They grow up so fast! The notorious Dev-Team has been keeping our iOS devices jailbroken and unlocked for a while now, including the latest iOS 4.3.1 untethered jailbreak unleashed to celebrate the third anniversary of their PwnageTool application.
The Dev-Team Blog announced in the wee hours of Monday morning that they have updated their jailbreak tools to tackle the latest iOS 4.3.1, which Apple pushed on March 25. While there have been tethered options floating around, the latest versions of the Dev-Team’s PwnageTool and redsn0w applications tap into a new untethered method.
“The 4.3.1 untether exploit comes courtesy of Stefan Esser (@i0n1c on twitter), a security researcher based in Germany,” the Dev-Team Blog explains. “Stefan has a long history of vulnerability research, and ironically his first contribution to the iPhone jailbreak community was improved security -- last year he beat Apple to the punch and implemented ASLR for jailbroken iPhones with his ‘antid0te’ framework. We’re happy to see that Stefan then turned his iPhone attention over to an untethered jailbreak exploit!”
Unfortunately, this untethered jailbreak won’t work on one key iOS device, which is the iPad 2 -- it’s strictly for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (GSM only), iPod touch third and fourth generation and the original iPad. The Dev-Team is also warning unlockers with older basebands to stay away from this jailbreak for now, since they have to update their ultrasn0w tool to fix some compatibility issues with iOS 4.3.1, which is still in progress.
The latest PwnageTool 4.3 arrives on the third anniversary of the popular application, which the Dev-Team notes was originally released for iPhone OS 1.1.4. Seems like an eternity ago, right?
If you want to take the leap into an iOS 4.3.1 untethered jailbreak and you don’t need the unlock, head over to The Dev-Team Blog to download the new PwnageTool 4.3 (Mac only) or redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 (Mac or Windows), which are available now.
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