Useful sites and links for jailbreaking tutorials
Recommended additional software before you start
( You MUST backup your SHSH blobs to downgrade the iOS )
Putty SSH remote terminal
Jailbreaking the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Apple TV is legal
The default root password is alpine REMEMBER to change the default password !!
Also change the user mobile password alpine. Apple TV only has one user root
You can always use iTunes to restore your device to factory default
( IMPORTANT: make sure to backup any music videos or paid apps first )
When running an iDevice as a web server, the older the iOS the better - more available memory with less apps and processes to disable.
JailBreaking Your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch or Apple® TV2
<=Download the older firmware
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Want to use your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch or Apple TV2 for security testing with free tools like Nmap, Metasploit etc or run a web server ? You first need to jailbreak it.
Jonathan Zdziarski an iPhone Fornenics Expert - Quotes on Jailbreaking
"In my opinion, jailbreaking an iPhone allows the device to function more like a computer system, and less like a monopolized, centrally controlled product – which sounds better to me. And in acting like a standard Unix computer system, we in the technology world are more likely to deem it to be “secure enough” as any Laptop with an AirCard or network server. The added benefits of jailbreaking outweigh any risk that we could possibly incur as a result of DRM control."
"We’ve dispelled the myth that jailbreaking is detrimental to security when, in fact, it has a long history of improving security (thanks to Apple’s lax and, in my opinion, reckless attention to security)."
8.6% of US iPhones in 2009 were jailbroken. In 2011 34% of iPhones and 27% of iPads in China were jailbroken
Jailbreak Software (Author's Sites)
How To Jailbreak
iPhone 3-4 iPad 1 iPod Touch 2-4
iOS 5.0.1
iOS 4.3.3
iOS 4.3.2
iOS 4.3.1
iOS 4.2.1
iOS 4.1
iOS 3.2.1
How To Jailbreak
Apple TV 2
iOS 5.0.1 (Firmware 4.4.4)
iOS 4.3 (Firmware 4.2.2)
iOS 4.2.1 (Firmware 4.1.1)
iDevice Firmware Downloads
These files will be downloaded directly from Apple™
Old Versions of iTunes
>Not needed for iOS downgrading<
> Use the latest iTunes <
>For testing or development only <