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Leo Laporte
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smokezzSep 9, 2010
LOL, suck it Jobs.
kingpSep 9, 2010
Let the game of cat and mouse begin. Good thing I use Android.
On a side note, Digg, can we flag comment spammers besides the thumbs down?
timuscaSep 9, 2010
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fusongSep 9, 2010
good point, kingp, there are so many insecured digg haters spamming the site, buried the nice comments.
timuscaSep 9, 2010
This account has been closed by the user
macharborguySep 9, 2010
the sensor issue hasn't been cropping up for me as much as it had been a few weeks ago. going to keep my jailbreak on for awhile.
onlinegames333Sep 9, 2010
where there is a will there is a way!
swift2Sep 9, 2010
Oh, great. Another security hole. Eat it, jailbreakers.
Closed AccountSep 9, 2010
I reported leo, because I dislike his articles reaching the front page.
silentspyderSep 9, 2010
he stopped doing that.
iamghostSep 9, 2010
Why does Apple care so much about people Jailbreaking their products? Less then 10% of their user base is doing it. (as of last year anyway)
http://www.iphonefreak.com/2009/08/jailbroken-stats-recent-survey-suggests-843-of-iphone-users-jailbreak.html
raidy11moonSep 9, 2010
because Apple is a bitch
johnnysoftwareSep 9, 2010
People who blindly jailbroke their systems did not know what they were doing, even if they thought they did in many cases. They quickly succumbed to downloading programs that intentionally or accidentally had included big security loopholes that would not have been approved by Apple until they got fixed. All these people did was remove the system's ability to reject trojans, and then immediately load up their system with one or more trojans. The trojans opened back doors that allowed worms to come in. At that piont, the press which had encouraged them to do all this, turned around and declared iPhones to have security risk. The real risk was breaking the security in the first place, and that was the fault of a press either being retarded, irresponsible, or manipulated by competitor's advertising dollars.
Moral: take risky advice from bloggers and news media sources with a vested interest other than yours with a grain of salt. A _huge_ grain of salt.
The news outlets for the most part did not put "Jailbroken iPhones" in their headlines about some iPhones getting hacked. They just said "iPhones". It was a huge distortion and could not have been accidental. If they were warning the public - about the problem they helped create - then they could and should have said the worms were only attacking jailbroken iPhones right in the headlines. Problem solved, no confusion or ambiguity at all.
cagrinoSep 9, 2010
New Digg, I'm so disappointed. An hour after a jailbreak article declaring the exploit a trap and *I* have to post this... It really is a ghost town.
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johnnysoftwareSep 10, 2010
Those hackers always advise iPhone users not to install the latest iOS so they can get the latest vital security fixes & major improvements from Apple. It is one of many things that makes their advice sound absurd and their whole software engineering approach to be a ludicrous failure for the real world.
They seem to have thought up the jailbreak idea for a dreamworld where Apple never fixes bugs or makes nice improvements. Every dev team I ever heard of assumes that the OS manufacturer will keep on making OS updates until the platform disappears.
Are these jailbreak guys writing their software in a dorm room, and just never got out and wrote software that was suitable for the real world where the OS changes all the time? They sound like a broken record with their "don't get Apple's improved software until you get our workaround for the new changes in it" refrain.
People update Macs, Windows, and frankly iPhones all the time without breaking apps written by other developers. If these guys were true developers and not just hackers, then their software wold not be so brittle. Also, if you read their release notes on their web sites, you quickly realize that it is not just brittle with respect to OS updates but many or all of the Jailbreak software releases are very flakey and create bugs at the system level that cause reliability problems and weird/unstable behavior.
The software is a joke. The people who download and install it are suckers.
smokezzSep 10, 2010
And you live in a dream world... most people don't update their phones OR jailbreak.