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A new jailbreak from a Chinese team dubbed "Pangu" has been released, and reports are spreading quickly around the Internet that it does indeed successfully install the famed "Cydia" jailbreak package installer application. It appears that this jailbreak is similar to the TaiG side of the evasi0n jailbreak from last year in that it also includes a sketchy Chinese pirated app installer.
The jailbreak can be obtained from the Pangu team's website, and there's currently only one .exe installer file available that runs only on Windows. The size of the download is strikingly more than 70 MB, which brings about a bit of suspicion in and of itself. For those with a Mac and willing to give this a shot, it appears that Pangu has an OS X version in the works as the team has "Mac OS" listed as a compatible operating system.
Based on various web reports - although the jailbreak does appear sketchy - there doesn't seem to be any apparently direct malicious intent. Famed jailbreak developer iH8sn0w confirms on Twitter that the package itself doesn't "have "spyware" or malicious trails."
SOURCE: 9to5mac.com