iTunes 8.2 breaks jailbreaking

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(Credit: Apple, Inc.)

Apple recently released iTunes 8.2 and, as expected, the update disables jailbreaking. As a result, the iPhone Dev Team issued a warning to users about updating:

This update is one of those that incidentally breaks QuickPwn and PwnageTool. It doesn't seem like an anti-jailbreak. But nonetheless, it will break your ability to re-run QuickPwn or PwnageTool's dfu-entry.

The iPhone Dev Team has a fix planned, but it will not be available until Apple publicly releases Firmware 3.0.

Topics:: News

Tags:: iPhone,; Apple,; iTunes,; 8.2,; jailbreaking,; broken

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by BigJayDogg3 June 4, 2009 12:46 PM PDT

Apple is really getting irritating with their "incidental" jailbreak breaks.

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by Robb1068 June 4, 2009 2:44 PM PDT: By all means yes! Apple should only release software when they've checked in with the hacker community. Good call.


by zeroshadow96 June 4, 2009 3:55 PM PDT: although apple always tries to block the jailbreaking process with iTunes, the iphone dev team has been trying to keep one step ahead, the ipod touch 2g had already been jailbroken, but there was hesitation to publicly release the jailbreak and let apple know that they are going to need to do some major work to the next iphone (be it firmware, or actual device) to stop them, so apple may have won this battle, but after firmware 3.0 comes out the iphone dev team will most likely find a work around; Reply to this comment


by lil-yankee June 4, 2009 6:37 PM PDT: Its easier to brake than to fix i always say, not to take away the credit; the dev team does an amazing job for us, it just what it is. In my opinion, apple doesnt want the dev team going anywhere, there are millions more iphones sold because of them. AT&T might want to have a word with the dev team, but not apple, as long as they do the software to run as smooth and well polished like it does now.
My mac almost got the automatic update to screw with my iphone, thank god i figured something like this would happen!!!!!; Reply to this comment

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