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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:
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.
Then comes apps that refuses to run on a jailbreaked phone, and then comes VM's/chroot's that will run those apps, ad nauseam...
Considering iOS7 is about to be replaced any day now.
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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?
for vast majority of people jailbreak, in fact, constitutes loss of control.
For me, sending messages and making calls with a google voice number. It's not good at all with the official app, and it works great if you're jailbroken and you buy the required jailbreak apps to do it.
at least Iphone is now unlocked
not like the past where it was ATT only and roaming was $20 a MEG!!!
You still can't get a NES emulator for iOS. Not sure if jailbreaking helps with this one though. The point is, there's a lot of apps that Apple won't allow to be published in the app store for one reason or another.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
A browser that supports userscript extensions (greasemonkey). Bookmarklet just aren't good enough.
Yay me!
Because playing NES games on a touch screen would be so awesome ... NOT.
The original point stands, nothing you'd actually want remains.
I understand the 'because its my phone and I should have the fucking ability to do with it what I want' aspect, and its a valid one, but once you get past that theres no real reason to jailbreak.
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Why would an app refuse to run on a jailboken phone - unless it was made by Apple or your carrier specifically to try to incentivize you to stay on their leash.
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I know the DirecTV app won't run. I've ran across a game as well.
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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.
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I have an ipad. Full file system access is my number one reason for jail breaking. I can access any file on the device, share folders on a samba server, access any file on the sdcard reader.
Now I can actually upload nef files from.my Nikon camera.
I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
And there's other apps like Flex that gets around these restrictions with ease.
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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.
Facepalm. Just use a PC if you want to program.
- Apps to enable the f'ing hotspot that the greedy as hell service provider won't allow you to turn on. (without paying them some idiotic fee to allow me to use my already capped data however I d*** well please.)
- Full filesystem access
- Add bluetooth capabilities Apple doesn't think anyone needs
- WiFi scanning apps
(I could go on...)
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.)
Many of them evaluate the file system and determine the device is jailbroken. tsProtector fixes this by denying apps (you choose) file access. Makes apps that get cranky over jail breaking stfu and get back to work.
Chewbacon
The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
Why do you need root access? What are you trying to install that isn't already there?
I'll bite. ... Also the ability to edit and customize (hidden) settings, hosts file, themes, go fuck yourself, it's my computer and I do what I want with it.
First and foremost: firewall and SSHd, then: nginx, python, perl, java, haskell, adblocker,
(I could go on...)
Please do so... we need this list!
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.
It's not your computer, it's your cell phone.
An iPad comes with has the same restrictions as an iPhone. Or is the iPad not "your computer" either?
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?
Speak for yourself, please!
It might be a phone for you, for me, it's my portable, pocket-computer.
Please do elaborate on what cap you're talking about, but if I want to saturate LTE (which I'm not using, btw), I'll saturate LTE from my own pocket (no pun intended); with or without a jailbreak.
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.
There hasn't been a legal NES game emulator yet.. Patents have lapsed, but nobody's done it without stealing code.
Obviously, you're only supposed to consume fakebook and buy apps and music through it. Didn't you know? ;)
Don't ever try to use it as a portable ARM development board with multi-touch.
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?
How is it piracy to run any of these games?
ZX- and Commodore where *very* relevant, introduced generations to code, where architectures that you could fully grasp, and totally control. They had graphics far earlier than PCs. The concepts still live with many of us, professionals in they industry, and the processors are still used nowadays in the micro controlling industry. And many of us where cutting out teeth in unix and graphical interfaces before that piece of shit you talk from microsoft came along.
My first was a ZX-Spectrum 48K. Amazing machine, I knew it from the inside out, and programmed it into machine code almost like talking my mother tongue. I went out later on, and my final project was the first ZX Spectrum emulator for Windows.
i'm not paying extra to use the data I paid for how I want. AT&T wants me to. Jailbreak.
also I have no real choice in my selection of provider.
pr0n. don't forget pr0n. the apple app store doesn't allow pr0n and similar apps. yes please!
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.
If you saturate your cable modem, only your family notices. If you saturate LTE by disabling a cap, then your whole community notices!
Likewise if you mow the lawn at 3 AM or drive on the sidewalk. Solution: don't
Solution recognizing that some people are assholes: put the cap in the modem part, allow root for the main CPUs OS. If someone abuses the network anyway, lock them out and if necessary, fine them.
You think a cell phone isn't a computer? Well, you're wrong. The latest flagship phones from any of the major vendors have as much power as a supercomputer did 20 years ago. If an early 90s Cray was a computer so is your iPhone.
I jailbreak for control, as others mentioned: Firewalls, ad blockers, tweaks, full-fledged BASH prompt, etc.
I also do it to find out what Apple is going to add to iOS in ~2 years. With every new major version most of the big features have available in Cydia for at least a year. Apple has admitted to getting feature ideas from the JB community and even hired a coupe of Jailbreak developers.
Don't want to jailbreak? Good. Don't bit don't get on my way.
Are you being an uneducated tool and trying to say that Android is perfect.... because anyone that has any clue knows better.
There is a reason I am running Cyanogenmod 11 DAILIES on my HTC ONE M8 and not the "perfect" android that HTC bastardized.
Android is broken as hell, not by Google's design, but by their fault for letting carriers and handset makers BREAK android.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
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.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
T-Mobile plans already include tethering according to T-Mobile's page.
LJ65 is expected to return once Mr. Pajitnov stops claiming that free software should never have existed because it destroys the market.
It's not your computer, it's your cell phone.
You are a moron
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Because Apple.
presence of ads does no more to user's control of the device than tv ads do with regard to control of the television set.
what you're talking about is circumventing app owners' revenue source.
whether you choose to think of that as shoplifting or "fighting the power" is your personal choice but at least don't confuse it with control.
don't like ads? vote with your feet, buy ad-free apps. that _is_ control, btw.
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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Do you also "root" your car? I mean it has lots of computer controllers that you should have access to since you won the thing, right?
Article X: The powers not delegated... by the Constitution...are reserved...to the people
You obviously have no idea how mobile internet connection works, don't you?
Any source on that? I'm using their JB and haven't found any reason why not to so far, but I'm always glad to read someone's analysis/complaints.
:x
I have plenty of idea how a mobile connection works... I explained GSM to people who were arguing over TDMA and CDMA in at Syracuse University....
There's a big difference between anything wireless and wired connections. Wired will always be faster to transmit data, wireless will always be faster to deploy.
Think of how many TV channels you get over broadcast, compared to how many you can get over cable. Think of why DirecTV has to do more compression work (and degrade when weather is in the way) compared to cable TV. Wire allows an entire set of frequencies to be used. wireless is limited because it can't interfere with other things.
Moderators... why does this guy currently have a 2 and I have a 0 for Troll in this thread?
That's exactly how the LTE system works these day... those who use too much are billed or throttled depending on what provider and rate card they subscribe to.
So what's the problem then?
Who's doing porn as an app in the jailbreak store? It's a website with video these days.
Are you on somebody else's bill? There's not very much area that doesn't have all four license holders to operate....
Who's doing porn as an app in the jailbreak store? It's a website with video these days.
idk I bet there could be some cool pr0n games or maybe an adult chat app. The sky's the limit!
But how's that on-topic? What "rooting a phone" has in common with "disabling LTE cap"? (whatever you mean by that)
There is no "secret cap switch" that allows one to get ultra-speed while downgrading the connection to everyone else in neighborhood. The connection is managed by the modem with its own, closed and cryptographically signed firmware, which uses (or at least tries to use) 3GPP standards. It's completely unrelated to any "jailbreaking" or "rooting" that was discussed here.
Actually, when mangling with modem, "saturating LTE" is something you'd worry about as a last thing. There are much better things to do when you for instance force downgrade to 2G on your neighbors - then you can apply all sorts of man-in-the-middle, eavesdropping, spoofing, DoS attacks and much more. Cellular networks are built with an assumption that only certified hardware can transmit on them - and a lot of modems and BTSes blindly trust that this is really the case (after all, when you start to transmit with modified modem, like TI Calypso with OsmocomBB, you're breaking the laws, cause modifying its firmware made its certification void).
However, as I said, that has nothing to do with the concept of "jailbreaking" or "rooting". Maybe you know somehow the physical layer of GSM, but for sure don't really know how it's all implemented in modern smartphones.
Then why does a Friends LG phone have the SAME THING just under a different brand name?
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There doesn't need to be a communications tool just for porn-only, any general use tool can support porn.
Porn games? How does that work?