iOS 4.0.2 available

[cal6n]

Apple's war with jailbreak is getting absolutely ***** ridiculous

They should just leave it alone and let people who want to jailbreak do it.

4.0.2 is Apple's missile against jailbreaking even though JB is PERFECTLY LEGAL.

Don't fool yourself, kid.

This isn't aimed at you or your precious little game. This is aimed at some very bad people who would love to adapt the vulnerability that the devteam have given them into a lot of very serious money-spinners at your (and my) expense.

 

[Jaro65]

But not even for security vulnerabilities? Seems harsh to those still using them.

I don't believe this security vulnerability applies to the old iPhones which can't support iOS 4 to start with.

 

[C8XY]

Don't fool yourself, kid.

This isn't aimed at you or your precious little game. This is aimed at some very bad people who would love to adapt the vulnerability that the devteam have given them into a lot of very serious money-spinners at your (and my) expense.

luckily this little jailbreak game exposed it huh? can you read this from way up there?
Well done Apple for fixing it quickly, well done everyone else for saving your SHSH blobs

 

[C8XY]

I don't believe this security vulnerability applies to the old iPhones which can't support iOS 4 to start with.

Its a zero day vulnerability

 

[T4R06]

so they can upgrade their display iphone at the store

 

[southerndoc]

Wish they would fix the proximity sensor issue. Maybe if somebody found a way to use the proximity problem to jailbreak the iPhone, then Apple would issue a fix for it a lot quicker.

 

[Sherifftruman]

They're not fixing the jailbreak. They've never bothered moving this quick just to fix a jailbreak before.

What they are fixing is the vulnerability that allows the jailbreak. This vulnerability is the first one with the potential to be adapted to place malware on the iPhone to do some real damage and I'm bloody glad they have moved this quick.

Perhaps the devteam could learn from this. Perhaps they could manage their exploits so that they're not a threat to normal users. I doubt it though. I don't believe they're responsible enough.

I agree with everything up till you blame things on the Dev Team. They did not put an exploit on the phone. All they did was take an existing exploit, that can affect every single iPhone out there, Jailbroken or fresh out of the box and use that as a vector to do the jailbreak.

Apple had to release this fix, because if there was no such thing as jailbreaking and Apple let you install antthing right on your phone and it was unlocked out of the box and there was no reason to even think about running anythign but stock firmware, this security flaw would still allow a malicious PDF to do things to your phone. All the Dev Team did was expose it to the light of day, but I am sure hackers would have done so soon anyway.if they have not figured it out already.

 

[colder]

Apple's war with jailbreak is getting absolutely ***** ridiculous

They should just leave it alone and let people who want to jailbreak do it.

4.0.2 is Apple's missile against jailbreaking even though JB is PERFECTLY LEGAL.

They're not fixing it BECAUSE of jailbreakme.

They're fixing it because the vulnerability that jailbreakme exploits could be used to do all kinds of other malicious things.

 

[shadygrove]

Apple's war with jailbreak is getting absolutely ***** ridiculous

They should just leave it alone and let people who want to jailbreak do it.

4.0.2 is Apple's missile against jailbreaking even though JB is PERFECTLY LEGAL.

Or, I am a paying customer that wants a secure phone that doesn't grant root access to websites (or anything) without my explicit permission. I am glad they released the patch to eliminate such vulnerabilities because with this vulnerability doesn't leave the user a choice...

 

[dean04]

Apple is sure quick to "fix" a jailbreak,

while users continue to struggle with the proximity sensor/cheek hang-ups.

+1

 

[shadygrove]

+1

While this issue is extremely annoying, I only get it when I hold the phone against my face with my shoulder or I moving it around a lot. By the far the worst issue.

That said, I would rather have security patched anyday.

 

[nataliamck]

Can someone tell me if upgrading to 4.0.2 is useful?

I really don't like 4.0.1 and I wasn't planning on upgrading to it but my original iphone 4 was stolen and the new one came with 4.0.1 pre-installed.

Is there anyway I can get 4.0 back on my new phone?

 

[macfilm]

Hi, I have a legit iPhone 4 on contract running iOS 4.0.1 and when I connect my iPhone 4 it says I'm already running the latest firmware and so can't update it. Why is this????

 

[ozzyman500]

Don't care what the update is for. I just updated so no stranger could jailbreak my iPhone 4, yet.

 

[Irish Rose]

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Hi, I have a legit iPhone 4 on contract running iOS 4.0.1 and when I connect my iPhone 4 it says I'm already running the latest firmware and so can't update it. Why is this????

Ignore that. Click on the "check for update" link under Version, and it will give you the option to perform the new update. This is how I did it, and had no problems at all.

 

[Irish Rose]

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Don't care what the update is for. I just updated so no stranger could jailbreak my iPhone 4, yet.

Same here. I don't JB my iPhone anyway, so the update was perfectly fine for me, and now my iPhone 4 is safe from hackers for now at least.

 

[colder]

I updated. Seems to be working fine. It took forever to download, though - presumably busyness of the server on their end.

 

[scaredpoet]

Lol, what a WASTE of update. Apple, should have just included this in 4.1 for next month. They could have at least said "bug fixes" and maybe more people would have downloaded it and it could have tricked them.

Actually, I think they did this more because there were panicky petes (like the Government of Germany) who were acting as if this vulnerability would mean that OMG ALL IPHONES ARE HAXXX0RED.

Even I had some idiot IT wannabe at work who saw that warning from Germany, and was badgering everyone who would open his e-mails non-stop about how we should ban all iOS devices until this "serious security flaw" was fixed to avoid "catastrophic damage" to our beloved network.

Now if he keeps it up, I can point to this and shut him up.

 

[Irish Rose]

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I updated. Seems to be working fine. It took forever to download, though - presumably busyness of the server on their end.

Could be the reason. It only took 5 minutes to update my iP4.

 

[zippster]

Apple's war with jailbreak is getting absolutely ***** ridiculous

They should just leave it alone and let people who want to jailbreak do it.

4.0.2 is Apple's missile against jailbreaking even though JB is PERFECTLY LEGAL.

FYI

Jailbreak is NOT legal in the UK.

Thanks

 

[mgamber]

FYI

Jailbreak is NOT legal in the UK.

Thanks

It's not "perfectly legal" in the colonies, either. It's only legal if it's used to unlock the phone. It's still strictly illegal if it's used for software theft.

At this point I don't think I could care any less about Apple updates if I was dead. Screw 'em both.