Official State of the Apple TV 3 Jailbreak, Beware of Scams – AppleTV 4 Jailbreak (appletv4jailbreak.com)

Copy & Paste from JailbreakAppleTV.com & nitoTV Twitter:

It wasn’t our plan to make any public statements about the status of the imminent Apple TV 3 jailbreak however due to the abundance of scams claiming false jailbreaks being spread across the internet, we’ve basically been forced to talk about it in attempts to return legitimacy to the Apple TV jailbreaking community. Most of you probably won’t be too pleased with what we’re going to say, but it’s the truth and that’s that. Continue reading this article so that we can finally put your concerns to rest, and so that you won’t risk getting ripped off by some false jailbreak claims. Continue reading and you’ll be privy to some much anticipated information on the status of the Apple TV 3 Jailbreaking efforts.
Before anyone can begin working on an Apple TV 3 jailbreak, at least on 5.x, an additional exploit is needed to utilize the remaining absinthe exploits. Specifically an injection vector, an injection vector is the exploit that gets on onto the targeted device with root access. The service exploited as the injection vector, mobilebackup2, used on the other iDevices does in absinthe does not exist on the AppleTV 2 or 3. In case you’re not familiar with the terminology, an exploit is basically a security vulnerability that can be applied towards the overall jailbreak, several exploits are needed to achieve a jailbreak. There are a few different issues that are preventing the AppleTV 3 from being jailbroken. The main problem, is one that has been outlined several times before by both MuscleNerd and nitoTV, the attack surface is much smaller on the AppleTV. There are several processes running behind the scenes on any computing device, lately, these are the services that have been exploited, there are less services/processes running on the AppleTV, so there is a smaller “surface” to “attack”. The next major problem, number of people capable of finding these exploits, that would ever have interest in pursuing it, is very small. It’s pretty much the same people who find exploits for the iPhone and iPad that work on the Apple TV jailbreak, generally with much less vigour than its other iOS counterparts.
Jailbreaking of the Apple TV is much less popular statistically than other Apple devices, partly because the only mainstream, free purpose of an Apple TV 3 jailbreak would be to use XBMC. Meanwhile, other portable Apple devices get access to a wide variety of applications through a third party App Store called Cydia through jailbreaking. Functionally, jailbreaking of other devices gives you more abilities, whereas the purpose of an Apple TV Jailbreak could only be losely linked to piracy, something that jailbreakers prefer to keep their distance from. At the end of the day, jailbreakers get more credit and encouragement from the jailbreaking of the iPhone and iPad, so their generally more inclined to work on that first and foremost.
The fact that the Apple TV 3 doesn’t feature a web browser or any real…

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