I told you today that the guys from Chronic Dev Team will release a program that will help them discover exploits to give us an untethered jailbreak solution in iOS 5. Everyone is waiting for an untethered jailbreak solution but Chronic Dev Team will not release it for that the "great" exploits discovered by them were blocked by Apple. P0sixninja he explained today in a post on the Chronic Dev Team blog that Apple closed a good part of the exploits discovered by them and that the untethered jailbreak solution is mostly just a sad memory at the moment.
First & foremost: during my JailbreakCon talk in September, I was excited to announce that the Chronic Dev team had already discovered 5 different exploits for use in our upcoming jailbreak. Unfortunately, that announcement was a bit premature, because in the subsequent weeks, Apple found & patched a (critical) few of those exploits, between the beta versions we used for testing and the final release of iOS5 on October 12.
Sadly (and trust us, we are much more sad about this than any of you could possibly be), this has prevented us from being able to release a new jailbreak as quickly as we wanted to. As I hinted at earlier this week on Twitter, I was initially disheartened to think that so many of the countless hours we've worked on this jailbreak seemingly went right down the drain.
Not to mention, these are by no means the first exploits that have been "lost" by Chronic Dev (or any other iOS hacking teams) in this manner. In fact, these are just a few in a long-running series of exploits that were patched by Apple before we hackers could make use of them in a free jailbreak for you, our loyal fans.
Now that the solution is nowhere near ready for release, the Chronic Dev Team has developed a program that will apparently help them discover new exploits in iOS. This program takes the crash logs from iOS and instead of sending them to Apple sends them to the Chronic Dev Team servers where they will analyze the data to discover exploits in iOS. These crash logs contain information about our devices, information about how an application closed by itself or about the instant closing of our terminal. This information helps Apple solve iOS problems and fix exploits, but the Chronic Dev Team wants to use the method to discover exploits.
Instead of allowing this vicious cycle to continue, we decided to write a new program to turn Apple's own beast against its master, per se. All this program requires from you is to attach your iOS device to your computer and click a single button!
At this point, the program copies all the crash reports off your device (which, under normal circumstances, would be sent right back to Apple), and instead sends this data to a secure, private server hosted by your friendly Chronic Dev team. Next, our program proceeds to neuter your copy of iTunes, simply by changing your settings to prevent your computer from sending any further diagnostic information from your device to Apple.
Using this agglomeration of your crash reports and our ninja skills, Chronic Dev will be able to quickly pinpoint vulnerabilities in various programs by using the same techniques Apple currently employs. At the very least, your data will help point us in the direction of which applications are the most vulnerable, so we can focus our time & energy on these with laser-like intensity. And, of course, this will also prevent Apple from accessing all your valuable data, just so they can then turn around and use it against you.
They have released a program for Mac that will automatically send crash reports to their servers instead of Apple's. Now I can't recommend you to use the program because I don't know how they will use that data, but if you are interested in it you can download here. The program modifies your iTunes and makes it send data to Chronic Dev's servers instead of Apple's and automatically deletes logs after download. Logs are normally downloaded to your computer when you connect your iDevice to it and open iTunes.
In conclusion, the untethered jailbreak solution for iOS 5 is... far away.
UPDATE: A Windows version of the program will be released in the near future and will work exactly the same as the Mac OS X version.
