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Apple Quietly Drops iOS Jailbreak Detection API

Posted by kdawson on from the if-i-were-to-ask-you dept.

bednarz writes "Without explanation, Apple has disabled a jailbreak detection API in iOS, less than six months after introducing it. Device management vendors say the reasons for the decision are a mystery, but insist they can use alternatives to discover if an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad has been modified so it can load and alter applications outside of Apple's iTunes-based App Store."

7 of 164 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Because they realized it was fruitless by PNutts · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you can jailbreak the phone, you can trick the detection API. Once the system is "untrustable" it is not trustable.

    My God. Someone actually RTFA.

  2. Re:Because they realized it was fruitless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fruitless ....Apple ....

    Ahahahahahahahah! Good one, man!

  3. Apple sells the jailbreak by tepples · · Score: 1, Funny

    You'd think they'd find it better to provide the jailbreak themselves so they can have SOME control over it.

    Apple sells the jailbreak; it just costs $600 for a Mac plus $99 per year.

    1. Re:Apple sells the jailbreak by dunkelfalke · · Score: 3, Funny

      Thanks, Hobson.

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  4. Re:Reasons by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Funny

    I realize you are new here, but it is a long and proud slashdot tradion to not read the linked article. Many really hardcore slashdot users do not even read the summary.

  5. Re:Reasons by grub · · Score: 3, Funny


    Slashdot has summaries?

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  6. Re:drop or hide? by thenextstevejobs · · Score: 4, Funny

    are ya sure it hasn't just been retooled to become super_secret_function()

    I don't think you've seen the iOS SDK.

    I'd guess something more like [NSReallyInternalDeviceIdiomDetector superSecretFunction:host:port:withDelegate:inSection:byAppendingString:context]

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