Apple Quietly Drops iOS Jailbreak Detection API 164
bednarz writes "Without explanation, Apple has disabled a jailbreak detection API in iOS, less than six months after introducing it. Device management vendors say the reasons for the decision are a mystery, but insist they can use alternatives to discover if an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad has been modified so it can load and alter applications outside of Apple's iTunes-based App Store."
Re:Because they realized it was fruitless (Score:5, Funny)
If you can jailbreak the phone, you can trick the detection API. Once the system is "untrustable" it is not trustable.
My God. Someone actually RTFA.
Re:Because they realized it was fruitless (Score:5, Funny)
Fruitless ....Apple ....
Ahahahahahahahah! Good one, man!
Apple sells the jailbreak (Score:2, Funny)
You'd think they'd find it better to provide the jailbreak themselves so they can have SOME control over it.
Apple sells the jailbreak; it just costs $600 for a Mac plus $99 per year.
Re:Reasons (Score:5, Funny)
I realize you are new here, but it is a long and proud slashdot tradion to not read the linked article. Many really hardcore slashdot users do not even read the summary.
Re:Reasons (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot has summaries?
Re:drop or hide? (Score:5, Funny)
are ya sure it hasn't just been retooled to become super_secret_function()
I don't think you've seen the iOS SDK.
I'd guess something more like [NSReallyInternalDeviceIdiomDetector superSecretFunction:host:port:withDelegate:inSection:byAppendingString:context]
Re:Apple sells the jailbreak (Score:4, Funny)
Thanks, Hobson.