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There’s now a clever tool for getting around Apples signing, AltStore, which uses a server application on your computer to periodically sign the app (and has s
by MaxLeiter 6y ago
There’s now a clever tool for getting around Apples signing, AltStore, which uses a server application on your computer to periodically sign the app (and has some trick to bypass not requiring a developer account that involves an Apple Mail extension)
- derefr 6y agoAs it turns out, this is used as one of the listed bootstrap methods for getting the jailbreak going. It's a very different era for jailbreaking, these days. We don't actually need an ACE exploit as a bootstrap any more; we can just rely on various pseudo-officially-sanctioned methods of running arbitrary code (e.g. an XCode development provisioning profile.) A jailbreak is now just a privilege-escalation exploit. Interesting times.
- ValentineC 6y agoThe crazy thing is that it used to be even easier, but Apple broke some of the sideloading mechanisms. AltStore and its mods seem to be one of the few sideloading methods left for people who aren't paying $99/year for the Apple Developer Program.