PwnageTool 4.1 for Mac OS X Has Been Released… And Jailbreaks AppleTVs

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Limera1n and greenpois0n have made it possible to jailbreak your iOS 4.1 device for almost a couple weeks now, but if you’re like me, any jailbreak not officially released by the iPhone Dev Team under the PwnageTool moniker is worth an eyebrow arch of circumspection.

Good news, then: the Dev Team have finally released PwnageTool 4.1 for Mac OS X, which used a combination of geohot’s contentious limera1n exploit, Comex’s PF kernetl exploit and the Dev Team’s own pwnage2 exploit.

The usual gaggle of iOS family devices are supported, including the iPad at version 3.2.2, the latest iPod Touch, the iPhone 4, the iPhone 3G, the iPhone 3Gs and the iPod Touch 3G. There’s one big new addition to the jailbreaking family, though: the second generation AppleTV. It’s early days yet for AppleTV jailbreaking, but if you’re comfortable in the command line, you can now execute commands on your AppleTV through ssh.

As usual, PwnageTool is free to download. You can grab the latest version here but as usual, remember to read the full release notes and back up your blobs in case of catastrophe.

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