On Saturday morning, Apple’s iPad left the stable and went on sale. A little over 24 hours later, MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev-Team said he had cracked the iPad by exploiting unpatched security flaws that migrated from iPhone OS 3.1.3 (the iPad uses an updated iPhone OS, version 3.2).
According to MuscleNerd’sTwitter update, it appears he used a variation of the same “Spirit” jailbreak recently applied to iPhone OS 3.1.3, taking advantage of the same browser-based exploit in order to gain root access and let unsigned apps run on the tablet.
It doesn’t come as any surprise that someone managed to jailbreak the iPad, especially considering Apple neglected to plug a handful of security holes in between firmware releases. What is surprising, however, is how quickly this was done. Whether or not this hack will be made into an automated program remains to be seen.
Image Credit: TwitPic MuscleNerd
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