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Never really looked as 1.99 ain't going to break the bank for me
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'Evasi0n' iOS 7 Jailbreak Controversy Surrounding Piracy and Chinese Partnership
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Cool, didn't know that!
Never really looked as 1.99 ain't going to break the bank for me
Getting paid is no big deal, it's who is doing the paying and the reasons why they're paying.
I've seen lots of hacks and mods be held back behind a funding wall. Nothing wrong with that if the hacker chooses to be compensated.
Not to say all dealings are legit and have no issues, but generally speaking... the Chinese are actually know for being pretty straightforward in their dealings - no strings attached, i.e. "We give you X, we expect Y from you..."
No mile long file print in their contracts...
They always did the work for free in the hopes that they'd get donations and sell their tweaks. That work usually paid off presumably in tens or maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars.
After all, the main objective of jailbreaking was based on principle of device freedom. Selling out like they didrushing the jailbreak, not vetting that Taig app properly, throwing legacy jailbreak scene developers under the bus, etcall of that is what leaves a tainted mark in the eyes of many for this evaders team. In my view, it's not a respectable way about doing business.
i really see nothing wrong. So they probably have agreed to include some chinese piracy app along with the jailbreak for Chinese users. so what. if you don't like piracy don't use it simple as that.
Although they should have waited till Apple released iOS 7.1 publicly. But since they wanted to release it before anyone else did since there were reports that their jailbrake was stolen.
everybody should just back off.
- there is no hard evidence that information is being sent anywhere
- taig has been removed from the jailbreak
- saurik has admitted that he too was aware of taig and he did know about the jailbreak just not the release date
- THESE PEOPLE DESERVE MONEY
- they are donating all contribution to a good cause
- they work their asses off and do they make money? no! but the guys who make tweaks (and arguably work nowhere near as hard as the evaders) get paid!
- do you donate to them? probably you don't. who puts food on their tables.
There may be something else happening behind the sheets, something that goes beyond software piracy, but I'm not going to test it to see what it is.
There are some OSes that are not. In fact there is no reason to believe all OSes are exploitable. From observation over the last 50 years I'd say only a minority of them are.
He's being paid to include a piracy store with the jailbreak. A disgrace to the community.
So he took the $1M and didn't carry out his side of the deal? Haha good. Taig deserves it and worse.
Do you even read? Not to mention it's no longer included in future installs. Jailbreak time, when all the whiners come out.
Yes, I read. Your point? And it is still included, at least according to MacRumors.
"Furthermore, the developers also claim that they were unaware that Taig contained pirated apps upon access, and say they are removing instances of piracy and that Taig had contractually agreed not to serve pirated apps. They say they "will continue to monitor this issue and work to resolve it completely" and that Taig will be removed if it can't be resolved."
So it's still included, but they're "removing" all the pirated stuff. Yeah, like how YouTube makes sure nothing on it is pirated.
Jailbreaking and loving the outlaw
It's nice enough to be able to download apps that do things Apple doesn't want. Cool. It's your phone, blah, blah. But the lyric says, "to live outside the law you must be honest." Unfortunately, most people you find outside the law are not instantly recognizable as purveyors of malware, and so on. The idea of jailbreaking and rooting means taking chances. No thanks.
It's nice enough to be able to download apps that do things Apple doesn't want. Cool. It's your phone, blah, blah. But the lyric says, "to live outside the law you must be honest." Unfortunately, most people you find outside the law are not instantly recognizable as purveyors of malware, and so on. The idea of jailbreaking and rooting means taking chances. No thanks.
If you were honest, why then would you need to life outside the law?
That said, what happens to the one million since the jailbreakers are apparently not living up to the end of their deal? Do they return the money? Or just keep it? What's the worse the app piracy company can do? Report the case to the police?
Yep, no thanks. Anyone who believes the jailbreak community has not been compromised is a fool. Unless your purpose for jailbreaking is piracy...in which case, this is a godsend. This is a sea-change for jailbreakers...a sad day. Even if malicious intent is repelled this time, the future looks bleak for the community.
Anyone who is familiar with the jailbreaker community knows that this isn't the first controversy , geohot, and the guys have always disputed ,
That being said , these guys deserve the money , I don't care about the controversy and I sure as hell love that they're still active ,
This isn't a time to say android rom bull crap
That being said , these guys deserve the money , I don't care about the controversy and I sure as hell love that they're still active ,
This isn't a time to say android rom bull crap
There are a lot of forums are reporting it isn't just a simple App downloader, it also consistently uploading data from the phone to the 360 company server. All the data were encrypted and unknown what its doing.
360 is also known to backdoor people's computer and collect data on record.
Evasi0n really screwed up this time. Money makes people change I guess...
360 is also known to backdoor people's computer and collect data on record.
Evasi0n really screwed up this time. Money makes people change I guess...
I find stock Android insufferable on my Nexus 7. No such suffocating feelings on stock iOS on my iPhone.