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Mobile Devices and Apps | Mobile O.S's => iPhone | iApps => Topic started by: javajolt on October 08, 2011, 05:53:51 PM
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Update: It turns out there’s no need to worry. The owner of the site has transferred ownership of the JailbreakMe.com domain to Saurik, the developer of the Cydia Store for jailbroken iOS apps and the guy who has been hosting the JailbreakMe website all along.
Up until recently the easiest way to jailbreak most iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad models running iOS 4.3 through iOS 4.3.3 was to visit JailbreakMe.com in the mobile Safari browser on your device. From there you could tap a button and your device would download a corrupted PDF file which could insert code on your device and open up the operating system to let you install third party apps that aren’t available from the App Store or make other changes.
The web-based jailbreak utility doesn’t work with newer versions of iOS… at least not yet. But it’s still an impressive tool. Or it was until this morning when the domain was sold and the new owners took down the jailbreaking tool.
According to iPhone Dev Team member @musclenerd, the new home for the web-based jailbreak tools will be jailbreaks.me. Until that site comes online, the easiest way to jailbreak an iOS device is probably to use the latest version of redsn0w (http://blog.iphone-dev.org/redsn0w-iOS5) — which also supports newer versions of iOS including iOS 5 GM.