This update will remove the Evasi0n jailbreak and it cannot be jailbroken using existing methods.
Nonetheless, close to 2 million people have used the tool to jailbreak their gadgets.
Whether it's legal to release tools for others to jailbreak has yet to be decided.
In fact, jailbreak enthusiasts have their own version of the App Store, called Cydia.
That makes the iOS-hacking app the fastest-adopted jailbreak software of all time, Freeman says.
He was also once indicted by a federal jury on conspiracy charges relating to a jailbreak (his alibi held).
These devices can be jailbroken using a tool called Redsn0w, although that jailbreak is for now a tethered one.
Unlike other iPhone tethering solutions, this method does not require you to jailbreak your iPhone, which can void your warranty.
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In fact, the jailbreakers say they have plenty more bugs in their back pockets, already waiting to jailbreak the next iPhone.
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Freeman also points out that anticipation for a jailbreak for the iPhone 5 had built for longer than for any previous phone.
The only devices running the new iOS 6 that you can jailbreak are the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and the iPod touch 4G.
To make matters worse, it is not yet clear whether it will be possible to jailbreak this release, or for that matter, future releases.
In fact, the only devices running the new iOS 6 that you can jailbreak are the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and the iPod touch 4G.
That means any user who updates to iOS 6.1.3 will lose the ability to jailbreak his or her phone for months or possibly years to come.
Speakers include Jay Freeman, the creator of Cydia, and the Chronic Dev Team, who developed Absinthe, the jailbreak of the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2.
Jailbreakers could then use the less expensive (and less ethically challenged) T-Mobile, or full-on jailbreak it to also download apps from non-Apple sources like Cydia.
We don't often jailbreak our iPhones to test apps, but a facial recognition unlock tool seemed a worthy excuse, so we gave it a shot.
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More than 300, 000 people have viewed the video of his demo in the past day and it has certainly gotten the attention of the jailbreak community.
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Remember when Sony sued Geohot and demanded that YouTube hand over the user info of all the folks who posted comments to Geohot's PS3 jailbreak video?
The five or so bugs used in Evasi0n, according to Wang, were relatively simple, and each only offered marginally more control over the device leading to a full-scale jailbreak.
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The director, Stuart Gordon, and his screenwriters (Steve Feinberg, Troy Neighbors, and Terry Curtis Fox) scatter funny touches and even some signs of warped intelligence throughout this futuristic jailbreak movie.
Earlier this month, renowned OS X and iOS hacker Charlie Miller explained why he believed that the latest Evasi0n jailbreak will be the last, and jailbreaking was at an end.
How many of you jailbreak your iPhone or iPad?
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Will this latest jailbreak push that number significantly higher?
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That jailbreak was used more than 18 million times by iOS users eager to hack their iPhone, iPads and iPod touches before Apple updated their software to block the exploit in March.
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Last year the digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation applied to the Library of Congress for an exemption to the DMCA that would allow users to unlock, jailbreak and root their own devices.
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Shortly thereafter, Microsoft issued a statement saying that it does not consider the results of the jailbreak to be part of a security vulnerability, and that the circumvention method may not be available for long.
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And even Jailbreakme3, the popular web-based jailbreak released by iPhone hacker Comex in the summer of 2011, was only used on 1.4 million devices in its first nine days online, Comex told me at the time.
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