While we likely will never see an Apple TV 3 jailbreak, hopes are high for an Apple TV jailbreak for the new model, and it’s actually already been teased.

The new Apple TV released back in October after being announced in September during Apple’s iPhone 6s event. The set-top box unsurprisingly is a huge overhaul over the Apple TV 3 coming with an all-new user interface, as well as a brand new Apple TV remote that has a built-in glass trackpad.

The new device is also $50 more expensive than what a new Apple TV used to cost, but that was bound to happen with all of the new features added on, especially third-party app support and even the ability to play video games on the box as well.

La la laaa #AppleTV4 fun pic.twitter.com/Knrjs96Y2K

— Stefan Esser (@i0n1c) December 13, 2015

However, one thing that many Apple TV users are waiting patiently on is an Apple TV jailbreak for the new model, which runs a re-branded operating system called tvOS that likely contains a lot of the same code as iOS for Apple TV 3, but also probably includes a ton of new code that jailbreak developers could be sifting through to find a security hole.

Luckily, it looks like that may have happened, as one renowned jailbreak developer has teased the possibility of what may be an Apple TV jailbreak.

Stefan Esser (who goes by the handle “i0n1c”) posted a photo of his new Apple TV home screen on Twitter (shown above) that shows a successfully installed version of OpenSSH sitting on the home screen along with some other Apple TV apps.

OpenSSH is an app that essentially secures internet connections on devices that you have it installed on, and it’s only available on jailbroken Apple devices through Cydia. Of course, since Cydia isn’t available on the new Apple TV, it looks like OpenSSH was side-loaded onto the Apple TV in this particular instance.

Of course, it’s important to keep in mind that Esser likely won’t release the Apple TV jailbreak that he’s discovered, as he hasn’t released anything jailbreak-related in a while, even if he does discover new exploits.

Posted: Dec 15, 2015 5:49 pm
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Source: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/12/14/apple-tv-jailbreak-release-teased/