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iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak

Posted by Unknown on from the evading-evasion dept.

hypnosec writes "Apple released iOS 6.1.3 beta 2 to developers, patching at least one of the vulnerabilities used by evasi0n thereby rendering the jailbreak tool useless — the time zone settings vulnerability. David Wang aka @planetbeing, has confirmed that iOS 6.1.3 beta 2 does patch one of the vulnerabilities that they exploited in their evasi0n tool."

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  1. Re:The Apple Monoculture: by cshark · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right. That's exactly it. It's a clear message to power users, and it's hard to mistake it for anything else. What they're saying is, "don't buy our gadgets."

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  2. Vulnerabilities by thadman08 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is there so much outrage at this? Jailbreaking works by first finding bugs and vulnerabilities and then exploiting them. Yes, Apple is preventing jailbreaking, but they're also securing their OS.

  3. Re:The Apple Monoculture: by Microlith · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Caveats, caveats everywhere.

    Android, even on devices with a locked bootloader, allows for installation of software from sources other than the Play Store. On iOS devices, you cannot install any software from sources other than the App Store, period.

    Android vendors that lock the bootloader quite often catch a lot of shit, so I don't really see how this is equivalent.