I haven't followed the JB scene in years as I didn't have the reason to jailbreak iOS 8/9 yet. What happened to the people who brought us the earlier iOS jailbreaks (iOS 1-7)? Like iOn1c, comex, evad3rs, etc? Jailbreaks for iOS8-9 have all been delivered by Chinese teams Pangu/TaiG which I'm proud of since I'm Chinese, but have the other American/European hackers all gave up on the JB scene?
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What happened to the other jailbreak teams?
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According to a few around here and in other parts, iOn1c teases personal jailbreaks but never releases anything.
The rise of Pangu and Taig came from the fact that with one of the final iOS 7 jailbreaks they used an expired certificate as part of their exploit. Something the other dev teams seemed unwilling to use - in addition to applying some exploits they picked up in a jailbreaking hacking class. That didn't go over very well with the dev teaching the class.
Since then I imagine there is quiet because someone else is doing the work.
The rise of Pangu and Taig came from the fact that with one of the final iOS 7 jailbreaks they used an expired certificate as part of their exploit. Something the other dev teams seemed unwilling to use - in addition to applying some exploits they picked up in a jailbreaking hacking class. That didn't go over very well with the dev teaching the class.
Since then I imagine there is quiet because someone else is doing the work.
I miss the original iphone dev team that brought us redsnow, pwnagetool, jailbreakme, ultrasnow and many other great hacks.
they grew up and are getting big $$ contracting their services to companies. its seems jailbreaking was their little hobby that broke them into their current jobs.
Some of the methods used in some of the Pangu and Taig jailbreaks can only come from outside legal jurisdictions due to possible prosecutions. China is kind of out of the reach of the laws that govern other Dev's
Yeah, Chinese teams are pretty much untouchable from copyrights or tweaking private code.
Very well said.
If for example musclenerd or comex puts out a jb using even the slightest proprietary code used by Apple he can get sued and charged in us court and basically get stuck with tons of legal trouble and millions in damages.
Chinese hacking teams don't play with any rules and can manipulate any code or exploit they want. Can't blame the original iPhone Dev team.
I wouldn't want to get stuck getting sued and chased by a huge multibillion dollar company either. We saw what happened with geohot and Sony.
I still have my 6+/iPad Mini 2/ 5S jailbroken. My 5S lost it's Cydia app (safari cydia:// doesn't work) so I can no longer add or remove anything I have installed although it's still jailbroken.
I had my 6S+ jailbroken for a week but restored it last week after it kept respringing. Since I've restored to 9.2, it's done a respring once.