Updated Ac1dSn0w Jailbreak Released

The PwnDev crew are proud to release the second beta version of their infamous jailbreak tool, Ac1dSn0w. Beta 2 works with Mac OS X Lion and Snow Leopard, includes some legal updates, fixes some ramdisk issues, and removes the boot logo.

“I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just released Beta 1 of Ac1dSn0w for Mac OS X Lion (should also work on Snow Leopard),” says Manuel Gebele, of the PwnDevTeam.

The features touted by PwnDevTeam for by Ac1dSn0w include: Tethered Boot, Pwned DFU, and Exit Recovery. Exit Recovery allows you to break free from the Recovery Loop. Another major benefit of the updated Ac1dSn0w is the “Show console” option.

“Ac1dSn0w allows you to jailbreak your iDevice tethered,” Gebele outlines.

As avid Softpedia readers will remember, Ac1dSn0w was banned initially, mostly because it used Apple proprietary code to achieve the jailbreak.

“Unfortunately they achieve this by directly embedding Apple code in their program (15 times!),” wrote the iPhone Dev Team’s Musclenerd after hearing of the hack. “That’s the kind of copyright infringement we stay away from.”

And while it appears Ac1dSn0w is now on the right track, there’s more on the way from the people at PwnDev.

They note that Ac1dSn0w is in its early development stages, and that “In the future it will also be able to jailbreak remote devices.”

“This means that you just need to install a server program on any OS (Linux, BSD, Windows) and Ac1dSn0w will jailbreak it on a client machine anywhere in the world,” Gebele explains.

They also plan to implement custom firmware creation sometime in the future, as well as an iRecovery Remote which will allow users to talk to remote devices and send their own payloads. Finally, the tool is on track to get its own boot logo.