 4.0.1: iv=91f94e5d726a2d2f2c7ffad58d4f3b77 key=d05c3c40db40e738926f811b8b1314038d26096c4102461698a49098c47a3fe6

MuscleNerd: Crazy timing that @pod2g got latest exploit just as 4.1 went public (lots of work left…keep away from 4.1 for now!)

That latest exploit from @pod2g confirmed to work beyond iPhone4…also on at least iPad and yesterday’s iPod4G too

The interesting thing about this exploit is that Apple seemingly cannot patch it with a firmware update, but will require a new hardware revision with a new bootrom.

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