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Georgia Tech Researchers Jailbreak iOS 7.1.2
mikejuk writes The constant war to jailbreak and patch iOS has taken another step in favor of the jailbreakers. Georgia Tech researchers have found a way to jailbreak the current version of iOS. What the Georgia Tech team has discovered is a way to break in by a multi-step attack. After analysing the patches put in place to stop previous attacks, the team worked out a sequence that would jailbreak any modern iPhone. The team stresses the importance of patching all of the threats, and not just closing one vulnerability and assuming that it renders others unusable as an attack method. It is claimed that the hack works with any iOS 7.1.2 using device including the iPhone 5s.
It is worth noting that the The Device Freedom Prize for an open source jailbreak of iOS7 is still unclaimed and stands at just over $30,000. The details are to be revealed at the forthcoming Black Hat USA (August 6 & 7 Las Vegas) in a session titled Exploiting Unpatched iOS Vulnerabilities for Fun and Profit:
It is worth noting that the The Device Freedom Prize for an open source jailbreak of iOS7 is still unclaimed and stands at just over $30,000. The details are to be revealed at the forthcoming Black Hat USA (August 6 & 7 Las Vegas) in a session titled Exploiting Unpatched iOS Vulnerabilities for Fun and Profit:
Jailbreaking was cool when there was no Personal Hotspot mode on the iPhone... and other things Apple's App Store didn't allow at first. Thing is, what's in the Apple-disapproved and really useful file for the unofficial app stores to offer?
When are people going to stop buying products that they feel the need to jailbreak instead of buying unlocked or open alternatives? Keep rewarding the bad behaviour that you don't like, and you'll just get more of the same, except locked down even better.
Considering iOS7 is about to be replaced any day now.
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iOS 8 Betas are in full swing. Say what you will about Apple but I'm looking forward to a free major release upgrade that's full of new features and improvements. I got a lot of really good life out of my four and there's no reason I wont' see the same out of my 5s.
I like android too but we all know getting major release updates always happens 6-12 months after the fact, if it every happens. Which it usually does not. I actually sold my ipad and purchased the 2013 nexus 7. (Notice how I picked up the ONLY device that will ever see lots of regular factory updates?) Just picked up the Nvidia sheild tablet too - That's a fun toy with lots of promise.
Is that odd to say people want the option of jailbreak, not necessary right now? They might just want to exercise the choice at their own pleasure.
Congrats on jailbreaking an os which is already jail broken?
at least Iphone is now unlocked
not like the past where it was ATT only and roaming was $20 a MEG!!!
A browser that supports userscript extensions (greasemonkey). Bookmarklet just aren't good enough.
Yay me!
It's Nexus or nothing. Fuck Samsung
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If you customized your phone and made it worse, clearly the issue is that you suck at customizing. This time, try rooting the phone, removing the bloat, voice search, and excessive app permissions, and then don't add any other crap back.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
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Yo. Just don't install the apps that need too many permissions. Then you don't gotta root your phone, and you won't fuck up your battery life.
Sorry that you explicitly said "give me control" and proceeded to trash it.
"Why?"
Because I'd rather have an iPhone than any other phone and an iPad than any other tablet. If they have to be jailed, then so be it. On the other hand, once I get my device, it's just that much better when it's jailbroken. I'm not rewarding bad behavior. Apple made their choice of how they wanted the platform to be, and most people are perfectly fine with that choice. My personal protest to the contrary wouldn't change one thing.
By "customizing" he means "loaded CM on it" (or someother AOSP based build) that doesn't know how to be efficient.
BS. You had to root it to get CM loaded. You could've stopped with rooting the stock firmware and used any of the HUNDREDS of apps and tweaks to disable the vendor bloat and security. (are we talking Samsung and KNOX perhaps. There are entire corners of the internet devoted to that shit.)
Same. Every Android phone I've tried sucked, especially the battery life. cyanogenmod is definitely no help. It makes my Samsung battery go flat in a day and a half in standby mode! Windows phone is a joke (I wouldn't want of one for free), so that means I'll have to buy an iPhone next if I want a usable battery life I guess!
They could be researching how to improve Internet security, fix the USB firmware security problem, build better encryption schemes, create artificial intelligence, etc. Why waste time on a fashion phone, when they could be doing real work to help the world?
When are people going to stop buying products that they feel the need to jailbreak instead of buying unlocked or open alternatives?
As soon as my employer decides to offer a choice other than "windows or IOS", I'll take it.
Until then, jailbreaking remains the only option.
Why do you need root access? What are you trying to install that isn't already there?
I have compiled a list of such apps. For example, MozStumbler could never be ported to iOS because Apple refuses to make available any public API for enumerating nearby SSIDs.
If you're going to hack up the operating system to pieces just to run an NES emulator, why not just run the emulator on an Android gaming tablet made by JXD in the first place?
I'm not ready to speak to other items on your list, but for the first, you could always switch to a different service provider that isn't "greedy as hell". It's not like the early days when AT&T had a monopoly on the iPhone.
If CyanogenMod screws your Android device's battery life, you could always root your stock ROM and install Xposed Framework, which runs on top of your existing ROM.
Yo. Just don't install the apps that need too many permissions.
That's like saying "Just don't install the apps". Most apps not on F-Droid need a buttload of permissions just to run. And if it's a game, it almost certainly isn't on F-Droid.
Jailbreaking does "improve Internet security" by letting a device's owner install a DNS blacklist.
Anyone notice that MyWi data rates are practically unusable now while Apple's regular mail and Safari apps have no trouble at all? Is it possible that Verizon can tell when you're trying to use your data plan through MyWi?
Jailbreak your e-ink Kindle to (1) change the ridiculous margin settings and (2) play interactive fiction (Zork, et al). The saddest part is that in trying to "protect" users that invariably all they do is encourage users to entirely bypass said protection or learn to live with whatever crippled, half-assed interface they develop. And I say this knowing full well that often enough what comes out of open source development is its own crippled, half-assed interface. But the very fact that you can change an open system means you have the opportunity to find an interface that works and for competition to naturally provide for the best interfaces to come to the surface.
Market place of ideas and all that. Nah, let's live in a walled garden. Like the Chinese enjoy.
Really, why bother?
You can buy an unlocked iPhone directly from Apple these days.
Why is this rated -1?
Because the open alternatives well, suck. I've tried Android, and while ICS and JB are nice, they're also way too busy and don't work the way I want them to. Yes, I'm a geek, I love all the billion options it gives me to control it, but damn, I just want to use my phone as a phone. I don't want or care about themes, dynamic backgrounds, wallpapers, etc.
Plus, I like the way iOS works. Android's got it's own UI, and I find I dislike it (it's gotten a lot better now, but the back button always throws me for a loop because I'm used to seeing back at the top left, while the back button is always at the bottom).
Then there's whole Google thing. Sorry, Google's business plan involves gathering as much user information as possible.
Finally - while iTunes sucks, there's a bunch of utility it provides, like backups. I can download IPA files on iTunes and install them on my iOS devices - even if the app gets banned or whatever, as long as I have a local copy, I can install it. Apple hasn't blocked any apps from running, nor have they force-removed apps. And iTunes backups DO work. Backing up on Android? Well, you have Ti Backup and other apps, but nothing by default. Hell, even iCloud backups work. Android backups for me just mean all my apps get reinstalled, but I lose all my data. Thanks, Google.
Then there's the whole penis^H^H^H^H^Hscreen size thing. I find this enlarging screen size trend disappointing - I want a decent screen, decent CPU, decent RAM, and that entails buying flagships which are growing faster than the American waistline. I mean sure, 441dpi is a bit too much for me (I don't use the phone to my nose), so the 325-ish DPI of the "retina" display is perfectly adequate. Plus, I want real RGB, not pentile crap, and proper color calibration (AMOLED is impressive, but the colors generally oversaturate and are inaccurate). Android is rapidly moving away from being useful to me as an alternative.
Sure if I wanted open I could use Linux, but Linux desktops are just plain old fugly to me. I develop on Linux, using Windows as a front end (X server for the odd X app, but otherwise a bunch of SSH windows and samba serving files for Gvim for Windows).
Again, it's all personal preferences, and I know lots of people don't work that way.
As for jailbreaking, well, the only must-have app I have on iOS is iP Firewall. It lets me control apps use of network - so I block ad servers and the like. (Yes, Android has the same functionality if you root).
Estimates have around 10% of iOS users jailbreak, and unfortunately, it seems the largest use of jailbreaks are... installing pirated apps.
The vast majority of iOS users don't feel the need to jailbreak. I suppose your question was directed at the .05 % of users.
Yes, they have a lot of explaining to do.
Isn't the Pangu jailbreak already capable to jb iOS 7.12?
Maybe it doesn't count, because they install some nastyware on your phone, but...
Please tell me how to uninstall all the HTC and AT&T baked in apps you cant "uninstall"
Because they dont exist.
All android phones are locked you have to root them to unlock them, and it's pretty much a similar amount of work. And now you have the Bullshit of S-ON and S-OFF on most android phones that requires you to use exploits to set Security off.
Even buying a 100% unlocked version of the phone.... S-ON is set and you STILL have to exploit it to unlock it.
So please tell me what phone can I buy that I already have root, and there is no security at all on the phone to stop me from installing whatever I want or whatever OS I want. Because they just do not exist outside of developer edition short run.
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T-Mobile plans already include tethering according to T-Mobile's page.
Root it first then use something like titanium backup.
All the disadvantages of renting and all the disadvantges of owning are yours when you purchase a walled-garden iOS device!
Remember in 1984 when Apple had that superbowl-commercial against 'big brother'?
Yeah well that was a promotion for THEIR freedom, not yours or mine.
They found a way to jailbreak 7.1.2... which already has a public jailbreak. Bravo.
Because Apple.
S-ON/OFF is just an HTC thing.
You do not have to exploit any Android phone to get root, because you do not have to exploit any Android phone to install another ROM on it. Just install a ROM that has root access and you will have root access - no exploits.
You just have to unlock the bootloader with adb, which is not an exploit, but rather a feature. Then, load the new ROM with adb, which again is not an exploit.
You can also load a new Radio without an exploit, as I did with my Nexus 4 phone. I loaded a hybrid modem that supports both HSPA+ and Band 4 LTE and now I have an LTE Nexus 4, again, with no exploits.
The fact that you do not know how to use an Android phone does not mean it is "locked down" or "requires exploits" in order to use as root.
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Why don't you build a small device based on an RPI and use the phone just as a Dumb Internet Access Device ?
Some day, we might even be able to control our devices ourselves, ya know.
Consumerists do not need to reply. Thank you.
The bloat is Google Play Services and removing the phone breaking parts is a total pita (Whilst keeping the desirable parts of it working like e.g the market / gmail).
Eventually I think I will end up with a GED running AOSP Android and the Amazon Appstore just so it doesn't get worse and worse as time goes on. (At the moment I only have a few apps left on Google I have re bought most of them).
As far as I am concerned its my device not Googles. (They seem to think and act otherwise).
Because they dont exist.
All android phones are locked you have to root them to unlock them, and it's pretty much a similar amount of work. And now you have the Bullshit of S-ON and S-OFF on most android phones that requires you to use exploits to set Security off.
Even buying a 100% unlocked version of the phone.... S-ON is set and you STILL have to exploit it to unlock it.
So please tell me what phone can I buy that I already have root, and there is no security at all on the phone to stop me from installing whatever I want or whatever OS I want. Because they just do not exist outside of developer edition short run.
Jolla.
Moderators... why does this guy currently have a 2 and I have a 0 for Troll in this thread?
Then why does a Friends LG phone have the SAME THING just under a different brand name?
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The same day the Earth stops spinning. You can't use iOS apps outside of iOS. You can't use Android apps outside of Android. You can't use Windows programs outside of Windows. Well, not so well for any of the above to pretend that there's a viable alternative. Honestly, since people want (1) good [enough] hardware and (2) a pre-setup experience of software, it follows that invariably there's software platforms that are stuck on certain hardware that creates enough barrier to switch to some alternative. No one is immune to this because even if on principle you reject it all you're still effected by having many fewer choices.
Which is more the nature of the oligarchy byproduct of economy of scale, word of mouth advertising leading to sufficient trust, and the general state that virtual no company is interested inherently in anything but locking down customers to their platform because of the above barrier to switch. Honestly, short of some legislation that makes it patently legal to jailbreak--to avoid the rent seeking that has happened--, there's little that can really be done at a pragmatic level.
But, yea, keep on chanting the idea of voting with your dollar as if that alone is sufficient to change the world. At best, you'll have a small part in it just like other forms of voting...unless you're a billionaire. But, then, that's just another oligarchy with control and most often the very people who own said companies.
I did vote with my dollar. I just didn't buy a cellphone.
GP here. Me neither. But I did end up buying a cheap Chinese Android Tablet with a ready, relatively-easily flashed rooted firmware. Yet, never the less, there was that extra step. And it's a rather non-trivial task to actually modify said firmware and a time consuming task to reinstall all the apps/data (not horrible, really, but it's not as simple as "adb backup" and "adb restore" as not all data gets backed up) while you try to pare down the firmware to something you like. There's also the constant worry that you'll somehow permanently brick the device.
And really, it's not just limited to your tablet or your game console which you may root/jailbreak/whatever. I try to jailbreak most devices I own precisely because I see so much more potential in most devices than what you're normally presented with. I was able to track down my Chinese MP3 player's firmware and alter the startup animation (it was a mono-2D bitmap rotated 90 degrees) to something personal. And from the code, I was able to deduce it actually supported OGG files. :)
My point is, depending on how you define a jailbreak or a hack or whatever, there's just so little in the market for truly open options so you basically have to hack or jailbreak because not all the source is given or even if the source is the development environment is such a mess you're likely to never get the code to compile--and that's true often enough on PC open source stuff as well. Sure, the intentional software jails (aka "Walled Gardens") are especially bad, but they're just a further extension of what is probably already some sort of illegal to distribute online anyways (binary patches/patchers may be derivative works, so it's all likely illegal even without the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions).
Having said all that, I'd throw in my two cents on supporting something like the GCW0. Although even there it's clear that as much as the development situation isn't per se closed, there's enough risk of bricking that most people aren't doing much on the firmware (me included)--which is a shame since it's that area (support for tv out and usb otg) that's lacking most. The rest of it's just a decently good Linux system which is mostly easy to port 2D games to (so long as what you're doing is already 320x240 or smaller and is joystick controlled). It's hard to say where the future is with it, though. *shrug*