The Real Story behind the leaking of @comex’s iPad 2 Jailbreak

Two days ago, we posted a news story about the iPhone hacker Comex’s iPad 2 jailbreak getting leaked. It was originally believed that the jailbreak was leaked by one of his trusted beta testers, but it turns out this wasn’t true. The jailbreaks were actually leaked by Will Sayer. Click read more for the full story.

The story was unveiled to us via Ryan Lobbins’s personal blog, where he admits that he was indirectly responsible for the leak. Ryan was not actually a beta tester, he stumbled across the files whilst having a look at the directories on the website Qoid.us, a website Comex had tweeted about. Incredibly, he came across a folder called saffron which contained a bunch of PDF and deb files, each named after a different iDevice, as well as a php file.

Ryan is a member of the iCommunity, and therefore knew that these were probably a version of Comex’s jailbreak. However, being a computer scientist himself, Ryan did not send the files out onto the Internet, as he knew how he’d feel if something he’d been working on for a long time was leaked onto the Internet. Instead, he tested the files, but they did not work, and for fear of Comex deleting them from the Qoid website, he saved the files onto his own personal website.

He started to wonder if the files worked at all, and therefore sent one of the files to a friend of his, Will Sayer, who tried the file, which worked and jailbroke his iPad. He made Will swear that he wouldn’t leak the file, but the next morning, the file was leaked.

So there you have it, the story behind the leaking of Comex’s iPad 2 jailbreak. Let us hope that this leaking doesn’t dissuade Comex from continuing his brilliant work for the iCommunity.

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