1 Million A5 ‘Absinthe’ Jailbreaks Carried Out

The iPhone Dev Team is proud to confirm that in the first three days of Absinthe’s debut, roughly 1 million A5 customers owners jailbroke their devices using the new tool.

The Team posted a quick breakdown of how many A5 owners jailbroke their devices since Friday morning:

“The numbers as of Monday afternoon are:
491,325 new iPhone4,1 devices
308,967 new iPad2 devices
152,940 previously jailbroken (at 4.x) iPad2 devices"

That’s a total of 953,232 A5 jailbreaks in just over 3 days, the Team said.

The Team explains that “The reason these numbers can be so precise is that one of the housekeeping activities that happens when you launch Cydia is a query to @saurik’s server for the list of available SHSH blobs.  (Even if you have none on file, the query is still made).”

“Welcome to the jailbreak family!”, says the infamous group of hackers.

The crew used this opportunity to remind everyone that iOS 5.0.2, or whatever new firmware Apple pushed out next, should be off limits to those wielding an A5 device.

Even though Absinthe jailbreaks these devices, it only works with iOS 5.0 and 5.0.1. The next iOS version from Apple is likely to be patched. The team explains:

“Remember the cardinal rule of jailbreaking: never update your firmware until a new jailbreak is available.  This is especially true for A5 owners, who currently have no way of restoring to 5.0.1 once the 5.0.1 SHSH blob signing window is closed.”

According to the Chronic Dev Team, whose Pod2g was proud to announce Absinthe on Friday evening, “the ridiculously complex combination of exploits-within-exploits that make this iOS jailbreak possible have consumed thousands of hours of brain-power & effort from a legion of world-renowned hackers.”