iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak

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."

Comments

The Apple Monoculture:

[Hartree]

Apple: Doing our best to remind you it's OUR gadget, not yours.

Re:The Apple Monoculture:

[cshark]

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."

Re:The Apple Monoculture:

[Microlith]

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.

Re:The Apple Monoculture:

[Microlith]

The iPhone and its local SSH server predated the N900 by about 2 years.

Vulnerabilities

[thadman08]

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.

Re:Vulnerabilities

[Desler]

Such as?

Re:"Power users" don't jailbreak

[blind biker]

to learn that I really like my iPhone the way God intended it:

You are allowed to cal God by His real name - Steve Jobs.