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Should I jailbreak my phone? (8gig 3g)
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Necro posting on an almost 1 year old thread to throw in your $0.02, Priceless
Using your brain before posting is tough, for everything else there's Mastercard.
Do Not
A HACKER IN DENMARK TOOK OVER IPHONES BECAUSE OF JAIL BREAKING. When you jailbreak you let your iphones info on the internet. A hacker can then hack your phone and lock it until you pay or forever. What are you going to do take it to the genius bar nope because when you jail broke it you violate an agreement you made have fun with your broken Iphone.
A HACKER IN DENMARK TOOK OVER IPHONES BECAUSE OF JAIL BREAKING. When you jailbreak you let your iphones info on the internet. A hacker can then hack your phone and lock it until you pay or forever. What are you going to do take it to the genius bar nope because when you jail broke it you violate an agreement you made have fun with your broken Iphone.
You revived an ancient thread just to scold us for jailbreaking our phones...with bad information that isn't even true? Let me set you straight:
1) Jailbreaking does not put any information about your phone on the Internet.
2) The hack you are talking about takes place over a local network, and requires that you have a specific application (OpenSSH) installed and running on your phone.
3) The only people who are even susceptible to this hack are people who didn't bother to change the root and user account passwords on their phone.
4) You can always put your phone in DFU mode and restore. No hacker can prevent you from doing that, and no genius bar genius will ever be able to tell that you once jailbroke your phone.
5) But then again, you won't have to take your phone to the genius bar, because it will be like new again anyway, and all trace of the evil hacker's former presence will be obliterated.
1) Jailbreaking does not put any information about your phone on the Internet.
2) The hack you are talking about takes place over a local network, and requires that you have a specific application (OpenSSH) installed and running on your phone.
3) The only people who are even susceptible to this hack are people who didn't bother to change the root and user account passwords on their phone.
4) You can always put your phone in DFU mode and restore. No hacker can prevent you from doing that, and no genius bar genius will ever be able to tell that you once jailbroke your phone.
5) But then again, you won't have to take your phone to the genius bar, because it will be like new again anyway, and all trace of the evil hacker's former presence will be obliterated.
Which is why everyone should change their root password after JBing their iPhone.