JailbreakCon 2012 took place this weekend, and a Canadian contingent was present there amongst the iOS hacking community. One of them was 17 year old Steven a.k.a. @iH8sn0w from Toronto. He has been known for his releases of popular jailbreak tools sn0wbreeze, iREB, iFaith and f0recast.
Check out his presentation on stage talking about downgrading iOS below:
Also present was famed hacker Ryan Petrich from Edmonton. Check out his talk below:
These videos are quite advanced if you’re not familiar with hacking and tweaking. It’s great to see these guys present their craft on stage and learn more about them.
For the jailbreakers out there, the Pangu Team released a semi-tethered jailbreak for iOS 9.3.3 and iOS 9.3.2 on the weekend. Semi-tethered means if you reboot your device (or run out of battery), the jailbreak will be removed. However, in order to get this jailbreak back, you don’t require a computer as you just need to...
Shortly after the first beta of iOS 10 was released, renowned Canadian hacker iH8sn0w showed off an iPhone 5 running an untethered jailbreak. Today it was Pangu's turn to show it is possible to jailbreak Apple's latest mobile operating system (via 9to5Mac). Pangu is the Chinese hacking team responsible for several of the most recent jailbreaks....
The first beta of iOS 10 has been around for only four days, but it has already been cracked by well-known Canadian hacker iH8sn0w. In a video posted on YouTube just a few hours ago, he documented that iOS 10 is indeed vulnerable to jailbreak exploits. In the video he shared, he used a 32-bit...
