Submitted by Anders Batten on
A mysterious and unknown hacker calling himself (herself?) "Dream JB" is promising to release an untethered iOS 6 jailbreak for the iPad mini, latest iPad and iPhone 5 on December 22. Dream JB is not associated with any known dev team, and has said he will deliver video proof of the jailbreak via Twitter on Wednesday. If true, the new untethered jailbreak will support all current Apple devices running iOS 6.0.1. This includes the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad 2 and beyond, iPad Mini, iPod Touch 4th generation and beyond.
Most jailbreakers only use jailbreaking tools from proven sources such as the iPhone DevTeam, or Absinthe creator pod2g. And not surprisingly, a large portion of the jailbreaking community is calling Dream JB's untethered jailbreak a scam. No one knows for sure if Dream JB will actually deliver a safe untethered iOS 6 jailbreak this December, but it will be interesting to see if his promised video actually materializes, and the jailbreaking community's reaction tomorrow.
From DreamJB.com:
"Proof will be posted both here and on my Twitter account on Wednesday. As far as the video that will be uploaded, it will be a single-take shot of the entire jailbreak process, including a restart and usage of the device to prove it is untethered. It will be uploaded as raw video straight from my camera to YouTube. So no edits in any form. Thank you all for your patience and support. Also, with the extremely high volume of tweets and over 4500 emails, I will try to address the public as I can. I ask that you read the FAQ before contacting me by email."
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
About the upcoming IOS6 jailbreak, here is a clue :
http://www.zdnet.com/mobile-pwn2own-iphone-4s-hacked-by-dutch-team-7000004498/
Regarding these dutch security researchers, I see a big moral concern.
How can they've found a security breach which impacts millions of cellphone and decide not to tell it to the manufacturer so that they could help in patching the breach and thus protecting millions of users personal data ? Not a professional approach as they run a security business and, this for sure, at least a selfish one.
At the end of the day, they've found a security breach... so what ? Unfortunately, they contribution and talent stops here.
About the upcoming IOS6 jailbreak WEBKIT exploit then, don't search further... it is based on this exploit and I wouldn't surprised that it has leaked from pwn2own's event.