The Internet, The Web, is Sizzling with news of Untethered (A5 Processor) Jailbreak On iPhone 4S, iPad 2

21. January 2012 by admin.

I got an email at just 4:34 pm today, that’s an hour ago. For those that don’t know, other jailbreaks were already available for older iPhones and iPod Touches up to iPod Touch 4, but not for the new iPhone 4S and the iPad 2. iPhone 4S (and iPad 2???) uses a new A5 Processor … more powerful than the previous model Apple devices CPU’s. Somehow this thwarted the hacking or cracking (the exploiting) of the iOS Operating System. So users of the newer devices, wanting to jailbreak, had to cool their heels and wait … and wait.

News about the jailbreak from GreenPois0n tells that it was VERY DIFFICULT. Exploits within exploits … had to be done to accomplish it. The Mac OS X version of the program file required to perform the jailbreak was released first, causing the Windows PC crowd to pitch a bitch about it. But the group doing the exploit software, called Absinthe A5, program on Apple Computers under the Mac OS X operating system. So the Windows jailbreak crowd will have to wait for Absinthe A5 to be ported to the PC/Windows OS.

The GreenPois0n web site was swamped this evening … I was getting “unavailable” … and supposedly there is an Internet network link involved in the jailbreaking process that has caused problems for some people trying to do the jailbreak. So maybe we’ll have to wait a little longer until this cools down a bit to be able to jailbreak our iPhone 4S’s and iPad 2’s. The following is the supposedly official news from GreenPois0n:

Here’s the official post by GreenPoison;

Greetings, friends & jailbreakers!

We are well-aware of how very many of you, our faithful fans, have been waiting for months for this announcement, so – with no further ado, we are excited to unveil the newest addition to our GreenPois0n toolkit…
Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S & iPad 2 !

This release should come as no surprise to those of you who have been following pod2g’s iOS blog for the past few months. Earlier this week, you might have even wet your pants a little when you watched the video demonstration of today’s release (named Absinthe A5) and first witnessed our jailbreak working its magic to liberate both the iPhone 4S & iPad 2.

What you may not fully realize yet is just how hard the exploits in this Apple A5 jailbreak are working behind the scenes – and, though I mentioned it last week on my Twitter – what a glorious hacker’s wet dream the Absinthe A5 toolkit has ultimately evolved into!
Hacking the A5: Not Exactly a Walk in the Park

The ridiculously complex combination of exploits-within-exploits that make this iOS jailbreak possible have consumed thousands of hours of brain-power & effort from a legion of world-renowned hackers, several of whom have been working diligently on this project since the dual-core A5 processor was unveiled by Apple last March. Ten months ago, I myself was live tweeting from a tediously long line at the nearest Apple retail store, where I anxiously waited to become one of the world’s first owners (& hackers) of the newly-released iPad 2.

At that point, I don’t know if any iOS hacker anticipated how much the A5 chip would completely change the game & up the stakes. The endless war we fight to jailbreak has become more & more difficult with each new device released, and our recent battle against A5 only proved this further. After working for months with few tangible results, Chronic Dev hackers tried a new approach – we launched CDevReporter to accumulate all your devices’ crash reports, an invaluable source of information for iOS hacking & research. You answered our call-to-arms quickly & emphatically, sending us more than 10 million of these reports in less than a week. (Keep up the good work!)

Meanwhile, the iPhone 4S was released with resounding success – more than four million devices were sold in the first weekend alone. As a result, demand for an untethered A5 jailbreak grew exponentially overnight, and a mob-like mentality was adopted by many of the (usually courteous) Apple fan-kids. Suddenly, every iOS hacker found himself the target of constant clamoring – on Twitter, in our (& other) blog’s comments, in forums & tech news blurbs. Their message was loud & clear: “We want our new iPhones jailbroken, & we want it NOW!”
Introducing the 2012 iOS Hacking “Dream Team”

We finally admitted that the escalated obstacles presented by Apple’s new A5 processor would not likely be overcome by one individual or team – but all together, we should be more than able to conquer any challenges encountered. As such, a diverse group of iOS hackers all decided to set aside our personal goals & egos, relax our die-hard team loyalties, and pool our respective skill-sets, talents & exploits to form an iOS Super-Hacking “Dream Team.”

Numerous prominent iOS hackers contributed time & expertise to the project through their troubleshooting, brilliant obstacle-clearing ideas & other support. We’d like to extend special thanks to saurik & MuscleNerd, both core members of iPhone Dev Team.

Of the 4 hackers who deserve extra recognition & gratitude for completing the lion’s share of the research, development & programming of this jailbreak, 3 are members of Chronic Dev Team: myself (posixninja), pod2g & nikias. The fourth & most legendary member of our “Dream Team” is planetbeing, the globally-admired iOS hacker/developer responsible for initially porting both Linux & Android to the iPhone (among his many other contributions).

As to the amazingly innovative fusion of exploits used in this iOS jailbreak – we plan to save most of that discussion for a panel/presentation we hope to give at a conference later this year. If you want to learn more now, pod2g wrote an excellent blog post after the release of Corona, in which he describes in detail the userland & kernel exploits we used, both for the A4 iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak and as a starting point for this Absinthe A5 toolkit.

Help Advance our Ongoing iOS Research & Support the Future of Jailbreaks!
CONTRIBUTE HERE directly to Chronic Dev Team

Say “THANK YOU!” to Developers of this A5 Jailbreak for a Job Well Done!
CONTRIBUTE HERE to iOS Hacking “Dream Team”
Download GreenPois0n Absinthe Now

To jailbreak your iPhone 4S (running iOS 5.0 or either 4S version of 5.0.1**) and/or your iPad 2 (all Wi-Fi only, GSM & CDMA devices supported; must be running iOS 5.0.1**) – select one of the links below to download your Absinthe A5 untethered jailbreak. Simply unzip the file, then install on your iOS A5 mobile device with one click of a button! As always MacOSX version is being released first, and Windows and Linux versions will be released shortly after.

Windows » Coming Soon…

Mac OS X » GreenPois0n Absinthe v0.1.2-1

Linux » Coming Soon…

**NOTE: If you haven’t yet heeded the advice I gave weeks ago – before you take one step further, upgrade your firmware to iOS 5.0.1 NOW! (Unless you need an iPhone4s Unlock) Also, we don’t mean to beat you over the head with this warning, but please remember: you should not update to iOS 5.0.2 when it’s released, or you will lose your jailbreak! Bookmark our GreenPois0n blog now, and be the first to know the next time we advise our jailbreak users to safely update their iOS firmware.

As with all our previous GreenPois0n releases, should you run into any bugs in the A5 jailbreak, leave us a comment below or contact us on Twitter (via Chronic Dev Team, GreenPois0n, or directly to “Dream Team” hackers posixninja, pod2g or nikias). Even if we aren’t able to respond to your messages individually, we depend on all users to let us know about any issues you run into so that we can address them & fix the most-reported problems as quickly as possible.
Muchas Gracias

First & foremost, THANK YOU to all our loyal fans & readers for your enduring patience over the past several months. We’ve been toiling night & day in order to perform the serious hacking ninja magic required to develop the most advanced iPhone jailbreak yet – we only hope it was worth your wait! And as always, thank you for your never-ending support of Chronic Dev Team & all our GreenPois0n releases!

I also want to express my personal gratitude to:

saurik – for all your guidance & support, especially in helping us out of the sandbox, and for acting as administrator to the “Dream Team” donation fund;
Chronic-Dev, LLC – for hosting the web servers that will inevitably crash due to the sheer number of simultaneous download requests; and
finally & especially, the other “Dream Team” members – for all your expertise, dedication, cooperation & countless hours of hard work! It was a true pleasure to work closely with each of you, and without your contributions, this jailbreak would not have been possible.

Download Absinthe A5 Untethered Jailbreak Tool
Download Absinthe for Windows (coming soon)

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* Years ago … nobody had computers … except in Big Computer Centers. You paid for time sharing of such large computer systems. When Personal Computers came along it kind of broke that “Centralized” method of computing. There is a sort of ressurection of “centralized” computing and storage being pushed on the masses via “Cloud Computing” where the Internet is the Cloud but it really means centralized (not at your home or office) servers doing the storage of your files and in many cases doing some of the calculating (processing … CPU job.) A lot of people like myself thinks this is an attempt to make everyones computer back into a DUMB TERMINAL … only sending and receiving information but having no Horsepower locally. A lot of people like to have the power to do whatever they want with the Computing Horsepower being owned by them. In the Apple portable device crowd a similar kind of thing is going on. Apple wants to lock everyone down to only installing “Apps” (Application Programs) that they approve of … and that are available via their APP STORE and such infrastructure. * I don’t like that because they are denying me access to WiFi Scanning and Diagnostic Programs that I can use in my work. Its a censorship and “centralized control” kind of thing … somewhat akin to the old Central Computer thing. Your portable Apple Computer device is YOURS but in a way it’s not really. You can’t do what you want to do with it. In the Apple Doctrine this is supposed to protect the Mother Ship (them) and to protect us, the users, from unstable devices because of being able to freely install programs, apps, device drivers, etc. onto the Apple Portable Computing Devices.

Anyway, phewwwww!!!! Having said that, I have jailbroken an iPod Touch 4th Generation. The exploiting program for that was called RedSn0w. So I have seen first hand the ability to use another “repository” for APPs on a portable Apple Device. I could get my WiFi Tools and many other programs that were no available from the Apple “Matrix” described above.

[That’s all for now]

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Alan Spicer … reporting live from the Internet somewhere

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