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Re:Million Dollar iOS9 Bug Bounty by captainmuon on Monday September 21, 2015 @11:07AM (#10252780)
You used to be able to jailbreak one of the first iPhones and install Cydia just by visiting some page in Safari and clicking on a button, IIRC. I never did this myself, so my memories might be inaccurate though.
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Re:Million Dollar iOS9 Bug Bounty by haywardsmyfault on Monday September 21, 2015 @12:01PM (#10253138)
Right! One of the famous initial iPhone OS exploits involved a vulnerability in LibTiff. Decoding a crafted .tiff in Safari would grant the site's javascript root access.

Read more: https://books.google.com/books?id=1kDcjKcz9GwC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA...

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Re:Million Dollar iOS9 Bug Bounty by josu on Monday September 21, 2015 @01:18PM (#10253704)
It was actually a clever "Slide to Jailbreak" rather than a click.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe

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Re:Million Dollar iOS9 Bug Bounty by SlashmanX on Monday September 21, 2015 @11:10AM (#10252802)
You're correct. jailbreak.me I think it was called
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Re:Million Dollar iOS9 Bug Bounty by mbrd on Monday September 21, 2015 @11:45AM (#10253036)
It was always amusing to visit the Apple store and see a jailbroken iPhone on display when this vulnerability worked.
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Re:Million Dollar iOS9 Bug Bounty by outadoc on Monday September 21, 2015 @11:49AM (#10253061)
And it was resurrected later on - by comex, I think.
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Re:Million Dollar iOS9 Bug Bounty by epmatsw on Monday September 21, 2015 @12:03PM (#10253153)
Yep, it was a pdf parsing exploit I believe.
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