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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."
If only we could physically hack in a damn Micro SD slot.
Success through obscurity!
I've also hacked every new Apple product's firmware within 24 hours, but am not going to release any methods. I am also definitely an 18 year old leet haxor called cali^babe^17^ working alone.
Rules of any hacking community:
1. Without proof, the hack doesn't exist.
2. Without proof, the author isn't the publisher.
1 is easy to fix. 2 is for those who believe that big exploits are all released by mysterious little kids.