Newly-Released Jailbreak Tool Can Unlock Every iPhone and iPad (techcrunch.com) 40
An anonymous reader quotes TechCrunch:
A renowned iPhone hacking team has released a new "jailbreak" tool that unlocks every iPhone, even the most recent models running the latest iOS 13.5. [9to5Mac points out it also works on iPads.]
For as long as Apple has kept up its "walled garden" approach to iPhones by only allowing apps and customizations that it approves, hackers have tried to break free from what they call the "jail," hence the name "jailbreak...." The jailbreak, released by the unc0ver team, supports all iPhones that run iOS 11 and above, including up to iOS 13.5, which Apple released this week. Details of the vulnerability that the hackers used to build the jailbreak aren't known, but it's not expected to last forever...
Security experts typically advise iPhone users against jailbreaking, because breaking out of the "walled garden" vastly increases the surface area for new vulnerabilities to exist and to be found.
For as long as Apple has kept up its "walled garden" approach to iPhones by only allowing apps and customizations that it approves, hackers have tried to break free from what they call the "jail," hence the name "jailbreak...." The jailbreak, released by the unc0ver team, supports all iPhones that run iOS 11 and above, including up to iOS 13.5, which Apple released this week. Details of the vulnerability that the hackers used to build the jailbreak aren't known, but it's not expected to last forever...
Security experts typically advise iPhone users against jailbreaking, because breaking out of the "walled garden" vastly increases the surface area for new vulnerabilities to exist and to be found.
Recursion? (Score:2)
"Details of the vulnerability that the hackers used to build the jailbreak aren't known, but it's not expected to last forever..." ...so someone's going to jailbreak the jailbreak? :-D
Re:Recursion? (Score:5, Informative)
No. The vulnerability in question is a kernel exploit. Therefore, Apple will patch it in the next iOS and iPadOS releases.
Last year another type of vulnerability was found called checkm8. This one is a BootROM vulnerability (CVE-2019-8900), which means it cannot be patched by a software update since it's in the boot ROM of affected devices, which include all iPhones and IPads (and even AppleTVs) up to and including iPhone X. Apple corrected the bug in the boot ROM of the iPhone 11.
So if you own an iPhone X or older, it is basically jailbreakable for life, and there's nothing Apple can do about it.
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Re: Recursion? (Score:5, Funny)
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Or at least
IMHO
(Sorry no mod points)
Re: Recursion? (Score:2)
Re: Recursion? (Score:2)
No, the issue is that jailbreaks are approved for release by Tim Cock himself whenever sales through isheeple go down. Or whenever Crapple runs out of ideas and Is looking for jailbreak tweaks to copy into the next ishit. Anyone with an IQ have long figured that. Sheeple are retards.
Wow!
I am completely convinced by your most erudite and well-referenced post.
I will immediately destroy all my iOS equipment and replace it all with much better supported and secure Android versions.
Oh... wait...
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Are you unaware of how ROM is updated, changed, worked-around?
Are you unaware of Intel's fixes for security and other problems in many of their CPUs and of their collaboration with M$ and other OS publishers?
Are you a younger person? Ya Know, a person who has no knowledge of the 1990's?
And the 1980's, etc.?
Re:Recursion? (Score:5, Informative)
Are you unaware of how ROM is updated, changed, worked-around?
You mean the permanently-programmed boot ROM in the phone's processor?
Are you unaware of Intel's fixes for security and other problems in many of their CPUs and of their collaboration with M$ and other OS publishers?
You mean those CPUs with rewriteable microcode, auxiliary processors, and flashable ROMs, unlike the ROM in Apple's A5 to A11 series CPUs that this exploit affects?
This ROM is the very first thing to run on those CPUs. It's (unfortunately for Apple) actual, masked Read Only Memory, and it is not rewriteable. Break this ROM and it's a CPU replacement to fix.
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Does that mean that an iPhone X is insecure with regards to access to its encrypted internal storage? Or is that still safe due to Safe Enclave and other security measures?
There's hominids out there, after all (Score:2)
because breaking out of the "walled garden" vastly increases the surface area for new vulnerabilities to exist and to be found.
No argument there.
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Works if you can maintain that situation... long term.
Hope Serum (Score:1)
Fuck Apple (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Fuck Apple (Score:4, Insightful)
is samsung + google really any better?
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Good luck on getting OS updates.
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Worst haiku ever.
Old (Score:2)
So, is it worth the effort to jailbreak? (Score:2)
Just curious-- is anyone out there using a jailbroken iPhone/iPad? What do you use it for?
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Things like location spoofing, such as people playing Pokemon.
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Which is completely stupid, because there are ways to detect jailbroken phones. They're rare enough nowadays that you're not likely to inconvenience many people out in the field.
So using it to spoof your location is silly since Pokemon Go can easily detect you're using a jailbroken phone and flag it.
And yes, those techniques work even for App Store apps. I believe the usual trick is to include an executable but exclude it from being signed - a ja
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I am. I don't actually use it, but someone gave me an iPhone so of course I had to break it immediately. Now that it's jailbroken, I'm bored with it. None of its "functionality" has any use for me. It's basically just a camera that can email the photos home.
Re: So, is it worth the effort to jailbreak? (Score:3)
I installed a reverse firewall so I could block outgoing requests for things I didnâ(TM)t approve or want.
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There's only one app I wish I could use, which was FirewallIP - it's an outgoing firewall that filters out the phone home stuff. It's fairly good and you can block all the in app ad trackers and such.
Sadly, the jailbreak community pretty much died once it was being used to run pirated apps. That was until recently pretty much the reason why people jailbroke. Now you don't really need to jailbreak to run unsigned apps a
ftfy (Score:4, Informative)
Security experts typically advise iPhone users against jailbreaking, because they're scared little bitches riding Apple's diseased dick.
Anyone Tell The FBI? (Score:3, Interesting)
So maybe they'll quit whining about Apple's lack of cooperation in cracking or accessing iPhones?
https://www.businessinsider.co... [businessinsider.com]
Like that Saudi POS Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani [ptui, may he rot in hell] who shot all those people down at Pensacola NAS? It took the FBI months to get into his phone, to confirm the link between him and al Queda.
I'm not interested in any whines about the terrible awful evil "loss of personal privacy" either. I've never had any concerns with privacy: having a TS clearance most of my working career, I always assumed everything I said, did, corresponded, places I went to, bad influence buddies, etc. were always on record. Never seemed to make much difference, and I had some _really_ bad influence buddies :-) But I digress: that might have more to do with lackadaisical monitoring by the Powers That Be [waves to monitors].
In any event, hooray and salut for the "renowned iPhone hacking team" :=)
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It won't do the FBI any good. You need the phone unlocked to install and activate the jailbreak in the first place.
Jailbreaks in general are not useful for breaking into locked phones. The bits they modify aren't the bits controlling the phone lock.
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"I'm not interested in any whines about the terrible awful evil "loss of personal privacy" either. I've never had any concerns with privacy: having a TS clearance most of my working career, I always assumed everything I said, did, corresponded, places I went to, bad influence buddies, etc. were always on record. Never seemed to make much difference, and I had some _really_ bad influence buddies :-) But I digress: that might have more to do with lackadaisical monitoring by the Powers That Be [waves to monito
Ever wonder... (Score:1)
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Re: Ever wonder... (Score:2)
Far more likely that apple sucks at software
Well, considering the amount of malware in the Google Play Store, that must mean that Google sucks at software far worse than Apple, right?
Jailbreaking vs unlocking (Score:2)
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AFAIK, "jailbreaking" means to acquire the ability for the phone's owner to load apps from sources other than Apple's official App Store; "unlocking" means the ability for someone other than the phone's owner who doesn't have the passcode to bypass the passcode to unlock the phone. The two have nothing to do with each other. This article seems to be talking about the former.
That is incorrect.
"Jailbreaking" means to remove restrictions imposed by the manufacturer or operator, for which a single instance of purpose is to install unauthorized software (which can then be apps or command line utilities), but you can also uninstall or delete pre-installed software, get far more flexibility to customize the system software (like a customized control center or custom display themes), possibly remove or disable the carrier lock (see below), and there's more but I can't think of more r
Why jailbreak anymore? (Score:2)
Golden age for jailbreaking was the iPhone 4 with LockInfo, teathering, background apps, copy and paste. All of this is now native on the iPhone. The irony is Jobs used to tell developers "innovate your own stuff" and that "stuff" slowly trickled into iOS.