There is some good news for many of you iPad 2 owners out. A tweet from Joshua Hill (p0sixninja from the Chronic Dev Team) from the iPhone jailbreak scene has recently tweeted that the Chronic Dev Team might have a surprise for all of us. We haven’t seen much activity from the Chronic Dev Team since the release of the iOS 4.2.1 untethered jailbreak using greenPois0n RC5. The team’s key member, p0sixninja almost disappeared after buying an iPad 2 device. We also heard that SHAtter has been recently patched in the latest firmware by Apple and that the exploit will be unable to jailbreak iOS 4.3. But now, we are finally seeing some activity from the Chronic Dev Team and it is starting to look good. First the the following strange code was posted: 4c3ce3f36b98c085aa6131ecfdf25804c0f78ebf After a few days later, the following message was posted: Huge changes for Chronic-Dev Team soon. We’re all really excited!! And more recently, the following: To clear things up, the hash I posted a few days ago wasn’t unlock related, it was iPad2 jailbreak related It seems like that a jailbreak for iOS 4.3 has been discovered and this time it may be achieved using a new exploit (we are assuming this is the case since the SHAtter exploit was supposedly patched, but maybe they found a work around). In case you didn’t already know all the current jailbreak tools are using GeoHot’s bootrom based Limera1n exploit to jailbreak iOS based devices on the latest firmware. Since the Limera1n exploit was one that existed in the hardware, a hardware revision from Apple can patch it. GeoHot released Limera1n back in October last year and forced the Chronic Dev Team to save their SHAtter exploit to jailbreak future devices such as the iPad 2. Unfortunately early testing showed that Apple has already patched both the exploits back in March 2010, long before they were found by GeoHot (Limera1n) and the Chronic Dev Team (SHAtter). If this tweet by Joshua Hill is anything to base assumptions off of, then the Chronic Dev Team may have found a way or two to get SHAtter working on the A5-based iPad 2. Though for an untethered jailbreak, a userland based jailbreak exploit will be needed and Comex is supposedly working on it. So is the GreenPois0n update on the horizon? We don’t know for sure, but we do know that there is soon going to be a way to fully jailbreak the iPad 2 and iOS 4.3 (or iOS 4.3.1) untethered on all devices. Stay tuned for more on this topic by following us on Facebook, Twitter and/or by subscribing to our RSS Feed. [Source: Twitter [1], [2], [3]] You may also like to read: Authors:

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