Apple Bans Jailbreakers From the App Store

Hugh Pickens writes "Adam Mills writes in the Examiner that Apple has been cutting off access to the iTunes App Store for iPhone hackers and jailbreakers. Sherif Hashim, the iPhone developer who successfully hacked the iPhone OS 3.1.3 and unlocked the 05.12.01 baseband for iPhone 3GS and 3G devices, discovered he'd been cut off and twittered: '"Your Apple ID was banned for security reasons," that's what i get when i try to go to the app store, they must be really angry.' Another hacker, iH8Sn0w, who is behind the Sn0wbreeze tool, confirms that his account has also been deactivated even though iH8sn0w's exploit had only been revealed to Dev Team, the group responsible for the PwnageTool. 'It is kind of surprising that two people associated with jailbreaking have had this happen to them so soon after one another, but it's too early to say if this is a campaign that Apple is starting up,' writes Mills."

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[Kludge]

For goodness sake, who gives a crap about the stupid iphone? I remember when slashdot was a site that made fun of people who bought crap like iphones and then whined about it. Now it's a bunch of whiners.
If you want a really great phone that you can hack on and a company who actually likes you for it, get an n900. I love mine (and I am in no way affiliated w/ Nokia).

You think like a ReThuglican Jew

[Anonymous Coward]

You think like a ReThuglican Jew

Re:What are the security risks?

[Lars T.]

Ermm what? You asked what risk a jail broken IPhone poses to yourself. Live with it.