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Apple Investigating iOS Vulnerability Allowing Web-Based Jailbreak
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Actually, the more you lock it down, the harder people will look for the holes.
To avoid these holes from being found, Apple should allow non-App Store apps to be installed.
It seems that you don't agree with the crowd out there, that says that OS X does not get viruses/worms because of its superior design, unix roots, blah, blah, ....
I like it. It's the most simple of sentences possible.
We're, a noun saying who.
investigating, a verb saying what who is doing.
It's very concise. If only my writing could convey so much meaning in so few words.
Maybe I should swap to Latin, a single word, investigamus, we are investigating.
I will only do that if those who used this jailbreak hack have had personal information stolen from their phones.
This is the opposite of logic. Even if this sort of logic worked, it would be better to open up the OS to remove the motivation -- the motivation, in this case, being able to do what you wish with a device you have purchased. There's also no magical (no matter what Apple's marketing says, Steve Jobs is not a wizard) method to "lock down" an OS more than Apple has already tried to do. Well, unless you encase the iPhone in concrete. I'm sure that'd slow down jailbreakers.
Furthermore, even suggesting that is a silly idea. That sort of concept is generally called "security through obscurity" -- i.e., security holes aren't a problem if no one knows about them. Which is absolutely useless, as those with truly malicious intent (instead of 'phone freedom' intent) will be searching for this kind of hole anyway, and exploiting it in much more nefarious ways -- such as getting a root shell on your phone and using it to dump all your contact information, your iTunes password, your e-mail password, and anything else remotely of value they can get.
To a degree I agree, much like the way the open source dev community has benefitted Linux which as an open source OS has had the advantage of thousands of developers working worldwide to address and patch security flaws as they are discovered.
I unlocked for the first time with this update. I am a busy professional without time to tinker around and the ease of unlocking was incredible. I am traveling abroad, so I need an unlock, which should be released momentarily.
Anyways, in the meantime, I'm enjoying
1) facetime over 3G
2) wireless synching
3) turning my phone into a wireless hotspot
Since I have the ability to restore the phone in the event of a warranty claim issue, I really had nothing to loose with unlocking.
Anyways, in the meantime, I'm enjoying
1) facetime over 3G
2) wireless synching
3) turning my phone into a wireless hotspot
Since I have the ability to restore the phone in the event of a warranty claim issue, I really had nothing to loose with unlocking.
The jailbreaking will never stop - Apple making a bigger deal out of it will only increase the speed. It always works that way.
"The ability to do whatever you want with an item that you purchased"
I agree to a point. I've always said that people who can afford a product should be able to use that product to its maximum power. If you work hard and can afford a Viper, you should be able to go 198 mph on the interstate.
But the Viper goes 198 WITHOUT any modification from its original factory settings...
If you can afford an iPhone and are savvy enough to jailbreak it, go ahead. But please stop implying that iPhones are trash or are unusable or aren't as good as Android until they're jailbroken. Some of us like our Apple products just the way the came from the factory.
I agree to a point. I've always said that people who can afford a product should be able to use that product to its maximum power. If you work hard and can afford a Viper, you should be able to go 198 mph on the interstate.
But the Viper goes 198 WITHOUT any modification from its original factory settings...
If you can afford an iPhone and are savvy enough to jailbreak it, go ahead. But please stop implying that iPhones are trash or are unusable or aren't as good as Android until they're jailbroken. Some of us like our Apple products just the way the came from the factory.
Very funny to see a jail breakers frustration when half way through the jail break the 3G drops out or the dudes phone is bricked during the process... or even better the web site is hijacked in the near future and all these phones are bricked... three cheers for the dev team!
They already commented on that, if I remember correctly. If the fix isn't out yet, I doubt their comment would be any different. Soon, hopefully.
Is it bad that I always convert Steve's and Apple's messages into Latin and see how short they are, too?
Why would Apple officially frown upon doing something legal with your phone. They sound a little draconian to me. But hey, anything that makes the un-hackable unix based and most advanced OS in the world even less hackable works for me!
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The LoC gave unlocking a DMCA exception. It didn't say hardware or software manufacturers have to go along with it.
It's completely against the interest of people who make smartphones to show off all the messy internals to end users. The vast majority of them don't care, and the ones that do are going to do it no matter what, so why waste time and money reminding them that they're voiding their warranty?
