looks like im staying stock. that's a huge privacy killer. i don't have anything to hide on there but i will not let pangu access my photos. nope. should have stayed on 8.4. regretting this a lot already
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when you launch the pangu app while jailbreaking, if you read the text on screen, it asks to allow access to photos... kinda creepy. not worth it in my opinion.
why don't you restore to stock. JB then set up your phone as new then? JB it without having any photos on the phone.
i'm going to delete all my photos first, then jailbreak and then resync them when i make sure access to pangu is turned off.
It needs access to the phone's DCIM folder (which it can't touch as an app sandboxed without your permission) to be able to write some data for a privilege escalation bug.
You can check Settings>privacy>photos once the jailbreak process is completed. This will show you it's gone afterwards.
why are you freaking out? its part of the jailbreak, its one of the vulnerabilities that pangu was able to take advantage of, it never looks at your photos, it just asks for permission so that it can get in through an iOS backdoor.
stop crying and go jailbreak, or dont, but dont go crying about it
stop crying and go jailbreak, or dont, but dont go crying about it
well, just as i was going to try again, my windows 10 beta ran out. i hope vista works. thats the only other windows version i have...
There are things that are necessary to jailbreak. Those things require certain other things of the user.
If trust is an issue with you, and it sounds as if it is, then you may wish to reconsider jailbreaking, because jailbreaking relies on a certain amount of trust within the community.
If trust is an issue with you, and it sounds as if it is, then you may wish to reconsider jailbreaking, because jailbreaking relies on a certain amount of trust within the community.
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You sure you're "done" completely?
Once the jailbreak is over and you restore your data there is no Pangu app anymore.
This is not an issue guys.
http://imgur.com/0RM6nxr
Yea it completed the process and said the jsilbreak was done. and Cydia works fine with a handful of tweaks.
But then I also still have the pangu icon anyone else?
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lol this thread made my day 
those creepy chinese hacx0rs wants to steal my nudes!
those creepy chinese hacx0rs wants to steal my nudes!
How's it a privacy killer when your phone is in Airplane mode when it requests permission for photos?
LMAO. This x10000. OP is concerned about photo privacy when she has nothing to hide, but is willing to jailbreak a phone in the first place? Give me a break.
This thread was totally necessary BTW.
lol this thread made my day
those creepy chinese hacx0rs wants to steal my nudes!
There is only one nude shot on my 6s and that is one my wife took off me and to be fair if they took that they would give it back after one look at it.
Stop freaking out, nobody is going to steal your nude selfies
Access is needed for the JB exploits that's all.
Win10 is out of beta, why don't you just install it over Vista? It's free and you have a month to roll back.
Because everyone on the airplane will be able to see his pics.
I apologize if this is a dumb question: Does changing the openSSH password and then uninstalling remove most of the risk involved with jailbreaking iOS. Also only installing from the standard repos. Are there other ways to implement security yourself.
You don't need to change the passwords if you don't install OpenSSH. Removing OpenSSH removes any necessity to change the password. In both cases, because OpenSSH is not installed there is no route to the device. Because there is no route to the device it's not possible to hack via OpenSSH (because OpenSSH is not present).
As far as other security features: iCaughtU Pro, PLS Recovery are two I can name off the top of my head. Activator, used to disable a long press of the hold button on the lockscreen (so the phone can't be shut off) works too. There's also a tweak that lets you set a passcode/password to open apps.
I'm not sure if any of those work on iOS 9 yet however.