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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.

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  1. It's always made sense by cyber-vandal · · Score: 5, Informative

    They want to prevent anyone else from starting an app store in competition with theirs.