After 24 hours of the iPad’s official release, the “usual suspects” already gained root access to iPad. Jailbreak is a method of hacking an iPhone, iPod, iPad to install non-Apple-approved programs and run system hacks.
First the iPhone jailbreaker MuscleNerd used a port of “Spirit” jailbreak by Comex which exploits a bug found in iPhone OS 3.1.3 and now on iPad/iPhone OS 3.2. He gained root access on the iPad which this showed that the iPad can been easily jailbreak.
After 4-5 days, GeoHot revealed some pictures in his twitter showing verbose mode running on his iPad.Verbose mode shows everything that iPad is doing on bootup. After doing this he posted a new picture where he managed to install blackra1n and Cydia to iPad.
Jailbreak methods are rising exponentially and as we can see Apple doesn’t care to patch the “holes” of the OS. Also and iphone OS 4.0 in less than a week has been jailbreak which this shows that the “holes” are still open. iPad will have multitasking earlier than Steve Jobs would want to after all..
Resources:
1) http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10472184-1.html
2) http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/04/ipad-spirit-jailbreak-demonstrated-by-musclenerd-now-it-reall/
3) http://www.pmptoday.com/2010/04/04/ipad-spirit-jailbreak-video-demo-released/
4) http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2010/04/09/ipad-jailbreak-blackra1n/
