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"Unless they're downright critical or enable jailbreaking", you mean.

• JoshTriplett 15y ago
  In fairness, many of the bugs which enable jailbreaking also represent serious security problems. For instance, the various iterations of web-based exploits fundamentally do represent remote code execution, a serious bug in any browser environment. On any other platform, we'd classify them exclusively as security vulnerabilities; however, on iOS, the user has to take advantage of security vulnerabilities to break into their own system.
  • eridius 15y ago
    s/many/all/
    • JoshTriplett 15y ago
      Not necessarily. Remote exploits, definitely, but entirely local jailbreaks that require booting the phone into a specialized firmware-loading mode don't actually impact the user's security, just Apple's anti-tampering guards against the user.
    • ootachi 15y ago
      Wrong. The first jailbreak was done because the iPhone trusted the restore mode commands coming from iTunes. The protocol was totally reworked so that the iPhone would only run some canned scripts. This did nothing to improve device security (it pretty much only enabled the jailbreak), but Apple fixed it fast.