14 DAY TRIAL // iOS hacker Joshua Hill (@p0sixninja on Twitter) has announced plans to introduce OpenJailbreak, a collaborative effort to gather jailbreak exploits for iOS 7 and (perhaps) beyond.
While iOS 7 has already surrendered to hacking efforts, a full-fledged jailbreak is yet to be developed. Renowned hacker Joshua Hill is tired of the existing solutions and wants to create a unified tool that works for everyone when iOS 7 debuts this fall.
Speaking to iFans, Hill said, “Essentially it’s going to be a repository of open source jailbreak components that I created over the years.”
He explains that the main reason behind this initiative is the fact that much of his code has been “hacked up and incorporated into other projects,” causing it to become fragmented.
Thus, the need for “a central repository to maintain all this code” arose. OpenJailbreak will allow other code-savvy individuals to “submit patches or help layout a roadmap for what new features and abilities will be added in the future,” said Hill.
Apple has already confirmed that iOS 7 will be released this fall, but a great part of any jailbreak also lies in the hardware.
When the iPhone 5S (or whatever Apple plans to release) is out, hackers will need to test their work against the new applications processor (likely the A7).
Some security experts have voiced concerns that jailbreaks will soon become irrelevant, as Apple opens up iOS to legally create certain tweaks and tools.
Others have said that iOS 7 will mark the end of public jailbreaks as we know them. Certain governmental agencies will reportedly pay big bucks to get their hands on the precious jailbreak exploits for national security reasons.
However, Joshua Hill’s effort is clear evidence that jailbreaks will live on through iOS 7, and perhaps beyond.