Tethered Jailbreaks Are Back
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Tethered Jailbreaks Are Back
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#2Interesting that the writers of this article are a company that sells a library to help developers detect their app running on jailbroken devices. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2017/10/12/ios-jailbreak-detect...
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#3Yay!
I have fond memories of my friends (and eventually me, on the family iPad) jailbreaking our devices and doing stuff with them.
A lot of the things I saw from jailbreaks were incorporated into later iOS updates- I'm curious (and excited!) to see what develops out of this wave.
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#4Interesting that the writers of this article are a company that sells a library to help developers detect their app running on jailbroken devices. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2017/10/12/ios-jailbreak-detect...
Ah, yes, the bane of Apple engineers everywhere.
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#5I jailbroke my old iPhones but that was in an earlier less featureful iOS era. I wonder what hackers will be able to provide such that I'd do it on an SE. Curious now as much as I am skeptical.
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#6Interesting that the writers of this article are a company that sells a library to help developers detect their app running on jailbroken devices. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2017/10/12/ios-jailbreak-detect...
>library to help developers detect their app running on jailbroken devices
How does this work? I thought iOS apps are sandboxed to an extent where it shouldn't be possible to snoop around to determine which processes are running and such.
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#7Honestly, if there's a real security risk, I'm surprised Apple hasn't recalled the phones or offered to repair them. Unpatchable firmware flaws are (or should be) no different from hardware flaws in this respect.
Re: Tethered Jailbreaks Are Back
#8Interesting that the writers of this article are a company that sells a library to help developers detect their app running on jailbroken devices. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2017/10/12/ios-jailbreak-detect...
>library to help developers detect their app running on jailbroken devices How does this work? I thought iOS apps are sandboxed to an extent where it shouldn't be possible to snoop around to determine which processes are running and such.
Couldn’t tell you, I know as much as that article says. But I’m guessing that’s part of their secret sauce
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#9Honestly, if there's a real security risk, I'm surprised Apple hasn't recalled the phones or offered to repair them. Unpatchable firmware flaws are (or should be) no different from hardware flaws in this respect.
Apple isn’t really known for doing recalls until they absolutely have to
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#10Honestly, if there's a real security risk, I'm surprised Apple hasn't recalled the phones or offered to repair them. Unpatchable firmware flaws are (or should be) no different from hardware flaws in this respect.
> if there's a real security risk
There is, but it's not that great. You need physical access to the device and it won't be persistent (a reboot will clean it).