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Re:Impossible to fix vulnerability (giving root) to all iPho... by clay_the_ripper on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:48PM (#21097282)
I haven’t jail broken a phone since the 3G, I just don’t see a compelling reason to anymore. The reason I did it then was to get around the tethering restrictions that att had at the time, but now I can’t really think of any features that I would want my phone to have that it doesn’t already.
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Re:Impossible to fix vulnerability (giving root) to all iPho... by karatchov on Saturday September 28, 2019 @03:25AM (#21098972)
The main reason I want to jailbreak my ipad

-sideload apps that cant get to the app store, not just for piracy,example :file manager, adblocker, firewall ...

Sure its doable without a jailbreak, but its restricted and require paying apple a yearly $100 developer fee

And some few extra cydia tweaks can be really usefull

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Re:Impossible to fix vulnerability (giving root) to all iPho... by Hamuko on Saturday September 28, 2019 @03:57AM (#21099072)
I thought you could sideload self-built apps onto an iPhone these days. I mean, it has some restrictions, but at least it doesn't require forking over $99.
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Re:Impossible to fix vulnerability (giving root) to all iPho... by Crosseye_Jack on Saturday September 28, 2019 @04:12AM (#21099116)
Max of 3 apps at a time, side loaded apps expire after 7 days, sideloaded apps also have limitations on what they can / can’t do.
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Re:Impossible to fix vulnerability (giving root) to all iPho... by smittywerben on Saturday September 28, 2019 @03:13AM (#21098938)
It's simple but I'd like ssh to phone home. I don't see a reason to trust an app. Otherwise Apple put in most everything else I used (like SBSettings etc).
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Re:Impossible to fix vulnerability (giving root) to all iPho... by writepub on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:10AM (#21099504)
I'm assuming most jailbreakers probably don't want to enable piracy, but just want to use apps that Apple won't compete with fairly - like Steam game streaming, or a browser built with an alternate engine like chromium.
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Re:Impossible to fix vulnerability (giving root) to all iPho... by tkifnn on Saturday September 28, 2019 @03:35AM (#21099005)
Adblock using the host file
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