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[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

there's no bootrom exploit discovered yet on those newer devices. this uses usbliter8 that was discovered for iphone xs/11, kinda similar to checkm8 for iphone 4s~x

the reason asahi linux is possible is because apple allows loading arbitrary kernel images on macs. they don't for ios devices.

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