Beta O'Clock

Today at exactly 2 minutes past Beta O’Clock we are releasing a beta version of redsn0w. The release hopes to simplify the jailbreaking of your iPod touch 2G.

redsn0w is currently in beta as it relies on the user running it from the command line, but this new redsn0w functionality is being added into our GUI applications.

If you are not fully confident with using the command line, then hold off for those simpler tools that will be released sometime soon.

Related links

* iPod Touch 2G: Hi, welcome to the jailbreak family
* 0x24000 Segment Overflow

Credits
implementation ⓒ2009 iPhone Dev Team
vulnerability: pod2g, MuscleNerd
exploit: planetbeing, CPICH, posixninja, chronic, ius

Legal
This work is copyrighted with all rights reserved. Modification or redistribution without written consent is expressly prohibited.

UPDATE

The redsn0w site shows the latest release version, it is currently at v0.3.
2 weeks ago
Comments
Cat. Bag. Mouse.

Well, the cat is out of the bag. The 3.0 firmware from Apple can be jailbroken, and there are now sites out there giving you that jailbreak (after you sort through various ads and browser popups, etc).

Of course it’s not really a surprise that it can be jailbroken. One of the nicest things about the jailbreaking iPhones and iPod Touches nowadays is that once a given device can be jailbroken, it can always be jailbroken. The exploits we’re forced to resort to are down at the hardware level, where nothing can be done about them via software. That’s why within a day or two of 3.0 beta1’s release we were able to snap this screenshot of a jailbroken system: