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Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense

Posted by timothy on from the sacrifice-the-phone-to-save-your-world dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple has always been extremely anti jailbreaking, but it might now have a good reason to plug up the exploits. As Hardware 2.0 argues, Apple's new iOS 7 Activation Lock anti-theft mechanism which renders stolen handsets useless (even after wiping) unless the owner's Apple ID is entered relies on having a secure, locked-down OS. Are the days of jailbreaking iOS coming to a close?" I can see a whole new variety of phone-based ransom-ware based on this capability, too.

2 of 321 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Phone-based ransom-ware? by Moryath · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yes, phone-based ransomware. It's called iOS.

    The real war isn't because of this, it's because Apple wants to have total control (more to the point, their fingers in the wallet) over anyone developing for the iOS devices. They want their 30% cut, period.

  2. Re:Phone-based ransom-ware? by gl4ss · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_unblocking_code

    god damn people it's not like these ideas are new in any fucking way godffudsoaiocjiojfasdjlja.fajdlösk. ds

    the fucking code could be easily implemented separate from the ability to run any program you want on the phone once it's open. and that's the way it should be so that jailbreaking wouldn't affect it.. it's just about the money from app sales. that's what this shit was always about.

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