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iOS 6 Beta 3 Jailbroken Already
hypnosec writes "Apple launched the iOS 6 Beta 3 just a couple of days back, and the redsn0w team has given out a jailbreak for the latest version of iOS 6 already. The only downside is that this is a tethered jailbreak, which means you will have to make sure your phone is connected to the computer whenever you need to reboot it."
Way to go guys...now they're gonna have it fixed before it's released to the public. Oh, and first post!
Can we stop this already? There is really much less of a technical challenge to make tethered jailbreak working, and much less interesting to the jb community.
So in other words they managed to jailbreak iOS 6 beta 3using a previously known exploit which exploits things that are hard-coded... How is this exciting news? If you exploit hardware you should be able to jailbreak any OS on there, its simply just porting some software. To make it even less exciting this is a tethered jailbreak which means its useless for nearly everyone.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
As an AppleTV owner I care. The hardware is pretty decent, and the add-ons are where the real value is (xbmc for example).
I'm not interested in apple's locked in system and really unhappy with the cat-and-mouse game of apple trying to "close" the system. I had an auto-update break my xbmc once, then i spent a lot of time trying to fix it. flashing the appletv involves sending a signature to apple to confirm this is a valid IOS to load.
This whole 'dmca' type stuff is nonsense. if i bough the hardware, why do you go out of your way to prevent me from doing what i want? If you want to behave like this, then RENT the hardware so you still own it. Why sell me something, then attempt to force me do do only what you want with it?
Get a phone from a company whose policies don't fucking suck, and where you can install whatever fucking software you want without the need to find a vulnerability.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
I don't believe there's an Android app for "perceived social acceptance." :(
Why jailbreak an iOS device?
My job involves benchmarking web pages loading on a celular connection. Real connections have very high variance, so that tests run a minute appart can not be compared. I run dummynet on the phone to simulate a cellular connection in a controlled, repeatable way. Running dummynet requires jail-breaking the device on iOS 5 and below.
As a user, I see no reason to jailbreak, and I would never use a jailbroken device. As a developer, I need to modify low level settings to understand how decices behave.
Most of the JB-ers have never touched Installious. In fact, if the Dev Team could block that thing from being installed, they could. JB-ing != pirating.
Want to know the reason I JB? Simple. There are a number of apps that make life easier. That, plus I like full control of my device. Simple things like tarring up some files or having a very secure stash for my gpg keys (where I can pipe files through a ssh to the device for signing/decryption) that are doable with a UNIX prompt, but no apps.
As for JB apps, here are a few:
1: 3G Unrestrictor -- I pay per gig for bandwidth, if I want to download a multi-gig app, I should be able to.
2: iBlacklist. iOS6 has rudimentary functionality for dealing with unwanted callers, but there are some numbers which you don't want to hear or read texts from, period. Having an app for that is a lot cheaper than getting a restraining order.
3: AppBackup. There is no way on iOS to copy off a game's save files, delete the app, then later on, reinstall the app and have the save files at the ready. Yes, a few apps store their files in Documents, but that is the exception.
4: Backgrounder. Woodall's Maps needs to have foreground access to complete its large downloads, so either have to keep it in the foreground, or use an app to make it think it is there.
5: Protect My Privacy. iOS hands out contact info freely to any app that asks for it. This protects against spamming of contacts.
6: Firewall IP. You would be SHOCKED at what apps try to connect to. Way too many targeting, tracking and ad sites.
So, don't assume all jailbreakers are pirates. Most of us actually pay for what we use.
There is something wierd in linked site: http://paritynews.com/software/item/66-ios-6-beta-3-jailbroken-already
It displays a warning at the bottom of the page telling site experience is better with cookies enabled. There are two buttons to allow for this site or allow for all, both linking to "#" without javascript onclick. Probably harmless, but weird.
"Why sell me something, then attempt to force me do do only what you want with it?"
Are you serious?
Because that's what they advertised it to do.
Because that's what they have to guarantee it do.
Because that's what they have to support it to do.
Letting you do whatever you want with it undermines their ability ensure it does what it should during their legal warranty period and beyond. What do you think happens when an infrastructure update breaks on your device because you've screwed with it - and you bitch and moan all over internets !
Having said that, I am strongly of the 'open hardware' view but I do understand their business problem - definitely not a apple fanboi so don't go there
Ideally they really need to sell 'open' hardware at a premium (for lost revenue stream that otherwise subsidises the hardware) with no warranty/no support and let you do whatever you want with it - basically the PC hardware model.
Ideally they really need to sell 'open' hardware at a premium (for lost revenue stream that otherwise subsidises the hardware) with no warranty/no support and let you do whatever you want with it - basically the PC hardware model.
Who's to say they don't already? Knowing how to "jailbreak" is the cost of entry. Look at the OSX86 world. It's not like every OS update they're making it impossible to do with installation keys and a phone home. If you make it so that anyone can do it I'm suddenly going to get support calls from my aunts who read all the cool stuff you can do with the iPhone. Toss it behind a 'jail break' and they suddenly automatically remove the warranty issues, idiots that don't know what they're doing, etc.
Why is it that there are so many foul mouthed, rabid comments by detractors of iOS all over the interwebs? I would like to believe that these folks are paid shills; it would make more sense.
I love FOSS, I run Ubuntu Linux on a Mac Pro, and I own a jailbroken iPhone on which I can install whatever I want using dpkg and apt-get (yes, Debian tools are the jailbreakers' favorite ones).
I have tried Android, and while I love the fact that Android is based on Linux, I have found that a jailbroken iPhone offers me much of the same flexibility.
Frankly, I wish jailbreaking an iOS device was impossible. Why? Because it might actually stop people from considering iOS devices as worth buying, because of what they can do when jailbroken. As long as its easy to climb over the walls the gardener builds around his garden, far fewer people care that the walls are there in the first place.
As users, we should have the ability to run whatever damn software we please on the hardware we've bought. And no, we shouldn't have to hack our devices for that privilege. Yes, even software that the platform vendor doesn't approve of.
(Every time Microsoft even ponders things for PCs that vaguely resemble what Apple does on iOS, the community screams for blood. I only wish the same level of anger, from the same individuals, would get pointed at Apple once in a while.)
I can install whatever fucking software I want. It's called a developer license.
Seriously, WTF is your problem at all? I've yet to find a software outside the App Store (i.e. available only for jailbroken iPhones or iPads) that I really need.
So, for all practical purposes, there is no issue here. I do see the philosophical argument, which is why my heart is with the jailbreakers. But for my day-to-day usage, I don't need it, and neither do millions of other people. So why are you so angry?
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