Last night I told you that hacker iH8sn0w managed to discover an iBoot exploit that allows him to perform untethered jailbreak for all chip iDevices A5. Although the hacker has very clearly announced that the exploit will not be used publicly in a solution of jailbreak, he stated that it could work even on chip-enabled iDevices A6 or A7. If the hacker is right, then everything iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch-s launched after iPad 2, including, and up to iPad Mini with Retina Display they will be able to be untethered jailbroken no matter what version of iOS is running on them.
The problem is that this iBoot exploit is not available in the bootrom, so Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it can be closed through a software update, and this is where the hacker's reluctance to use it comes from. The good part is that if iH8sn0w won't publish this exploit, then it should exist in the future as well A8, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), not being able to block it if he doesn't know exactly where it is and how it works. Basically, thanks to this hacker we could have at least one jailbreak solution for iOS 8, but for iOS 7.1 it is unlikely that we will see any more.
