The Chronic Dev Team has reached out to all members of the jailbreak community seeking their help in finding new iPhone 4S and iPad 2 untethered jailbreak exploit on iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1 firmware. They've released a new program through which everyone with a jailbroken device that supports iOS 5 can help.
To understand the reason due to which Chronic-Dev Crash Reporter was released, we must go back in time. At MyGreatFest on September 17 in London, the Chronic Dev Team revealed that they had found 5 new userland exploits that could be used for iOS 5 untethered jailbreak. It turns out the Chronic Dev Team made this announcement prematurely as Apple hunted down a few critical exploits and patched them before the public release of iOS 5 firmware. Meaning that exploits which previously made iOS 5 untethered jailbreak possible no longer exist and the Chronics are back to square one.
Naturally, the Chronics are pissed and they're turning the tables on Apple and hope to be joined by millions of jailbreakers around the planet. In one lengthy blog post today, they revealed the method Apple uses to find vulnerabilities and patch subsequent exploits. Basically, vulnerabilities that lead to userland exploits are discovered by crashing of any particular app on an iOS device. The devs may have to crash an app thousands of times before they can be sure that a vulnerability is present. Though there's one major problem. Whenever an app crashes, the device automatically makes a crash report and submits it to Apple, which can then use this diagnostic report to scout for potential vulnerabilities. Obviously, the Chronic Dev Team has opted out of sending crash reports back to Apple, it can be done in iTunes settings, but that doesn't mean its not possible for Apple to get their data. If anyone of them plugs in their device to a computer that is configured to send crash reports back to Apple, the data goes to Apple. While their development machines are configured not to send diagnostic reports, if for instance they plug in their device to a friend's computer for charge or data transfer and if that particular computer is configured to send diagnostic reports, Apple gets their data which can then lead it to the potential vulnerability.
So the Chronics decided to turn tables against Apple, join forces with jailbreakers all around the world and wage an all out war against the Cupertino outfit. They have released a new program called Chronic-Dev Crash Reporter. It very easy to use. Simply download it, plug in your device to the computer and click one single button. Basically what the Chronic-Dev Crash Reporter does is that it takes all of the crash reports on your device and sends them to a private and secure server of the Chronic Dev Team instead of Apple. So what this means is that Apple doesn't get crash report data, the Chronic Dev Team does and then they can scout through that very data using techniques that Apple applies to search for potential vulnerabilities that can lead to untethered jailbreak exploits for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 in particular.
If this plan works out in the end, its likely that a new vulnerability will be discovered very soon because now the Chronics have scores of jailbreakers around the word helping them to find vulnerabilities that can lead to jailbreak exploits. We've provided the direct download link of Chronic-Dev Crash Reporter for Mac down below. The Windows version will be available in the next 24 hours and this post will be updated with its download link.
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