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I don't think the children were ever in any danger. If anything, having to jailbreak the iPad is more of a challenge and promotes the hacking spirit. Further
by NathanKP 17y ago
I don't think the children were ever in any danger. If anything, having to jailbreak the iPad is more of a challenge and promotes the hacking spirit. Further on down the thread someone mentions the fact that in Turkey, most of the iPhone users, even non-power users, have jailbroken iPhones. I think that in this respect Apple's attempt at security may even promote hacking and jailbreaking. It may be a healthy experience to start with a locked device and have to jailbreak it.
- gfodor 17y agoAwesome observation. Going through the jailbreak process is almost like a rite of passage to hackerdom -- kind of neat if you think about it. I could see this becoming a formality 5-10 years from now that people go through for old-times sake, similar to how we always write "Hello World" whenever we start in a new language.
- daeken 17y agoIt's the only reason I've ever been interested in Apple's mobile devices. I joined the iPhone Dev Team right after the iPhone came out and worked on it through the initial unlock. Once the challenge was gone, I moved on to greener pastures. It wasn't to get some specific goal (I never really installed any apps on my phone), but just to do it and have some fun. Everyone should reverse-engineer something like that at some point -- the feeling can't be beat.