[Ecks]

Jailbreaking is the art of hacking into Apple's ultra-secure iOS operating system and unlocking it, and thus allowing users to customize the phone, and write or install any software unimpeded by Apple's restrictions. At the time I met with Todesco (a person who offered jailbreaking service), in December 2016, there was no known jailbreak (for the iPhone 7), no public knowledge of this hack, for the latest iOS version that was installed on my iPhone (iOS 10.2). The world's first jailbreaking step-by-step procedure, discovered in 2007, was posted online for all to see. Subsequent jailbreaks were used by millions of people. At one point, there was even a website, called jailbreakme.com, that was free for all to use and jailbroke your phone simply by visiting it. Ten years after the iPhone hit the sleek tables of Apple Stores worldwide, and the first-ever jailbreak, that Wild West is gone. There's now a professionalized, multi-million dollar industry of iPhone security research. It's a world where jailbreaking itself, at least jailbreaking as we've come to know it, might be over.

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[zabo]

Damn, I remember when I was really young watching my older cousin jailbreak his iPhone 3G and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Good times.

[Ecks]

What's funny is I just remotely jailbroke an iphone two weeks ago.

[zorrophreak]

iPhone security was some of the most amazing things, and the culture of the primary jailbreakers was great. So many people were a part of it, and it really was a beautiful culture.

[mothered]

There's now a professionalized, multi-million dollar industry of iPhone security research. It's a world where jailbreaking itself, at least jailbreaking as we've come to know it, might be over.

Nothing Is over.

Whilst the IPhone security pros do their job, go home, read a book and fall asleep thereafter, there's also millions of dedicated hackers who work around the clock (some who don't sleep at all) to achieve their objective. In the mind of a hacker, failure Is not an option.

[Blink]

This was a good read.

We'll see what happens with the iOS hacking community in the future.

Good luck to those who need it.

[Lokes]

I personally never had a jailbroken device before, because if I needed my phone to do certain things, which a normal iPhone couldn't, I'd rather go for an android one, since they offer way more customization, without tampering with the OS itself.

Curious who gets on top tho, the iOS security team or the hacker faction.