Well folks it looks like Apple is stepping up their game with the introduction of the early iOS 4.3 beta firmwares. You see Apple has implemented a never before seen security measure into the iOS4.3 firmware called ASLR. What is ASLR technology, and how does it affect jailbreaking? Well ASLR technology is short for Address Space Layout Randomization, and it is a security protection that randomizes the memory locations of where injected code is executed. More specifically to jailbreaking P0sixninja says “It’s designed to make userland vulnerabilities more difficult to exploit, as well as current methods for initial injections of our exploits”. Which in short means it will make jailbreaking a lot harder than it has ever been before (especially untethered jailbreaks).
Now the great thing to see is that, even though this comes as some grave news to the jailbreaking community, Dev-Team members are not lettings this new set back bring them down. They are remaining optimistic and apparently are looking forward to the challenge (at least P0sixninja and Comex are). If you take a look at the tweets below, you will see that both P0sixninja and Comex are remaining optimistic that they can still develop a jailbreak for the iOS4.3 firmware.
Now the great thing to see is that, even though this comes as some grave news to the jailbreaking community, Dev-Team members are not lettings this new set back bring them down. They are remaining optimistic and apparently are looking forward to the challenge (at least P0sixninja and Comex are). If you take a look at the tweets below, you will see that both P0sixninja and Comex are remaining optimistic that they can still develop a jailbreak for the iOS4.3 firmware.
What I see as being weird here is that ASLR technology was actually going to be used by an iPhone hacker to give you a more secure iDevice (as at the time, this was a security measure Apple had never implemented into their iOS iDevices). If you remember back to December we told you that a new feature would be hitting jailbreaking tools called Antid0te, which inevitably was going to be adding ASLR technology to your iDevice, but AFTER it was jailbroken.
This whole concept of ASLR technology was brought up after someone managed to hack into the iPhone in less than 20 seconds on last years Pwn20wn hacking contest. Unfortunately Antid0te was never released on its scheduled release date, and we have heard nothing of it since. Which makes me wonder why it suddenly halted…
Regardless, one thing is for sure, this cat and mouse game between the Dev-Team and Apple is heating up big time. I just hope the Dev-Team can keep up to Apple! What are your thoughts on Apple stepping up their game?
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