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Re:New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs by ihuman on Sunday December 22, 2013 @01:18PM (#6951060)
Except that there is never going to be an open source jailbreak. If it were open source, then Apple would be able to easily see what exploits are being used and patch them. In the past, has there ever been an open source jailbreak?
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Re:New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs by 0x0 on Sunday December 22, 2013 @01:25PM (#6951093)
Apple will find the exploits for binary-only jailbreaks, no problem. Also, there's been several source code releases for jailbreaks before, like https://github.com/comex/star_
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Re:New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs by zxcvgm on Sunday December 22, 2013 @01:40PM (#6951158)
The details of exploits used in jailbreaks have typically been released [0] or reverse-engineered [1], so open-source or not, Apple will typically fix them in the subsequent release.

[0] http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2013ams/materials/D2T1...

[1] http://blog.accuvant.com/bthomasaccuvant/evasi0n-jailbreaks-...

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