14 DAY TRIAL // The Chronic Dev Team, the hacking crew responsible for GreenPois0n, is actively testing ‘untethered’ jailbreaking methods for iOS 5, but plans to keep the code to themselves throughout Apple’s beta testing period of the new operating system.
“Yeah, the whole chronic-dev team is still alive and actively working on iOS 5!,” said janhei77.
The tweets launched by the Chronic-Dev team members suggest that work is underway to achieve not a tethered iOS 5 jailbreak, but an untethered one.
Existing solutions, mostly provided by the rival iPhone Dev Team, already provide a tethered jailbreak for the newest iOS 5 betas.
An untethered jailbreak, however, is more valuable as it allows users to keep their hack even after a device reboot.
The exploit won’t be implemented into existing jailbreak tools before Apple finishes up beta testing iOS 5 as it would give the Cupertino giant a head start in the cat-and-mouse game between them and the hackers, as hacker pod2g explains:
“there won’t be untethered jailbreaks for iOS 5 betas. It would give too much intel to Apple to fix,” reads the tweet.
Developers enrolled with Apple’s programs are currently testing out the seventh beta of iOS 5. Cupertino is said to have plans to drop a fresh seed tomorrow, setting a new record for the number betas released in a single development cycle.
Provided that the intel obtained by BGR this week holds water, the iOS 5 GM (Golden Master) build will emerge towards the end of the month.
End customers may see it posted for download no later than October 10th, if another rumor is to be taken seriously.
The fall 2011 public debut of iOS 5 has already been confirmed by Apple. It will be launched alongside iCloud, the new web-based suite of cloud services replacing MobileMe.