Greenpois0n with SHAtter Exploit to Begin New Jailbreaking Era

It all started as fun for Hackers but it now has turned into probably the biggest community around the world who hack their iDevices. You are right, we are talking about Jailbreaking Apple’ Devices. It has progressed so far that Electronic Frontier Foundation declared it legal to jailbreak your devices under DMCA.

Apple has known to be possessive about their devices. They desire total control over their devices like iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad from carrier choice to app selection. Hackers have always resisted to Apple’s domineering behavior. It is always a cat and mouse game between Apple and Hackers where Hackers find vulnerabilities in Apple’s security architecture and exploit them to have full control over the device. This control allows Jailbreakers to run apps other than what’s available in iTunes, which is in supervision of Apple. In return, Apple always rushes to fix and patch the bugs being used by jailbreakers.

SHAtter exploit is the recent glorifying achievement by two prominent members of Chronic Dev Team, @p0sixninja and @pod2g. Chronic Dev team has been under criticism because they have not been able to release their announced GreenPois0n Jailbreak tool. It will be their first Jailbreak tool that was announced earlier this year. Finally, they have lived up to the expectations of users who believed them to be real iPhone Hackers. Here is the recent update about Greenpois0n by pod2g.

Hey, @p0sixninja ’s epic greenpois0n works well on iPhone 4G! (need to work on the framebuffer code tho ! ) http://twitpic.com/2nvrfm

SHAtter exploit will be embedded in Greenpois0n and will jailbreak all iDevices to date like iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, 3G, and iPad who couldn’t be jailbroken without a userland jailbreak which has a downside. Apple can easily fix Userland jailbreak in new iOS releases. On the other hand, Greenpois0n equipped with SHAtter exploit will be a long-term jailbreak. SHAtter exploit is a low-level bootrom vulnerability, which can’t be fixed without making changes in Hardware. There is no ETA but it should be only a matter of days now.