“Apple says it is working on fixing a security hole in the software of its iPhones, iPads and the iPod Touch,” The Associated Press reports.
“Apple Inc. spokeswoman Bethan Lloyd said Thursday the company is ‘aware of this reported issue and developing a fix that will be available to customers in an upcoming software update,'” AP reports. “She declined to specify when the update would be available.”
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bye bye jailbreakme.com again
Only for those that do update. If it’s just the security fix, and you want to jailbreak… Why bother? Jailbreak and get the fix on cydia.
Were you able to find a solution to the problem of email autofill of obsolete addresses without jailbreaking and thus SSH and without wiping the iPhone?
No, which sucks.
You can choose NOT to update….
You can chose to be infected and have your info stolen.
Problem with Chlamydia is you don’t know what other diseases you will pick up after satisfying your urge to download something for free.
Jailbreakers are like car enthusiasts. It’s good that they’re around, but they’re irritating when they delude themselves into thinking they speak for the average user. Clearly, they’re a small minority.
Most of us prefer to simply use our cars for what they were built to do, and feel no need to muck about with the interior. It’s always irritating to see tech blogs perpetuate the myth that the average car user wants to do otherwise.
Exactly!
At the same time you void your warranty AND count yourself out of getting regular updates to iOS.
I for one am looking forward to iOS 5 and NOTHING would make me want to jailbreak what is undoubtedly a beautiful integration of hardware and software.
So you have never upgraded a car stereo? Never bought better tires? Tinted the windows?
Or maybe you upgraded when you purchased the car. Added a navigation system.
If Apple would let me add options at the time of purchase that would be great. They don’t.
Over 1 million i devices jailbroken on day 1. Day one!!!
It’s my ride I’ll do what I want with it. Other people agree. At least a million others.
@ iApple:
1 million devices jailbroken out of 120+ million devices. Less than 1%? Sounds about right.
It’s your device, do what you want with it. If you prefer to trade reliability, compatibility, and stability for the joy of making your phone “unique”, that’s fine. Just don’t act like the rest of us want the same thing. You are a tiny minority of iOS device users. The rest of us expect our device to work consistently. If we wanted a less-stable, less secure device, we’d by an Android phone.
The few people I’ve met who have jailbroken their phone often did so to save a few bucks by using their iPhone as a MiFi (without paying for it), or thought it was “cool.” All of them mentioned that they had to reboot their phones at least once a day due to hangs, had really short battery life, or other strange behavior.
I’ll pass.
Wow!
Only 1% is jailbroken and you’ve met a few of us already? Out of 120 million devices? What are the odds?
Oh that’s right, it was 1 million idevices the first day.
How many after a week?
A month?
But it’s cool you listen to the people you’ve met. Infact I have some Kool-aid I’d love for you to try.
I know this may come as a shock to you, but the vast majority of people don’t, in fact, spend all their time online posting “clever” comments on websites. Most of us simply go about our normal everyday lives, using the technological tools we’ve bought to do real-world things.
This is the big reason why jailbreakers have such an over-inflated opinion of themselves – the online “echo chamber” makes it appear there are more of them than there really are. And since technology enthusiast sites are naturally run by technology “tinkerers”, they, too, perpetuate the inaccurate perception of jailbreaking as something “everybody” does.
Again, if you want to jailbreak your iDevices, knock yourself out. But please, stop being so obnoxious about it to the rest of us.
For someone who ‘doesn’t spend all day online posting “clever” comments’
you have been on this post since 1:00 and posted 4xs. Busy day or slow day?
Practice what you preach
actually if you do some research, at LAST count it was 10%-15% of TOTAL iOS devices were jailbroken.
Saurick used to publish the numbers.
i have jail broken every apple device I have owned. None of them have any of the problems you have described. Most of the people know have also jail broken at least one of their devices. No problems. Don’t talk about a topic you have no idea about
While trumpeting 15 billion App Store downloads, Apple mentioned their “over 200 million iOS users”. So if there are 1 million jailbroken devices out of 200+ million, that’s less than half a percent. As I said, a small minority.
I wouldn’t be so annoyed with jailbreakers if there weren’t so many like “iApple” here, who apparently need to feel like they’re part of some huge jailbreaking movement.
If you want to screw up your iDevices, go right ahead, but please, stop being so obnoxious about it to the rest of us.
Thats 1 million on day 1. It’s not a movement. It’s an iPhone. I’ll do what I please with it. And last time I checked this was a post about jailbreaking. If you’re not interested in it why post? Tempted by the fruit? Or are you the fun police? Gotta stop those bad jailbreakers!
Book ’em Spade!
lol – Hawaii 5.0? 😉
Last time I checked, this was actually a post about Apple fixing a security hole. Sure, I brought up the jailbreaking question, but that’s because I finally figured out why jailbreaking annoys me so much – it’s the jailbreakers themselves, and what must be an inferiority complex driving their need to be seen as more numerous and influential than they are.
I don’t see anything at all tempting about making my iDevice less reliable. It’s a tool I bought to get things done, as well as play some games when I have some downtime. I didn’t buy it to tinker with it and break it. If that’s why you bought it, then fine, but not everyone wants to do what you want to do with it.
(And it probably doesn’t help that most jailbreakers are rather young – I probably would have messed around with jailbreaking when I was younger and didn’t have any real responsibilities. So it makes sense that young jailbreakers would have a tougher time understanding that not everybody thinks the way they do.)
+10
I have done most of the things you mention. And I might add that I have done a lot of those things using Apples App store with more than 400000 apps.
I have just NEVER thought about using ripped off stuff or stolen stuff. Chlamydia reeks of low quality ripped off stuff. No thanks! Also, no thanks to voiding my warranty etc etc.
Why not just buy an android and be done with it.
If you really think thats all what cydia has, you have obviously never jailbroken. Not all jailbreakers hate apple. After all, we liked them enough to buy their products. We dont run around acting like were in some freedom fighter movement. By the way, cydia dosent only harbor stolen apps. The creator of cydia and many devs are working on jailbreaks that stop piracy
Let me point out that the security issue is due to the insecure nature of the PDF format. What Apple will be doing is stopping the default reading and execution of code embedded in PDF files.
IOW: Yet again, thank ADOBE.
Dang, even without Flash, Adobe is still managing to give iOS a black eye when it comes to security.
Antivirus software vendors must wake up every morning thankful that Adobe’s products are both so widely installed and horrendously insecure…
Yeah.. See this is what people don’t understand.
Comex didn’t exactly go after apple code.. He went after the PDF format on iOS.
But the FUDer’s go after apple for it.
That is because it is Apple’s mistake!
If tomorrow it was discovered that Apple was handling HTTP requests in Safari in a manner that allowed browser hijacking would you claim that the W3C was at fault and not apple?
That logic makes no sense.
Apple implemented the support for PDF documents in their own OS from my understanding. They are responsible for any holes.
No Dude. Apple are responsible for not following clearly published safe practices, specifically the disabling of the security hole crapcode ADOBE wrote into the PDF format. That’s a secondary concern, after the fact, NOT the primary concern.
ADOBE are 100% responsible for the security hole. Please don’t attempt to make others as ignorant as yourself on this subject.
The exploit is not the PDF file, it is it’s contents. A PDF is all code. Even if you open a file that just says hi your computer, or in this case phone executes the code to display “hi”. In this case the contents are the deja vu exploit which was used in jailbreak me 2.0, and a stack overflow in the PDF parser. It’s not adobe or apples fault. It’s just the way computers work
NO. Incorrect. Blame Adobe.
Computers are just dumb machines. It is HUMANS who write the security hole code, NOT the machines we create. ADOBE wrote the code into the PDF format that allows the machine to execute human added malware code. Remove ADOBE’S bad code and the problem is GONE.
Since that isn’t going to happen, as ADOBE is too lazy, it is left to APPLE to disable the malware code reading ability that ADOBE created.
Please read my two related replies above for further details, if you really care.
This is stupid. PDF IS code. Without code there is no PDF. But it’s interpreted code. The bug is in Apple’s interpreter. They will fix it and it will be fine. Apple’s WAY better at this kind of thing than, say, Microsoft. But it’s still an exploitable Apple bug. They happen all the time, and Apple regularly fixes them.
Goofball misunderstandings of how code works is apparently the standard. And I can’t blame people for not having had the training. But please DO NOT spread around your ignorance when clearly you don’t understand the facts of the matter. Surely you can tell that you don’t actually know what you’re talking about.
See my replies above for ACTUAL facts of the matter.