Not much demand for jailbreaking, because iOS does pretty much what everyone wants it to.
Allegra admits that, technically, there's little difference between jailbreaking phones and hacking them for more malicious ends.
Although Apple had never sued anyone for jailbreaking, Sony had reacted fiercely to previous modifications of the PlayStation.
There will always be researchers who are more interested in jailbreaking than money.
Has a critical mass of users accepted jailbreaking as a matter of course?
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Has a critical mass of users accecpted jailbreaking as a matter of course?
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Additionally, jailbreaking can leave your phone vulnerable to hacking and malicious attacks, including an iPhone worm that specifically targets jailbroken phones.
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To make matters worse for Apple, the latest jailbreaking exploit will may require new hardware before it can be stopped.
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Until recently, personal jailbreaking was illegal as well -- meaning that all of the owners of those devices could be criminally liable.
The security industry has long warned that jailbreaking iPhones to install whatever unapproved applications the user wants leaves the device open to cybercriminals.
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However, when a device becomes unlocked, the process of jailbreaking it often decrypts previously protected data, and, consequently, can be targeted by malware.
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But meanwhile, another petition posted earlier this month that focuses on legalizing tablet jailbreaking has received a grand total of 56 signatures.
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He cited five reasons, including a lack of enthusiasm for jailbreaking, and the fact that governments are willing to pay top dollar for vulnerabilities.
He argues that those iPad jailbreakers also need legal protection from the DMCA, whose anti-tampering provision theoretically criminalizes both jailbreaking tablets and unlocking phones.
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The hacker, who goes by the name of pod2g and is known for his jailbreaking endeavors, posted about the bug late last week.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation won regulatory approval for three exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, including one that covers jailbreaking smartphones.
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This sounds strange, but given what I know of the jailbreaking community, there are researchers who do it purely for the fun of doing it.
Allegra argues, with some support, that his jailbreaking work is legal.
Despite that frenzy, Apple has hardly scrambled to stop the jailbreaking.
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But Comex may not be out of the jailbreaking scene altogether.
The hackers who created those jailbreaking tools, such as those who released the popular evasi0n jailbreaking software last month, might be subject to penalties as well.
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But jailbreaking, as this practice is called, violates Apple's obsessive control of its gadgets and demonstrates software holes that could be exploited later by less benign hackers.
The ban on jailbreaking tablets, like the one preventing phone unlocking, could be abolished with the same sort of three-year exemption that has made jailbreaking phones legal.
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Governments are willing to pay big bucks for vulnerabilities that they can back into malware, and one security expert believes that this may bring an end to jailbreaking.
After all, jailbreaking your phone was recently declared legal.
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But creators of jailbreaking tools, like the hackers who coded the recently released evasi0n tool, may be more vulnerable, says Parker Higgins, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Users have been jailbreaking the iPhone and the iPad since the tech toys first rolled out of Cupertino, and not just because they want to have alternate phone service.
Comex, for his part, spent a year as an intern at Apple before leaving last fall, and even now may be contractually bound not to work on jailbreaking projects.
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Earlier this month, renowned OS X and iOS hacker Charlie Miller explained why he believed that the latest Evasi0n jailbreak will be the last, and jailbreaking was at an end.
There may be limitations on what apps they can download and install, and being able to bypass OS imposed limitations though jailbreaking and rooting will almost undoubtedly be out of the question.
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