Apple device Now jailbroken for life

Devices with Apple A5x processors can now be jailbroken for life. This is the position that the popular hacker iH8sn0w have made us see in one of the tweets he posted.

In the words of iH8sn0w 

"So looks like all my A5(X) devices are fully untethered and jailbroken for life now.

A5 AES Keys anyone? 4S 7.0.4 iBSS -iv 3a0fc879691a5a359973792bcd367277 -k 371e3aea9121d90b8106228bf2b5ee4c638a0b4837fefbd87a3c0aca646e5996

All A5(X) AES Keys will be posted on @icj_’s icj.me/ios/keys as soon as I clean this up a bit more "

Not many people understand what that means. Basically, What it means is that no matter what iOS version you are running on your A5x device, it will always be jailbreakable just like how iPhone 4 (A4 devices) can be jailbroken tethered on any iOS version. 

Now the exploit found by iH8sn0w is a iBoot exploit (Not bootrom exploit) which is not in a complete state yet. However, when it does become complete those that have an iPhone 4S, iPad 2 & 3, iPad mini and iPod touch 5 will able to untether jailbreak their devices whenever a new iOS device is released.

While this is a kinda good news, its not so much knowing that these devices with the A5x processors will become obsolete soon enough perhaps with only iOS 8 to be supported on them. 

Furthermore, because the exploit is an iBoot exploit, it can easily be patched by Apple in subsequent iOS firmware.  

Jay Freeman (Saurik) puts it this way

For informational purposes (as many people reading might not appreciate the difference), to get the encryption keys you only need an "iBoot exploit", not a "bootrom exploit". It is easier to find iBoot exploits (being later in the boot sequence, it has a larger attack surface: it has to be able to parse filesystems, for example), and they do afford more power over the device than an untethered userland exploit (in addition to letting you derive firmware encryption keys, you can boot custom kernels, and you might be able to dump the bootrom itself), but they are software updatable as part of new firmware releases from Apple and may have "insane setup requirements" (like, you might pretty much need an already-jailbroken device to actually setup the exploit). You thereby wouldn’t see an iBoot exploit used for a jailbreak (unless everyone is out of ideas for a very long time): instead, you’d see it hoarded away as a "secret weapon" used by jailbreakers to derive these encryption keys, making it easier to find and implement exploits on newer firmware updates for the same device (especially kernel exploits, where even if you have an arbitrary write vulnerability you are "flying blind" and thinking "ok, now where should I write? I can’t see anything… :’(").

Actually, its a little too soon to say how this exploit will develop into something really big if it will ever be, but we shall keep close eyes on this to see how things finally turn out in the future for the jailbreak community. 

Until then, stay close to this blog and like our Facebook page and follow us Twitter for more smartphone news. 

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Google’s First Stock Split Is Now Ready To Go Brings Single Share Price Down To Approximately 560

Today, Google announced their earnings for Q4 of 2013 with an impressive $16.88 Billion in revenue. Of course, news came out concerning Motorola as well, with the company once again posting a loss of $384 Million. In comparison to the amount of money Google bought in, that’s a hit the search giant can take, but with Motorola now having been sold off to Lenovo, Google will one less thing to worry about shortly. As it was Google’s earnings call, a fair amount of news concerning the business side of things emerged from Mountain View today. Not a lot of it all that interesting to the likes of us, but if you like money, this sort of thing is always going to be interesting.

Google’s share price has been on the rise steadily since last year and has since climbed above the $1,000 mark, with it currently trading at $1,135.39 (at the time of writing). This has caused Google to give the greenlight to an upcoming stock split. If you’re unfamiliar with a stock split, it’s essentially what it sounds like. Stock is split by the company into less valuable shares. The stock split from Google is going to be a 2-for-1 stock split, which will see the value of each share fall by half, bringing stock prices down to around $560 or so. The split has been a long time coming, but it’s been held up by red tape and other things. The new stock will start public trading on April 3rd later this year.

Google’s stock split will produce Class C stock, which will float on the market with the original naming of GOOG, meanwhile Class A stock will trade on the market with GOOGL as its moniker. Class C stock will carry no vote, meaning no say in the direction of the company. While this sort of thing is fairly common, it’s the first time that Google will be offering a stock split and could mean big things for the search giant. The company’s valuation sees no effect, so don’t expect Google to suddenly fall overnight as a result. If you have stock in Google, or might be considering buying some of the new Class C stock, reach out in the comments below!

Source: VentureBeat

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The Lumia 900 receives a healthy price cut now 49 99 on AT T

If you thought that buying into a Lumia 900 isnt worth it without the WP8 side-salad you might want to read on. Nokias WP flagman has received a healthy price cut and is now available for only $49.99 on a two-year deal with AT&T.



The updated price comes in time for the pink version of the Lumia 900 too.

The Lumia ran into some turmoil when Windows Phone 8 was unveiled because it was deemed unfit to support it. This spurred a logical backlash within Nokias faithful fans because they felt cheated into buying a destitute product. But the Lumia 900 will receive some WP8 goodies via the WP 7.8 update. Add that to the competitive pricing and things are looking good.

The Lumia sports a gorgeous 4.3" ClearBlack AMOLED display of WVGA resolution, LTE (for the US), 8 MP snapper, a single-core 1.4 GHz Snapdragon processor and a beautiful polycarbonate body. If you like you could brush up on the Lumia 900 in our full-fledged review.

If you live in the US and are interested you can buy the phone here.Source

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