I think it's unlikely the evad3rs actually included a backdoor in their payload
They agreed to bundle an app store who's only purpose is piracy (0xabadidea and Paul Haddad worked to remove their piracy system previously) without in the slightest wondering what it would be used for. From what I've read there's still bits of the Chinese scumware installed when you jailbreak in another country, and given the opinion of the Chinese company involved.. I wouldn't put it past them.
I truly hope that geohot or another skilled developer repackages their jailbreak with a copy of MobileSubstrate that actually works and a Cydia build that's built properly by saurik. The evad3rs have completely lost any trust they have, and from pod2g's tweets they're extremely aware of how badly they fucked this up.
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They agreed to bundle an app store who's only purpose is piracy (0xabadidea and Paul Haddad worked to remove their piracy system previously) without in the slightest wondering what it would be used for. From what I've read there's still bits of the Chinese scumware installed when you jailbreak in another country, and given the opinion of the Chinese company involved.. I wouldn't put it past them.
I truly hope that geohot or another skilled developer repackages their jailbreak with a copy of MobileSubstrate that actually works and a Cydia build that's built properly by saurik. The evad3rs have completely lost any trust they have, and from pod2g's tweets they're extremely aware of how badly they fucked this up.
I've just come across this write-up by the evasion team, I'm not sure how to interpret it:
http://evasi0n.com/l.html