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Re:North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden... by DaltonCoffee on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:13PM (#31185871)
Isn't most jailbreaking and protections tampering done by people w/o high school, let alone cs degrees.
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Re:North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden... by eugeniub on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:21PM (#31185963)
No, you need to know Dijkstra's algorithm in order to tinker with an OS. /s
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Re:North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden... by jeroenhd on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:33PM (#31186078)
Definitely, but those people generally have access to the Internet. Modern Android security isn't what people used to jailbreak 30 years ago before the internet.
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Re:North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden... by whimsicalism on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @06:03PM (#31186381)
The person inventing the jailbreak method is typically "classically trained" in CS, notable exceptions like Geohot.
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Re:North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden... by emteycz on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:30PM (#31186053)
Yeah, we learned it as kids at my primary school. Forums and people there will help a lot if you ask nicely. I guess North Koreans have to learn it from other people directly, though... that's probably much harder. Cubans have huge data libraries shared on USB flashdrives, I wonder if North Koreans have it too.
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Re:North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden... by aspenmayer on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @06:36PM (#31186687)
> Cubans have huge data libraries shared on USB flashdrives

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

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