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19-Year-Old Jailbreaks iPhone 7 In 24 Hours (vice.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the that-was-quick dept.

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."

9 of 97 comments (clear)

  1. Let's get physical by madwheel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If only we could physically hack in a damn Micro SD slot.

    1. Re:Let's get physical by Pascoea · · Score: 5, Funny

      An a headphone jack?

    2. Re:Let's get physical by fluffernutter · · Score: 4, Interesting

      ..for the time being.

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  2. Yawn by sometext · · Score: 5, Informative

    This guy does this every time a new version of iOS comes out and he never releases it publicly. For all we know it's been the same exploit all along.

    1. Re:Yawn by somenickname · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

    2. Re:Yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

  3. The best part was... by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Funny

    ....he was able to use the hack to re-enable the headphone jack.

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  4. Re:Apple needs side loading / 3rd party app stores by Scorpinox · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can easily side load a lot of stuff yourself using the free personal developer accounts. The apps expire after 30 days though so you have to keep re-adding it every month. I've got a couple apps on my phone that apple would never approve on the store, no jailbreaking.

  5. kthxapple by SeaFox · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.