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19-Year-Old Jailbreaks iPhone 7 In 24 Hours (vice.com)
An anonymous reader writes: 19-year-old hacker qwertyoruiop, aka Luca Todesco, jailbroke the new iPhone 7 just 24 hours after he got it, in what's the first known iPhone 7 jailbreak. Todesco tweeted a screenshot of a terminal where he has "root," alongside the message: "This is a jailbroken iPhone 7." He even has video proof of the jailbreak. Motherboard reports: "He also said that he could definitely submit the vulnerabilities he found to Apple, since they fall under the newly launched bug bounty, but he hasn't decided whether to do that yet. The hacker told me that he needs to polish the exploits a bit more to make the jailbreak 'smoother,' and that he is also planning to make this jailbreak work through the Safari browser just like the famous 'jailbreakme.com,' which allowed anyone to jailbreak their iPhone 4 just by clicking on a link." Apple responded to the news by saying, "Apple strongly cautions against installing any software that hacks iOS."
An a headphone jack?
You can have both a micro SD card and a headphone jack. Just not on the iPhone.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Seems like it would be easy for Apple to fix this: Just raise the prices until 19 year olds can't afford the iPhone 8. Problem solved.
Apple responded to the news by saying, "Apple strongly cautions against installing any software that hacks iOS."
Luca responded that it took "courage" to talk about his exploit and possibly withholding it from Apple.
Wait for the 8 they'll introduce the 3.5mm back claiming they invented it.
They'd be smart to introduce him to some smoking hot 18 year old chick with an Apple tattoo. He'd be too busy rooting something else to bother with the phone.