iPhone Hack may enable future jailbreak

[moonman239]

Hackers successfully hacked an iPhone using a charger. p0sixninja says that this hack could enable innocent people to develop a tool that could be used to jailbreak any device running future versions of iOS. Maybe even any version.

Note: For all I know, the loophole they used may only be available on an iPhone, which is the device the hackers hacked. That is why I am using the iPhone prefix.

Source: "Could a New iPhone Hack Fuel Future Jailbreaks?" - iFans.com, Jun 4, 2013

 

[iRooney]

Okay.....thanks?

 

[lukejc1]

My guess is now that Apple knows of this issue, they might develop a fix to prevent this kind of hacking.

 

[Applejuiced]

My guess is now that Apple knows of this issue, they might develop a fix to prevent this kind of hacking.

That's what Im afraid of too.
Wish they would had hold off till ios 7 was out to release that info.
Now they could patch it with the next ios release.

 

[kalirob99]

This could be fixed in an IOS update.. but this seems like it would be considered more of a hardware loophole if its done via the charger.