Pod2g’s SHAtter exploit can Jailbreak the New Apple TV iOS 4.1

Just Recently, Apple has released its new Apple TV device with iOS 4.1 firmware. And now iPhone Dev Team has already jailbroken the Apple TV firmware successfully using the Pod2g’s SHatter exploit (Greenpois0n). You can download the Apple TV iOS 4.1 firmware from Apple server.

So now the 2nd Generation Apple TV with 4.1 firmware can also be jailbroken with Shatter tool along with iPhone 4, iPad and iPod Touch 4G.

Here is the Update from iPhone Dev Team Blog with iOS keys which used to decrypt the Apple TV firmware.

It’s looking like SHAtter is going to be the gift that keeps on giving.  Even though the new AppleTV isn’t yet in people’s homes, the firmware is available on Apple’s normal public distribution servers and SHAtter has been used to decrypt its keys!  The main filesystem (“Mojave8M89.K66OS”) key for 018-8609-066.dmg is:

31c700a852f1877c88efc05bc5c63e8c7f081c4cb28d024ed7f9b0dbc98c7e1406e499c6

If you’re familiar with vfdecrypt, you can use that key to decrypt the image and mount it.  If you do so, feel free to use the comments section to discuss what you discover there   (And of course, thanks @pod2g!)”

MuscleNerd from iPhone Dev Team also conformed this information in his Tweet.

MuscleNerd also suggested to buy the Apple TV device early to be on safer side and before Apple patches it.

Apple is also planning to launch Apple TV App Store. Jailbreaking Apple TV may make any future restrictions imposed by Apple is blocked and also will allow to add new functionality. it will be interesting to see what the jailbreaking community can now achieve with Apples’ latest TV product.

Stay tuned here for updates…