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I wonder if we will now see more hardware-based jailbreaks. It's a bit like with oil drilling. Once the easily accessible options are gone, people reconsider o
by captainmuon 11y ago
I wonder if we will now see more hardware-based jailbreaks.
It's a bit like with oil drilling. Once the easily accessible options are gone, people reconsider options that used to be considered too expensive to exploit or too damaging for the environment. Like fracking, oil sands, oil wells that are very deep or far up in the arctic, ...
In the case of iOS explots, maybe you'll be able to jailbreak it over the lightning connector. Maybe you'll have to open the phone and hook up the circuit board to a device. Maybe someone in china will build a robot for phone shops that'll disassemble, jailbreak, and reassemble a phone in seconds (and replace a cracked screen while it is at it). Heck, maybe it'll become economic for criminals to bribe and/or blackmail Apple engineers to put a backdoor into iOS, or to leak keys?
- userbinator 11y agoHeck, maybe it'll become economic for criminals to bribe and/or blackmail Apple engineers to put a backdoor into iOS, or to leak keys? Or just become Apple engineers... I'm sure there's people out there who would be absolutely thrilled at the idea of working for Apple and writing code for iDevices while at the same time secretly subverting them.