Apple is fighting jailbreaking, but not for the carriers. (Steve Jobs famously called them "orifices".) Apple is fighting jailbreaking to prevent piracy of App Store apps.
And they really aren't fighting it very hard. The last thing they fixed was a remotely exploitable hole which, when combined with another bug, let remote root a phone without the user's knowledge from a mere web page.
The fact that a remote root vulnerability existed means Apple doesn't care about jailbreaking? By that logic OpenBSD doesn't care about security because they've had two remote root vulnerabilities.
Oh, I see, but that doesn't demonstrate his point that Apple isn't fighting jailbreaking very hard. For that he would need an example of a vulnerability that Apple didn't fix.
I guess the point is that updates which fix vulnerabilities (which are the only way to jailbreak) can never be evidence the Apple is fighting jailbreaking. Apple will always fix vulnerabilities, everyone always should.
Remotely exploitable vulnerabilities, yes, but local vulnerabilities are much less urgent to fix. If Apple truly didn't care about jailbreaks, local-only vulnerabilities might stick around a lot longer.
No, I mean that the last time they "fought jailbreaking" was by fixing a horrendous remotely exploitable security bug. Not exactly a stunning example of fighting jailbreaking.
Apple isn't fighting piracy at all!
There are tools that crack an app with a single tap. If they are fight piracy, they should let the developers verify the app getting installed like how in-app-purchase is verified from Apple's server.
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Apple is fighting jailbreaking, but not for the carriers. (Steve Jobs famously called them "orifices".) Apple is fighting jailbreaking to prevent piracy of App Store apps.
And they really aren't fighting it very hard. The last thing they fixed was a remotely exploitable hole which, when combined with another bug, let remote root a phone without the user's knowledge from a mere web page.
The fact that a remote root vulnerability existed means Apple doesn't care about jailbreaking? By that logic OpenBSD doesn't care about security because they've had two remote root vulnerabilities.
I guess the point he was making is that making jailbreaking impossible by fixing the vulnerability was absolutely necessary.
Oh, I see, but that doesn't demonstrate his point that Apple isn't fighting jailbreaking very hard. For that he would need an example of a vulnerability that Apple didn't fix.
Well, there’s a thing that won’t happen :)
I guess the point is that updates which fix vulnerabilities (which are the only way to jailbreak) can never be evidence the Apple is fighting jailbreaking. Apple will always fix vulnerabilities, everyone always should.
Remotely exploitable vulnerabilities, yes, but local vulnerabilities are much less urgent to fix. If Apple truly didn't care about jailbreaks, local-only vulnerabilities might stick around a lot longer.
No, I mean that the last time they "fought jailbreaking" was by fixing a horrendous remotely exploitable security bug. Not exactly a stunning example of fighting jailbreaking.
Apple isn't fighting piracy at all! There are tools that crack an app with a single tap. If they are fight piracy, they should let the developers verify the app getting installed like how in-app-purchase is verified from Apple's server.