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Apple Outs Anti-Jailbreak Update

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the longer-than-i'd-expect dept.

Stoobalou writes "Apple has issued an emergency update for devices running the iOS 4 mobile operating system. iOS 4.0.2 plugs the security hole exploited by the iPhone Dev Team to allow pain-free jailbreaking of the iPhone 4 and its manifold siblings as well as... actually, that's about it."

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  1. Re:Outing the update by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Funny
    -1, flamebait? WTF?!
    1. Apple Computer was just outside of San Francisco
    2. They've been trying to whitewash it since 1988, but before that, Apple was proudly flying the freak flag since 1977
    3. have you seen Jobs ? (BTW, I find that file name amusing...)
    4. they have a long history of catering to "graphic designers"
    5. they're very concerned with maintaining a hip, stylish persona
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  2. Re:Why does the submitter see this as a bad thing? by BarryJacobsen · · Score: 5, Funny

    In modern parlance, "bricked" means "mildly inconvenienced for about 30 minutes" rather than "made completely inoperable to the point where the hardware is now about as useful as a standard brick" and "zero day" means "sometime within the next 5 years after the actual software was released in the first place."

    Well, hell hath no fury like a geek who's been mildly inconvenienced.

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