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Apple Outs Anti-Jailbreak Update
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."
This is where all the Fanboi's tell us that this is good because Apples says so, but it would be evil if Microsoft said it.
Please, at least tell me you own stock? Then at least there would be some logic to your position.
No you didn't get frosty fucking piss, so I guess your cunt isn't icy.
Why buy a device that you cannot control?
AH HA!! What an original point! Mod parent UP! Slashdot should just have a script that writes comments like this when it sees 'Apple' or 'Jailbreak' in the summary.. actually, this comment usually shows up in every thread on every article... Maybe it should be subtext on every summary..
http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/8/12/jailbreak-hackers-unleash-exploit-code/ Unless people update really soon, assorted malware could cut a swath through the iOS 4 user base.
So fags might get diseases from having intercourse with other fags. Oh dear oh no. iPhone Aids!
plugs the security hole exploited by the iPhone Dev Team to allow pain-free jailbreaking of the iPhone 4...
The harder Apple fights to lock the phones the more it will push developers and power users to Android.
Although we've seen plenty of examples that the more open platform doesn't always win, in this case the open platform also has big time corporate backing and service. Android is a viable alternative to iPhone, for many people the superior alternative.
Apple has been pursuing the walled kingdom strategy for so long, I don't think they even consider other models. There's no compromise. Apple's way or the Java highway.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
By basic functionality, I mean things like tethering, which just worked on my five year old dirt cheap feature phone that I threw away in the trash six months ago - at one time that required jailbreaking on the Iphone, not sure if that's the case with the latest version. Or running unapproved apps, which works on major platforms like Symbian and Android with just a simple option change.
It's a sad day in computing if being able to run applications on your own device that haven't been approved by the one company is seen as "advanced functionality". That's exactly the sort of worrying mentality that platforms like the Iphone are leading us.
I never made any claims as to how many people might need these; just the fact that these were basic, in terms of being available on older, and more basic (in terms of hardware specs), phones. But if you do want to talk in terms of what consumers want, the fact that Nokia sell around twice as many phones per quarter than Apple have ever sold says it all in terms of providing what customers want.
It isn't just anti-jailbreak, it's patching a pretty serious security flaw.
Well, if they had taken longer, it would have been a story about Apple taking so long to fix a security hole - now its a story about Apple hurrying to stop people from jailbreaking.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
The problematic part is that iPhone 2G users won't get an update but are still susceptible to this bug
Pardon? iOS 3.2.2 came out today, that's installable on iPhone 2G, and fixes the issue.