IOS hacker p0sixninja, aka Joshua Hill, has jailbroken the new AppleTV. To do it, he used an unreleased version of the tool greenpois0n, an exploit designed to crack iOS version 4.1.
The v2 AppleTV runs on the same iOS that Apple uses for all its mobile devices, and shares the custom A4 chip used in the iPhone 4, the iPad and the latest iPod Touch. Greenpois0n, like other jailbreak exploits, hacks the operating system to give the user access to the file system, and from there the ability to install third-party applications.
As you can see from the photograph posted by Hill on Twitter, the hack adds in greenpois0n menu to the AppleTV. It can’t be long now before he manages to install apps from Cydia, the unofficial jailbreak app store, and perhaps even official apps meant for the iPad. VLC on the AppleTV? Yes please!
Ohai AppleTV [Joshua Hill on Twitter]
Greenpois0n [Chronic Dev Team]
Photo: Joshua Hill
See Also:
- Hands-On With New $100 Apple TV
- AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken
- Logitech Google TV Box Embarrasses Apple TV
- 6 Reasons to Jailbreak Your iPhone
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