Article: How Jailbreaking Puts Your iPhone at Rick
By: Jesse Emspak
Date Published: May 28, 2014
In the article by Jesse Emspak, he talks about why jailbreaking a cell phone is not the best idea one can have. For those of you who do not know what jailbreaking is, you break into the phone’s code and allow users to "add apps and modifications that aren't authorized." Emspak stated that originally jailbreaking became popular on Apple devices in 2007 and 2008 when there were not many apps available to download. However, once a device is jailbroken, malicious code that reaches a mobile device has the capability of digging through everything on the phone. To jailbreak an iPhone, you need the root password for iOS ("alpine") to be able to affect the system. This however, is easily found by the public and has been the same code for the seven years prior to this article.
In the phone’s original form, before it was jailbroken, apps had to ask permission to access areas of the phone like the address book or photos. Once jailbroken, applications no longer have to request permission for this privilege. If you are thinking that you want to jailbreak your phone and just take a quick trip to the Apple Store if your phone gets compromised, think again. Jailbreaking your Apple device is considered "a violation of the warranty agreement." Therefore, AppleCare will no longer help to fix your device, whether it was infected from a virus or if you dropped and broke your phone. However, Emspak stated that "the risk of being infected by malware isn't much higher on jailbroken iPhones than non-jailbroken ones." His reasoning behind this is that Android is considered a much larger target due to its open source code. Even with this information, it is best to refrain from jailbreaking your device just to stay on the safe side.
This information was not a surprise to me in the slightest. The only thing that did catch my attention was the fact that the root code is available to the public and has not changed recently. The best thing for consumers to do is to refrain from jailbreaking their device, and if they do jailbreak it, download antivirus software and be cautious of what is being downloaded onto the device. Hopefully Apple will change their root password to help prevent users from illegally modifying their device.
Article:
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-jailbreak-risks,news-18850.html
Image:
https://www.ikream.com/2015/06/must-have-jailbreak-apps-for-iphone-6-and-iphone-6-plus-23027
By: Jesse Emspak
Date Published: May 28, 2014
In the article by Jesse Emspak, he talks about why jailbreaking a cell phone is not the best idea one can have. For those of you who do not know what jailbreaking is, you break into the phone’s code and allow users to "add apps and modifications that aren't authorized." Emspak stated that originally jailbreaking became popular on Apple devices in 2007 and 2008 when there were not many apps available to download. However, once a device is jailbroken, malicious code that reaches a mobile device has the capability of digging through everything on the phone. To jailbreak an iPhone, you need the root password for iOS ("alpine") to be able to affect the system. This however, is easily found by the public and has been the same code for the seven years prior to this article.
In the phone’s original form, before it was jailbroken, apps had to ask permission to access areas of the phone like the address book or photos. Once jailbroken, applications no longer have to request permission for this privilege. If you are thinking that you want to jailbreak your phone and just take a quick trip to the Apple Store if your phone gets compromised, think again. Jailbreaking your Apple device is considered "a violation of the warranty agreement." Therefore, AppleCare will no longer help to fix your device, whether it was infected from a virus or if you dropped and broke your phone. However, Emspak stated that "the risk of being infected by malware isn't much higher on jailbroken iPhones than non-jailbroken ones." His reasoning behind this is that Android is considered a much larger target due to its open source code. Even with this information, it is best to refrain from jailbreaking your device just to stay on the safe side.
This information was not a surprise to me in the slightest. The only thing that did catch my attention was the fact that the root code is available to the public and has not changed recently. The best thing for consumers to do is to refrain from jailbreaking their device, and if they do jailbreak it, download antivirus software and be cautious of what is being downloaded onto the device. Hopefully Apple will change their root password to help prevent users from illegally modifying their device.
Article:
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-jailbreak-risks,news-18850.html
Image:
https://www.ikream.com/2015/06/must-have-jailbreak-apps-for-iphone-6-and-iphone-6-plus-23027
Comments
Post a Comment