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HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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post #8

What use cases do you see this having? Just curious

I'm guessing being able to send any audio stream, for example your computer audio, so you can use Spotify or anything playing at your computer.

Someone did this without the need of jailbreak for Sonos speakers, although it has some delay so was not good for movies or games.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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post #8

What use cases do you see this having? Just curious

My understanding is that Apple has still not mastered the exotic voodoo of “streaming arbitrary audio to the speaker from a computing device”. Perhaps someone can now assist them with this Herculean undertaking.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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I still love jailbreaking. I got an iPhone when they first came out in Canada. They guy who sold it convinced me to change my plan to include video messages. When I got home I realized the phone didn’t have the ability to take videos. Those who are unaware there just was no video app when the phone first came out as crazy as that sounds. I started searching how to take a video and to my surprise you can not unless you happen to jailbreak it and use the camera app on cydia. From that point on I saw the benefit of jailbreaking. I am considering jailbreaking again after my device suddenly became blocked from tinder I am a gentleman and not sure why I was banned but it annoyed me and one day will probably jailbreak again just to bypass the ban. I think if the iphones ever fully locked down I would try a different brand.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

#15
post #3

Can the link be switched to https://twitter.com/_L1ngL1ng_/status/1329552467240116236 , the actual source of the news?

Especially since the source sucks, with “gems” like > Every Apple device, including the T2 security chip, has been jailbroken with checkra1n so far. and “jailbreaking makes your device insecure”.

Jailbreaking DOES break the security model though. Its literally performed to "break the jail". It takes a locked down system and removes the locks, resulting in a system that is more open; to yourself and an attacker alike.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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post #14

I still love jailbreaking. I got an iPhone when they first came out in Canada. They guy who sold it convinced me to change my plan to include video messages. When I got home I realized the phone didn’t have the ability to take videos. Those who are unaware there just was no video app when the phone first came out as crazy as that sounds. I started searching how to take a video and to my surprise you can not unless yo…

> Those who are unaware there just was no video app when the phone first came out as crazy as that sounds.

Considering it was a poor quality 2 megapixel sensor with fixed focus up until the iPhone 3GS, you weren’t missing much by not having video. Like to put it in perspective, even the photos it took were utterly horrid in comparison to today. But we also need to keep perspective, in 2007-2009 no phone I can think of had a better camera, let alone a mainstream one.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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post #14

I still love jailbreaking. I got an iPhone when they first came out in Canada. They guy who sold it convinced me to change my plan to include video messages. When I got home I realized the phone didn’t have the ability to take videos. Those who are unaware there just was no video app when the phone first came out as crazy as that sounds. I started searching how to take a video and to my surprise you can not unless yo…

> Those who are unaware there just was no video app when the phone first came out as crazy as that sounds. Considering it was a poor quality 2 megapixel sensor with fixed focus up until the iPhone 3GS, you weren’t missing much by not having video. Like to put it in perspective, even the photos it took were utterly horrid in comparison to today. But we also need to keep perspective, in 2007-2009 no phone I can think o…

> you weren’t missing much by not having video

The point is that even though it was not great quality you could do it by using a jailbreak. The other advanced feature I used a jb to do was... add wallpaper to my homescreen

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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post #14

I still love jailbreaking. I got an iPhone when they first came out in Canada. They guy who sold it convinced me to change my plan to include video messages. When I got home I realized the phone didn’t have the ability to take videos. Those who are unaware there just was no video app when the phone first came out as crazy as that sounds. I started searching how to take a video and to my surprise you can not unless yo…

> Those who are unaware there just was no video app when the phone first came out as crazy as that sounds. Considering it was a poor quality 2 megapixel sensor with fixed focus up until the iPhone 3GS, you weren’t missing much by not having video. Like to put it in perspective, even the photos it took were utterly horrid in comparison to today. But we also need to keep perspective, in 2007-2009 no phone I can think o…

Sony Ericsson Cybershot phones had decent cameras back then, at least compared to the initial iPhones
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