Pod2g, who was instrumental in the 5.0.1 and A5 jailbreak, has issued an update on an untethered jailbreak of 5.1.

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He said last month that he only had a few pieces, so hearing they have all the exploits this is good news for jailbreaking 5.1. Hopefully it won't be too much longer!

Update:

But @chpwn later on told us this might mean months before seeing a completed solution that will allow any of us jailbreak his iOS 5.1 device.

transport jailbreak files to attach files people and jailbreak right from ihackmyi

Jreaper, on 18 April 2012 - 04:05 PM, said:

What?

sorry i am mistaken i meant they need to make some jailbreak files so people can download jailbreak right on ihackmyi

DaKnOb, on 18 April 2012 - 03:47 PM, said:

It always takes time to wrap exploits and fix bugs before it's ready for the public. This is just stating that a major hurdle has been passed and progress is being made.

Jreaper, on 18 April 2012 - 05:37 PM, said:

We've considered this but because even current jailbreaks are updated frequently it would take some effort to keep our files up to date with each incremental version.

They're probable going for 3 user-lands, like i0n1c.
5.1 is okay, but what if they have to fight Kernel-Level ASLR?

DaKnOb, on 18 April 2012 - 05:42 PM, said:

I don't know. He's done great work overcoming the A5 so I'm hopeful.

brutal read my forum on my idea no its not for new forum something else

Apparently, they'd need a lot of time. Hopefully Apple won't implement such level of security.

Jreaper, on 18 April 2012 - 05:46 PM, said:

absolutely no idea what you're rabbiting on about

Update from MuscleNerd:

ASLR seems bypassed! Weird machines FTW. Time to ROP the payload.

Tying to catch up and dealing with my ignorance....

What does ASLR, FTW (for thewin?) and ROP mean??

SHould I understand that the untethered realese is close to come?

All we really know is it's in the works.

if this works i will finally update

albert65, on 20 April 2012 - 03:11 PM, said:

ASLR stands for Address Space Layout Randomization. Instead of using the same memory "places" all the time, it uses a random one, making the jailbreak much harder by the time they don't know where to look for specific variables.

Has it compare to before a more efficient and faster memory management or is it just for avoiding easy jailbreaking?

albert65, on 21 April 2012 - 07:44 AM, said:

It is amazingly more secure with pretty much unnoticeable hardware use

Added the latest update from pod2g:

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