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Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

#101

Post by britta »

nwh wrote: post #86
natem345 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple will want to rapidly patch this either way. They still see it as a large security flaw, even if it needs a physical connection, and they hate jailbreaking.

4.2.1 is still vulnerable to a remote safari exploit, capable of gaining root. There's no way for iPhone 3G users to update past that point. They don't care about security.

Do you mean the JailbreakMe web-based exploits? JailbreakMe is not available for iOS 4.2.1. It's available for 3.1.2-4.0.1 and 4.3-4.3.3 - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe#Compatible_iOS_vers... for details.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by britta »

nitrogen wrote: post #99
gfodor wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citation needed. Do you really think that software pirates with jailbroken iPhones that have their phones loaded up with the latest popular apps would not spring the 20 bucks or so in the app store to buy them if it were hard to pirate them? The "no opportunity cost associated with piracy" canard held water in the days where lots of commercial software was reasonably outside the reach of your average individual who w…

Not the OP, but the only people I've heard of pirating apps are those for whom $20 is the difference between eating and starving (e.g. students whose phone is paid for by family, but their food and apps are not).

A number of people pirating apps are people who don't have the App Store available in their countries, and some others are children and young teenagers who don't have their own money to buy things online (with parents who aren't interested in helping them buy games).

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

#103

Post by kalleboo »

Gurrewe wrote: post #41

The last time I had a jailbroken phone was at the time of iOS 2, back then I didn't think it was worth it. What has changed in the last four years?

I want to do it so I can enable LTE on my network that Apple doesn't have a special deal with

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

#104

Post by drbawb »

RandallBrown wrote: post #70
JonnieCache wrote: post #24

Shame it doesn't happen in the browser this time around. That PDF exploit last year was slick.

The original jailbreak was a browser exploit too. I believe it involved serving up a malformed TIFF. I remember stories of people going and jailbreaking every iPhone and iPod touch in the apple stores.

I remember an early PSP jailbreak (SKU PSP-1000/-2000) being based on an exploit in libtiff through an image loaded in the browser.

I wonder if it was the same exploit.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

#105

Post by slajax »

slushieman wrote: post #84
evoxed wrote: post #64

Am I the only one getting a stream of NetDB errors (with the occasional HTTP 500 or 502)? I guess I'll just have to wait until... whatever server it's trying to connect to is up and running. I haven't had a chance to install a single package yet. Edit: Popping over to r/jailbreak confirms it, I guess it'll be a while before things calm down. I just hope I can get f.lux before I have to go to work.

Confirming this as well... If you see this error, NetDB, Failed to fetch, etc., it is not any problem with your iDevice, Cydia, the jailbreak, or really anything at all. In fact, if you are seeing this right now on 2/4/2013, it most likely means everything is working properly! The servers that provide the apps, the 'sources', are overloaded with people trying to download. Waiting until the servers are less loaded is…

Me too.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

#106

Post by Finster »

MichaelGG wrote: post #30
JonnieCache wrote: post #24

Shame it doesn't happen in the browser this time around. That PDF exploit last year was slick.

If it was a browser exploit, wouldn't that put all users at a great risk, and also put more pressure on Apple to rapidly patch?

IIRC, the first jailbreakme.com used a PDF exploit that Apple patched REALLY fast, for the very reason you cited.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

#107

Post by Xuzz »

britta wrote: post #101
nwh wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

4.2.1 is still vulnerable to a remote safari exploit, capable of gaining root. There's no way for iPhone 3G users to update past that point. They don't care about security.

Do you mean the JailbreakMe web-based exploits? JailbreakMe is not available for iOS 4.2.1. It's available for 3.1.2-4.0.1 and 4.3-4.3.3 - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe#Compatible_iOS_vers... for details.

Yeah, but there's nothing stopping someone from porting JailbreakMe to 4.2.1 — it already works on 4.2.8 for the Verizon iPhone 4, and the other versions are similar enough. The hardest part would be the CPU (armv6 vs armv7), but it's clearly possible.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

#109

Post by wvenable »

Gurrewe wrote: post #41

The last time I had a jailbroken phone was at the time of iOS 2, back then I didn't think it was worth it. What has changed in the last four years?

You can enable chrome as the default browser and allow it to use the Nitro engine.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

#110

Post by stock_toaster »

seanc722 wrote: post #60
Gurrewe wrote: post #41

The last time I had a jailbroken phone was at the time of iOS 2, back then I didn't think it was worth it. What has changed in the last four years?

I do like having OpenVPN and better wireless scanning/details.

there is a official openvpn support in the appstore now, fyi.
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