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Apple is letting us jailbreak
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In that link Apple states the following:
"Some unauthorized modifications have caused damage to iOS that is not repairable. This can result in the hacked iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iOS update is installed."
I was really surprised to read that Apple actually claims jail breaking can permanently disable a device. Never thought that was possible...?
I am sure that they didn't "jailbreak it themselves," but used publicly available jailbreak software like evasion, pangu, tag, etc...
In extreme cases, it can. It was much easier to render an iOS device completely inoperable in the earlier days. Now it is a bit harder to do, but still possible.
Very true. I think the phone I had at this time was a 3GS and I had just jailbroken it and installed whatever app it was that remembers what you had installed previous and then installs them. It ran and rebooted but then gave an error 23. Back then, this was an unrecoverable error. I took it to the Apple store and got a new phone after the guy couldn't get it to restore himself. I blame it on the jailbreak.
As I recall the time between iOS 8 release and a public jailbreak was one of the shortest yet, wasn't it?
I also recall reading a while back that would be making some fundamental change to the inner working of iOS that was expected (at least by some) to make iOS 9 essentially "unjailbreakable"
Did anything ever come of that?
I also recall reading a while back that would be making some fundamental change to the inner working of iOS that was expected (at least by some) to make iOS 9 essentially "unjailbreakable"
Did anything ever come of that?
What you are referring to about iOS 9 is Rootless. A concept that is apparently not as imposing as it was made out to be from the start.
There are already two known jailbreaks for iOS 8.4.1 and iOS 9 - but those are proof of concept jailbreaks and unlikely to be released. I've heard of a tethered 8.4.1 jailbreak that was released unfinished (certain parts were not owned by the dev) to GitHub and there is another rumor that a public jailbreak is ready for iOS 9. The devs are waiting for the right time to release (at least after the release of 9.1) so that Apple doesn't patch it right away.
So many good posts in this thread to enjoy, yet another example that it is silly to close old threads.
I tried to multi-quote but no dice. Anyhow, I definitely agree with the poster that said that Apple loves jailbreaks because it helps them find exploits for free and gives them new ideas.
In ios 9 I really cannot believe how much Apple has borrowed from the jailbreak community. The tweak badger for example is basically implemented in ios.
I also agree that while the laugh and use the jailbreak community, in fact I am sure they have people testing new jailbreak tweaks in a room somewhere as a living, they will never support it and frankly if I were them why would I really?
One thing I know the if jailbreaking becomes impossible I would have to seriously reconsider using ios.
I tried to multi-quote but no dice. Anyhow, I definitely agree with the poster that said that Apple loves jailbreaks because it helps them find exploits for free and gives them new ideas.
In ios 9 I really cannot believe how much Apple has borrowed from the jailbreak community. The tweak badger for example is basically implemented in ios.
I also agree that while the laugh and use the jailbreak community, in fact I am sure they have people testing new jailbreak tweaks in a room somewhere as a living, they will never support it and frankly if I were them why would I really?
One thing I know the if jailbreaking becomes impossible I would have to seriously reconsider using ios.
Android is the same way. They learn from the rooted community and call it there's. That's how android got as far as they did.
Hackers and delevopers got zilch
Goggle got $$$$$$$$
idk .. I've read that some apps don't work on JBen devices because a notice appears saying that the device is JBin or something.
EDIT: OMFG a thread reopened from 2 years ago. Really ... I hate when people do this