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Apple Releases iOS 4.3.4 to Address Latest Jailbreaking Vulnerability
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I never understood why PDFs need superuser privilege... Don't really get how Apple missed this.
One thing you jailbreakers have to realize is that if Apple truly wanted to stop jailbreaking, they would delete cydia.app off your iPhones each update. As far as I know they don't.
One thing you jailbreakers have to realize is that if Apple truly wanted to stop jailbreaking, they would delete cydia.app off your iPhones each update. As far as I know they don't.
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Maybe because this isn't about preventing Jailbreaking. It's about plugging a serious security flaw.
Yes. I would line up to buy an iPhone if it could not be jailbroken. If that were the case and I needed a phone to jailbreak I would buy a different phone. Possibly an Android. Oh, wait... Awhile back Google issued a patch for a bug that also stopped jailbreaking: http://gizmodo.com/5079259/google-seals-up-android-jailbreak-in-automatic-update
Patching a security hole such as this -- for which there is demonstrated exploit -- & doing so quickly is within Apple's best interests. But of course they shall react at the speed of closed-source commercial giants, which is hardly very quickly at all.
Days ago I installed the PDF Patcher fix in Cydia..already backed up my 4.3.3 blob so Im fine right?..oh and I didnt plan on upgrading anyway I am happy with my iPad 2 jailbroken on 4.3.3 
I was curious about this, so I tested it with an iPad- I had jailbroken it with the recent web only exploit - played with it a little bit - don't think jailbreaking is all that for me- updated to 4.3.4 and everything is just back like before I jail broke. It just worked. .
They do. They do full updates which reinstalls the whole system thus removing Cydia. You have to rejailbreak when a jailbreak comes out for that firmware. That is why it is advised to not upgrade if you want to be jailbroken.
We'll see how it goes when Apple starts doing delta updates in 5.0.
UN-JBroken 4G iphone running 4.3.3. Second attempt to install update. Getting message, "This phone is not eligible for this update". ??????????
I'll be updating mine. I used to be all over jailbreaking on both iPhone and iPad but, these days, I just go vanilla. Did jb my ipad2 briefly but, aside from a couple of nice tweaks like no lock screen and split mail, all the other stuff largely goes unused and I always feel, maybe wrongly, that it slows it down a little bit. Really, multitasking and gestures arriving essentially killed by need for jailbreak.
Plus, and this is probably just me, I often found I spent more time tweaking and fiddling with it than actually using it! Fun in it's own way, but theres other stuff I'd rather be doing, my attention span is bad enough as it is
Good to have the option for those that want it though, absolutely.
Plus, and this is probably just me, I often found I spent more time tweaking and fiddling with it than actually using it! Fun in it's own way, but theres other stuff I'd rather be doing, my attention span is bad enough as it is
Good to have the option for those that want it though, absolutely.
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iOS 5 betas have already been jailbroken.
The iPhone 4, iPad, iPod touch 4th generation, iPhone 3GS, previous iPhones and iPods are all permanently jailbreakable thanks to limera1n and other exploits. Only the iPad 2 is not yet permanently jailbreakable.
All 4.3.4 does is fix the vulnerability that gave the iPad 2 a jailbreak. All other devices are still jailbreakable.
Glad this security hole has been fixed, not because it prevents jailbreaking but because it could have led to malicious software or code be executed on phones without a user having to do anything more than navigate to a site.
But my god this points out the need more than ever for delta updates! Thank god they've done this in iOS 5
But my god this points out the need more than ever for delta updates! Thank god they've done this in iOS 5
Read the update info, and some of the more cogent posts on this forum. Apple is merely patching a vulnerability.
Much like the last PDF vulnerability, this one was caused by bugs in the open source FreeType library that Apple uses.
4.3.4 is a huge improvement for my iPod Touch 4.
We're talking about an incredible increase of the speed.
Well done apple!
We're talking about an incredible increase of the speed.
Well done apple!
You mean if the security hole had been used just for some proof-of-concept malware attack instead of for jailbreaking, Apple would not have fixed it as fast?
I can think of no reason why anybody would not want Apple to fix this security hole. You seem to advocate that Apple should leave the vast majority of its customers vulnerable to a zero-day exploit just so that a minority has it easier to jailbreak their device.
Or can you give me another explanation why considering fixing a security hole a good thing is crap?
The point is not how long it has existed, the point is how long it was known. Can you point me to a reference as to when this hole was first publicised?
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Shhh! You can't tell people that Apple uses many open source components in their software! It'll ruin it for those ignorant people who like to say "Apple is a closed OS"
EDIT: Yes, I am aware that Apple is not an OS and that MacOS and iOS should have been put in there but its quicker to type Apple (however lengthier to write this explanation).
Well they can't. Perhaps for future devices they can try, but it's not gonna happen.
Why exactly does this bother you anyway, as I assume you're not jailbroken