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That was fast: iOS 5 has already been jailbroken, MuscleNerd confirms

The iPhone Dev Team’s MuscleNerd has confirmed via his Twitter account that iOS 5 has been successfully jailbroken, adding the hack will work on the final iOS 5 version when it ships this Fall.It is a tethered jailbreak so you will have to connect your device to a computer each time it restarts (until they develop an untethered jailbreak). “Cydia works fine from quick testing (I installed SSH)”, he tweeted.

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