You don’t need to have a high school diploma, driver’s license or even legal independence to successfully subvert the best efforts of a major corporation from your home computer. That’s what one 13-year-old who goes by the handle AriX proved with iJailbreak, a program to easily crack the iPod Touch’s restrictions on third-party applications.
Promoted on iJailbreak.com, the application uses AppleScript to smooth over the process of hacking the iPod Touch, which had been accomplished before in the hacking community but required a lengthy process that was unsuitable for most novices. The new hack merely requires users to run the program and restart the device, leaving an icon when it has completed. Afterwards, users can do as they please with the Touch’s applications.
