BREAKING: Apple iPad 2 Has Been Jailbroken ! [Video]
Yes you read that right ! The famous iPhone developer and hacker Comex, who previously released userland jailbreaks such as Spirit and JailbreakMe, has done the magic yet again ! … In the image attached above, you can clearly see a jailbroken iPad 2 running Cydia.
Context & Ripple Effects
Comex is not a newcomer to this: he built his reputation on the userland exploits lineage that produced Spirit and JailbreakMe, both confirmed in the record as his prior releases. The iOS jailbreak scene had been running hot through late 2010 — the Apple TV demo using SHAtter in October and the Redsn0w jailbreak of iOS 4.2.1 in November — so a crack of Apple's newest tablet lands on an established rhythm rather than out of nowhere.
What makes this notable is the target: the iPad 2 is Apple's just-released hardware, and Comex already has it running Cydia, the third-party app store that cemented its dominance when it absorbed rival Rock.app in September 2010. A working jailbreak this early means the exploit chain survived whatever hardening shipped with the new device.
First-order effects
- iPad 2 owners get immediate access to Cydia's catalog of unofficial apps and tweaks on hardware that has barely reached customers.
Second-order effects
- Apple's security team comes under immediate pressure to identify and close the hole in a future iOS update, repeating the patch cycle that followed earlier jailbreaks like SHAtter and the 4.2.1 Redsn0w release.
Third-order effects
- If every major Apple device keeps falling within days of release, the structural pattern solidifies into a permanent cat-and-mouse: locked-by-default hardware versus a hacker community whose exploits force recurring security revisions across the entire iOS line.
The trend: iOS jailbreaking has matured into a fast-moving cycle where each new Apple device or firmware release is cracked by a known set of hackers almost immediately, keeping Cydia's parallel app economy alive against Apple's patches.