now that the iphone-dev team has unlocked the iphone 3G they’re moving onto jailbreaking the iPod Touch 2G. While they have a completely working jailbreak, it’s not yet in a individual friendly format. [MuscleNerd] did a online video demo this afternoon to show what development they had made. It starts with him showing the iPod on however not booting. He’s already patched the kernel, however it’s failing the signature inspect in iboot. He then utilizes the team’s recoverytool to exploit a hole in iboot as well as patch out the signature check. The ipod then boots usually as well as he shows non-App store software application like Mobile Terminal, Cydia, as well as an NES Emulator (which makes utilize of the iPod’s interior speaker).

The redsn0w jailbreak works, however it has to be used by means of tether whenever the iPod boots. The team won’t release anything up until they’ve discovered a method around this problem. For a lot more insight into the boot process, inspect out our protection of their Hacking the iphone talk at 25C3.