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Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by achompas »

imissmyjuno wrote: post #132
antirez wrote: post #127

Not worth it because the parallel jailbroken world instead of being something full of free and interesting things is poor and full of things that you need to pay for, but, 5 times the average app price on iTunes. I'm not going to get instabilities and hard to upgrade devices just for SBSettings or alike. Unfortunately too many people only jailbreak so that they can install software for free. That said it completely s…

Please don't lump everyone wanting to JB into the same (laughable, to me) SBSettings or the even more presumptuous pirating use cases. For example, I'm in Canada, and my favourite music service is Grooveshark (Spotify is not available). The only way to get the Grooveshark iOS app is through jailbreaking.

Agreed--I'm in for f.lux

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by bobbles »

justinwr wrote: post #51

The last time I jailbroke my devices they slowed to a crawl and crashed frequently. Felt like I had installed Windows on my iOS device. I'd much rather have my walled garden of reliable bliss. I'll still donate to the cause however. Keep up the fine work gents! :)

It would have been the apps that you installed, not the jailbreak itself.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by antirez »

imissmyjuno wrote: post #132
antirez wrote: post #127

Not worth it because the parallel jailbroken world instead of being something full of free and interesting things is poor and full of things that you need to pay for, but, 5 times the average app price on iTunes. I'm not going to get instabilities and hard to upgrade devices just for SBSettings or alike. Unfortunately too many people only jailbreak so that they can install software for free. That said it completely s…

Please don't lump everyone wanting to JB into the same (laughable, to me) SBSettings or the even more presumptuous pirating use cases. For example, I'm in Canada, and my favourite music service is Grooveshark (Spotify is not available). The only way to get the Grooveshark iOS app is through jailbreaking.

Sure, too many people but definitely not everybody, and I just talk for what I see, that is, the population here in Italy that I can monitor directly (however in Italy there is a strong inclination for software piracy).

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by 0x0 »

jevinskie wrote: post #141
0x0 wrote: post #20

Some interesting strings from the binary. Hopefully there will be a write-up explaining the exploit in detail soon. /var/mobile/DemoApp.app Media/Recordings/.haxx/DemoApp.app/Info.plist Media/Recordings/.haxx/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist Media/Recordings/.haxx/timezone Media/Recordings/.haxx/var/evasi0n/evasi0n Edit: I also spotted a few references to Racoon, the VPN client which I think was abu…

Here is a more detailed analysis: http://blog.accuvantlabs.com/blog/bthomas/evasi0n-jailbreaks... The lazy binding is really interesting. There is lots of interesting stuff in the kernel, dyld, and libSystem. I would encourage you to have a look! You can do interesting things like run code before libSystem_init[1] [0]: https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/dyld/tree/master/src https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libs…

Nice analysis. According to twitter, there's something more to it, though, there still seems to be some sort of kernel memory corruption exploit:

https://twitter.com/kernelpool/status/298714209187921921

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by casca »

hn-miw-i wrote: post #120
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?

The most important part of jb for me is the ability to run an host based firewall, and have per application rules. I use FirewallIP on iOS 5, I hope it works on iOS 6. I block hundreds of ad and tracking servers as global policy. This functionality doesnt exist on android... I've yet to find anything except moxies firmware for the nexus (now MIA) that has this.

I've been running FirewallIP on iOS 6 for a few months now, it works great.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by JonnieCache »

jpxxx wrote: post #154
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.

To be clear, you're arguing that [Apple doesn't show adequate concern] about (a theoretical) security (risk to a handset that was discontinued 2 years, 8 months ago)?

3 years should not be the lifecycle of a highly advanced device costing many hundreds of dollars. That is utterly insane.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by yareally »

haxxorfreak wrote: post #89
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?

AdBlock in MobileSafari is also nice

Jailbreaking doesn't let you write to /etc/hosts?

disclaimer: ignorant, but curious Android user.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by xmodem »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #82
StavrosK wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing, of course.

In which case I'm surprised there wasn't a widespread epidemic of malware infected iOS devices.

Because that would require someone to invest time and money in writing malware which will only ever make it on to a handful of devices and will be removed when those devices are updated.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by jiggy2011 »

xmodem wrote: post #168
jiggy2011 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In which case I'm surprised there wasn't a widespread epidemic of malware infected iOS devices.

Because that would require someone to invest time and money in writing malware which will only ever make it on to a handful of devices and will be removed when those devices are updated.

There are a huge number of iphones in circulation. If the malware had jailbroken privileges would it not be able to disable the update mechanism on the phone?

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by antirez »

sciurus wrote: post #147
antirez wrote: post #127

Not worth it because the parallel jailbroken world instead of being something full of free and interesting things is poor and full of things that you need to pay for, but, 5 times the average app price on iTunes. I'm not going to get instabilities and hard to upgrade devices just for SBSettings or alike. Unfortunately too many people only jailbreak so that they can install software for free. That said it completely s…

Enabling tethering is a strong motivation to jailbreak.

sorry here in Italy it is enabled by default with all the operators so I was not aware of that.
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