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Apple hiring security manager to fight Iphone jailbreaking
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but the pirating app part is from what it looks like here and people I have met seems to be a very small part. Most people I know jail break to customize the phone a little more. Little things like themes, customize ring tones, putting alerts on the lock screen an so on.
I know for a fact apple could start allowing themes and even sell them in the app store. These means more money for them and requires no real support. As for proof of this go look at the blackberry comminty. There are quite a few very popular "premium" themes out there that people sell for profit. Apple could just sell them in the app store. Allow people to post free or "premium" the ones that cost money take the normal 30% cut and take the free money.
See, now I'm not a hacker, but aren't hacks modular to some extent? Isn't it possible that some aspect of an exploit that exists tethered may ultimately also be embeddable in one of these other ways?
I do understand the concept generally that users are endangered from a security standpoint because Jailbreaking exposes vulnerabilities. If Apple would be so kind as to sell unlocked iPhones or use multiple carriers in the US, I might not care for jailbreaking at all -- as it is, I don't even install Cydia or Icy on my iPhone (and coincidentally my Pwn'd iPhone is not vulnerable to that Danish hack).
(Someone I know well gave an iPhone as a gift to his girlfriend; except it was jailbroken with call monitoring software installed so he can listen in on her and read her txts!)
OMG, that's terrible!
Apple bringing an end to jailbreaking and therefore piracy?
Recently just saw this link:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/techno...to-fight-iphone-jailbreaking-115875-21798021/
Just thought I'll remind all developers that this good news! No jailbreaking means there won't be piracy anymore!
Recently just saw this link:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/techno...to-fight-iphone-jailbreaking-115875-21798021/
Just thought I'll remind all developers that this good news! No jailbreaking means there won't be piracy anymore!
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https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/814603/
And please stop thinking jail breakers all pirate. Most of the jail breakers do it because of a long list of other reasons,
Customizing the home screen
putting Alerts on the log screen
THEMES
Customized SMS tones.
the list goes on....
None of which have anything to with piracy. If apple would allow main reason people Jail break onto the iPhone most of the Jail breaking would go away and there might be a real case attack it for pirating apps. Until then please stop saying that people Jailbreak only to pirate.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/814603/
And please stop thinking jail breakers all pirate. Most of the jail breakers do it because of a long list of other reasons,
Customizing the home screen
putting Alerts on the log screen
THEMES
Customized SMS tones.
the list goes on....
None of which have anything to with piracy. If apple would allow main reason people Jail break onto the iPhone most of the Jail breaking would go away and there might be a real case attack it for pirating apps. Until then please stop saying that people Jailbreak only to pirate.
I fixed the link for you, and there are some of us who jailbreak for other reasons, not to pirate apps. I jailbroke mine so I could run apps in the background. Not interested in getting apps for free because one, I feel the developers should get paid for their hard work if it's good enough and two, if it's not worth it or it's more than I want to pay, then I just either don't buy the app or wait until I can if I want it.
1. Your link doesn't work.
2. Jailbreaking is about much more than pirating apps. Yes, piracy is one unfortunate byproduct of jailbreaking. But I've yet to hear anyone suggest that we get rid of the internet to stop online sharing of pirated songs/movies/etc.
2. Jailbreaking is about much more than pirating apps. Yes, piracy is one unfortunate byproduct of jailbreaking. But I've yet to hear anyone suggest that we get rid of the internet to stop online sharing of pirated songs/movies/etc.
I know that jailbreaking is not just about stealing, but too bad over 80% of the jailbreakers are thieves. So arguments like this one doesn't hold
What do you expect. He is drunk off the apple koolaid. Apple can do no wrong.
Haha, yea. I'm doing my own "research" here https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=8766404
Come on over and vote.
Yep I think that was the first known way. I think it was a tiff image overloaded the device to allow access.
I guess Apple wants me to stop spending the large amount of money I spend on their products and accessories. I will not own an iPhone without being able to jailbreak it.
While I do not jailbreak, the only problem I have with jailbreaking is the pirated applications.
If anything you could say that Apple is fighting against that :/...a better argument than saying "security flaw that no one ever uses but still gotta make sure it's plugged (which is definitely valid)"
If anything you could say that Apple is fighting against that :/...a better argument than saying "security flaw that no one ever uses but still gotta make sure it's plugged (which is definitely valid)"
Did his original post say that?
Because the edited one says nothing about all jailbreakers being pirates.
Just wondering what was changed.
Entirely irrelevant. That SMS scam only works over a wifi network on jailbroken iphones running ssh with the default root password.
It's basically a stupidity tax!
Hah! And it wasn't even an SMS... they made a background in photoshop and simply replaced the Background.jpg file with their own and restarted the SpringBoard. Easy as cake. I did something similar to my girlfriend's iPod touch when she had hers jailbroken. I changed her background picture to "I love you" and made it all cute.