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Apple lockdown plans thwarted

by Nik Rawlinson on 16 August 2010 in Editorial

Legalising iPhone jailbreaking will put Apple off locking down Mac OS X. So now it’s legal to jailbreak your iPhone, in the US at least, but why would you want to? Well, for starters, there’s the thrill of being somewhat subversive, bucking the trend and hitting back against the authority that is Apple’s approval process, [...]

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Apple halts iOS jailbreak

by Simon Aughton on 12 August 2010 in News
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Apple has fixed two serious security vulnerabilities that allowed hackers free access to an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

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Apple has fix for iPhone security hole

by Simon Aughton on 5 August 2010 in News
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Apple says it has a fix for the iPhone security vulnerability exploited by the JailbreakMe hack.

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iPhone 4 jailbreak based on “scary” security flaw

by Simon Aughton on 4 August 2010 in News
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The first successful jailbreak of the iPhone 4 is based on a serious security vulnerability in mobile Safari, researchers have found.

Security expert Charlie Miller described the JailbreakMe hack — which requires nothing more than a single swipe of an iPhone’s screen — as “very beautiful work” but very worrying.

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Jailbreakers crack iPhone 4

by Simon Aughton on 2 August 2010 in News
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The iPhone Dev Team has published details of its first jailbreak for the iPhone 4, enabling users to run apps from sources other than the App Store and connect to unsupported mobile networks.

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