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You used to be able to jailbreak one of the first iPhones and install Cydia just by visiting some page in Safari and clicking on a button, IIRC. I never did thi

You used to be able to jailbreak one of the first iPhones and install Cydia just by visiting some page in Safari and clicking on a button, IIRC. I never did this myself, so my memories might be inaccurate though.

SlashmanX 11y ago
You're correct. jailbreak.me I think it was called
- mbrd 11y ago
  It was always amusing to visit the Apple store and see a jailbroken iPhone on display when this vulnerability worked.
- outadoc 11y ago
  And it was resurrected later on - by comex, I think.
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haywardsmyfault 11y ago
Right! One of the famous initial iPhone OS exploits involved a vulnerability in LibTiff. Decoding a crafted .tiff in Safari would grant the site's javascript root access. Read more: https://books.google.com/books?id=1kDcjKcz9GwC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=1kDcjKcz9GwC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA...
epmatsw 11y ago
Yep, it was a pdf parsing exploit I believe.
josu 11y ago
It was actually a clever "Slide to Jailbreak" rather than a click. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe