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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:Why does the submitter see this as a bad thing? by dsavi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As well as this not being a bad thing, why is this even news? We all knew that Apple would try to put a stop to it the moment we saw what Jailbreakme could do.

  2. Re:Why does the submitter see this as a bad thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Because this is Slashdot and here everything that Apple does is considered pure evil. If you think otherwise you are a fanboi.

  3. iPhone is slave-pod rubbish anyway by Marcion · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why buy a device that you cannot control? If I buy a device I expect to be root by default, not to have to jailbreak through some random PDF exploit. iPhone turns its users into digital serfs.

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