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Not too surprising based on economics alone. Presumably a security professional selling a usable exploit to a company like Celibrite pays far better than the $
by notadoc 9y ago
Not too surprising based on economics alone.
Presumably a security professional selling a usable exploit to a company like Celibrite pays far better than the $0 that comes from releasing it as a "jailbreak" to the general public.
- saagarjha 9y agoI'd assume things like these are generally difficult to release to the public in any meaningful way, since they often require hardware hacks like desoldering components.
- threeseed 9y agoWhat ? No they don't. All of the jailbreaks have just involved tethering your phone to iTunes or visiting a particular website or app. There's never been a need to do any desoldering.
- AgentME 9y agoI think he's just talking about attacks against locked devices. I'd consider that a different category of thing than jailbreaks (rooting an unlocked device).
- cheeze 9y agoAll of the jailbreaks that were released as easily accessible jailbreaks. It's definitely plausible that this exploit requires direct access of pinouts on the motherboard. The difference is just that those exploits which were difficult enough that they required soldering generally weren't released or didn't get much traction. That being said, I remember soldering a modchip on my original xbox 16 years ago