Re:Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Sin...
by comex on Sunday January 26, 2014 @10:21PM
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> Apple spends a lot of time and money making it harder to jailbreak the phone, in ways that have nothing to do with defending against malware.
I doubt the point matters much, but for the specific case of preventing iOS jailbreaking (as opposed to, say, the iPodhash crap), Apple seems to be pretty lax when malware isn't being enabled. For example, after a jailbreak is released, Apple often doesn't patch the vulnerabilities until an update is rolled out for some separate reason - with the exception of the jailbreaks that remotely exploited the device via Safari (as opposed to requiring physical access to the device), which were patched quickly.
Of course, I would prefer if it were not necessary to use a vulnerability in the first place.
I doubt the point matters much, but for the specific case of preventing iOS jailbreaking (as opposed to, say, the iPodhash crap), Apple seems to be pretty lax when malware isn't being enabled. For example, after a jailbreak is released, Apple often doesn't patch the vulnerabilities until an update is rolled out for some separate reason - with the exception of the jailbreaks that remotely exploited the device via Safari (as opposed to requiring physical access to the device), which were patched quickly.
Of course, I would prefer if it were not necessary to use a vulnerability in the first place.