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Jailbreaking is generally voluntary on the user's part. Correct me if I'm wrong but insofar as you could jailbreak an ios device by visiting a url that would be

Jailbreaking is generally voluntary on the user's part. Correct me if I'm wrong but insofar as you could jailbreak an ios device by visiting a url that would be an epic zero day exploit. Apple's secret is not allowing you to download and execute code from random websites. Oh, and memory protection.

tarabukka 14y ago
The exploit used in comex's jailbreakme was just a PDF vulnerability. Sliding the "slide to jailbreak" simply loaded the correct PDF with some JavaScript; it wasn't actually needed. Memory protection? That's a basic feature of a kernel? Are we talking about each platform's ability for native code to mmap() executable memory or something?
- runjake 14y ago
  I think he's talking about stuff like ASLR, which didn't even begin to approach robustness until Android 4.1. iOS has had the jump (pun intended) on that for a while.
- Tloewald 14y ago
  The original article concerns a bypass of application address space.