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> Apple is exerting legal power and the threat of force to prevent you from doing what you want with your phone pursuant to the DMCA. No. https://www.wired.com
by judge2020 5y ago
> Apple is exerting legal power and the threat of force to prevent you from doing what you want with your phone pursuant to the DMCA.
No. https://www.wired.com/2010/07/feds-ok-iphone-jailbreaking/ https://www.wired.com/2010/07/feds-ok-iphone-jailbreaking/
They simply make it technically infeasible to jailbreak since jailbreaks run untrusted code that bypasses security restrictions (eg. adware that survives resets).
- sudosysgen 5y agoJust like for ripping DVDs, yes it is legal to do it personally. That's not what I was talking about, I'm talking about commercial jailbreak operations which are still illegal.
- judge2020 5y agoWhat makes them illegal? I imagine the only reason nobody does it is because there’s no market - anyone that wants their phone jailbroken probably doesn’t want to pay, or just doesn’t want to be without their phone for a week+. Plus, it’s not like a commercial operation like this is going to start making their own jailbreaks and then hoarding the exploits so that you can’t use your own PC to perform them - the jailbreak community would immediately hate such a company.
- sudosysgen 5y agoIt's illegal because of the DMCA. It's not legal to sell tools that bypass copy protection. You wouldn't need to send your phone or anything, you can do fully remote jailbreak from a web browser with the right exploits. You'd be surprised how popular pay-to-jailbreak shops are/were in places where this isn't enforced. You go there and the guy jailbreak your phone in front of you then hands it back to you. There's absolutely a market