Apple is expected to give us a sneak peek at iOS 6 during its Worldwide Developers Conference this June, and after its announcement, the company is likely to issue the first beta to registered developers. Until then, no one knows what iOS 6 will have in store for us, but that isn’t preventing hackers from making progress on its jailbreak.
They haven’t even released the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 yet — though it’s expected to go live very shortly — and already Pod2g and his team “have a part” of the jailbreak for Apple’s next-generation iOS operating system.
In a recent interview with Softpedia, Pod2g said:
We won’t give up on jailbreaking iOS devices because this is too important for us and we already have a part of the jailbreak for iOS 6 and we will be ready right on time for it.
We will not give you the exact recipe, but we have other exploits that we won’t release at any time. This is our secret. It allows us to inject stuff into new devices and to start dumping the memory. When we have the dumps, we look at different ways of finding the vulnerability.
This is terrific news if you’re a jailbreaker, but it won’t mean an iOS 6 jailbreak is ready for the official release of the iOS 6 firmware itself. Pod2g also revealed how he and his team work together to efficiently track down vulnerabilities in Apple’s source code — only after the final, public release has dropped:
Each member of the team works differently and this usually leads to finding vulnerabilities quickly. We find them in one month or two and then we start exploiting them. We start this process only when the final version of the system is released.
That’s why we always have a delay after the release to do a jailbreak. Because we need to be assured that what we do will work for sure, that they don’t fix it in the beta 3 or beta 4, so we start only when the release is here.
Although there won’t be an iOS 6 jailbreak the day iOS 6 is released, then, we shouldn’t be waiting too long for it.
Source: Softpedia
Via: Macmixing
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