iPad Jailbroken After a Mere Day on the Market

Jailbreaking a new iPhone OS device is almost a race these days, but we never expected the hackers to break through the iPad's security in one day. And yet, that's exactly what they've done.

MuscleNerd, an apparently well-known member of the iPhone Dev Team (the group of tinkerers responsible for most of the jailbreaking of the iPhone and iPod Touch), managed to use a similar technique with the iPad as with the iPhone for a preliminary jailbreak. The hack seems to be a browser-based exploit...