Re:JailbreakMe highlights just how vulnerable iOS users are
by albedoa on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @11:46AM
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> it's really unsettling to think that a simple website could remotely exploit a security flaw and provide complete access to my iOS device.
The thing is, these exploits exist before the jailbreaks themselves. If jailbreaks were no longer released publicly, the exploits would still be there. Who knows what would have happened if they were discovered by someone else (and who knows that they actually weren't)?
When the PDF exploit was found for the last jailbreakme exploit, the first iOS users to have a patch available to them were those who jailbroke their devices. Apple followed shortly thereafter.
Re:JailbreakMe highlights just how vulnerable iOS users are
by saurik on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @01:15PM
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...and users with an iPhone 2G were never given official patches from Apple, and are still vulnerable unless jailbroken. :(
Re:JailbreakMe highlights just how vulnerable iOS users are
by pixdamix on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @05:01PM
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Hi saurik :)
Jailbrake is good, I jailbroken my 3G after one hour outside its box. (And I used your VNC implementation to allow a disabled friend in a wheelchair to use an iPhone)
That's said, exploiting a hole in the pdf renderer is scary. This shouldn't be possible.
But on the other hand, sites like jailbreakme.com really highlight just how terrible Apple's security is. Things like this really shouldn't happen and it would probably be better that jailbreaks didn't exist. With all the different types of transactions and personal information stored on iOS devices, it's really unsettling to think that a simple website could remotely exploit a security flaw and provide complete access to my iOS device.