Chronic Dev Team's Shatter Exploit Patched By Apple, iPad 2 Will Be Jailbroken With Userland Exploit

Earlier, it seems like we will be able to jailbreak the Apple’s iPad 2 tablet due to the fact that the iOS 4.3 Gold Master was easily jailbroken on other iOS devices. However, apple surprised the entire iPhone jailbreak community when they released the latest version of iPad that runs on iOS 4.3 and powered with a new hardware, the A5 dual-core processor. And as a result, all hardware-based exploit has been patched. These include GeoHot’s Limera1n exploit and the Chronic Dev Team’s SHAtter exploit.

For those of you who aren’t aware, SHAtter exploit was discovered by Posixninja of the Chronic Dev Team. However, SHAtter exploit never saw the light, because GeoHot launched his jailbreak tool called Limera1n before the Chronic Dev-Team could get their jailbreak out. Both Limera1n and SHAtter was made use of an A4 chip exploit. Also, other jailbreak tools such as Sn0wbreeze, PwnageTool, and Redsn0w utilizes Limeara1n exploit. Meaning, the aforementioned jailbreak tool will not work on iPad 2 and future iOS devices.

MuscleNerd, the spokesperson of the iPhone Dev Team, recently Tweeted regarding the fix:

"Early testing also seems to show at least one thing SHAtter depends on was gone by March 2010 too :("
"SHAtter can't work at all with the "thing" i referred to gone"
"iPad2 bootrom version iBoot-838.3 means it was compiled March'10. Seems geohot guessed right: limera1n was already closed"

As quoted above, it is very interesting to know that fixes were actually around a year ago, long before the hacks were even released. Anyway, hopefully the Dev Team and iPhone hackers figure out how to resolve this issue. Stay tuned!

Chronic Dev Team Preparing SHAtter Bootrom Exploit to Jailbreak iOS 4.3

Not long after the official announcement of the second-generation iPad that runs on iOS 4.3, the front man of the Chronic Dev Team Joshua Hill (also known as p0sixninja) seems like preparing his SHAtter Bootrom exploit to jailbreak the upcoming iOS 4.3 running on iPad 2, as well as other iOS devices such as the iPhone 4 (GSM), iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, iPod Touch 3G, and iPad 1.

Well, we all know that its predecessor first-gen iPad was jailbroken on iOS 4.2.1 and iOS 4.1 with Limera1n, Greenpois0n, Redns0w, Sn0wbreeze, and PwnageTool. And as expected, Apple patched up this exploit, which mean these tools will not work on iOS 4.3 and on iPad 2. However, back in October last year, p0sixninja and in collaboration with co-iPhone hacker pod2G developed the SHAtter exploit to jailbreak iOS 4.1 and they are all set to launch this exploit in the form of Greenpois0n, however, iPhone hacker GeoHot stepped in and released his Limera1n bootrom exploit to jailbreak iOS 4.1. So the Dev Team decided to save this exploit for future iOS devices.

Here’s the tweet by p0sixninja:

“We’re crossing our fingers and hoping that at least SHAtter is still in iPad2”

On the other hand, Apple recently seeded the final Gold Master version of iOS 4.3 to developers, and the final public of the iOS 4.3 will be release on the 11 of March, along with the iPad 2 - which will be available in black and white. In the meantime, let’s all hope the SHAtter exploit works on iOS 4.3. Stay tuned for more updates.