In an earlier post, I asked why there weren’t more free and useful sites around like that screen test thing.
Ha! Apparently there are!
A friend of mine, Ryan, recently had to restore his iPhone and was worried about jailbreaking it again and putting in Installer.app and he texted for advice.
Well, gone are the good old days of circuitous and tedious hacking - today, for people like Ryan its just a matter of navigating to a website with your iPhone or your iPod Touch and clicking ok to installing AppSnapp for 1.1.1.
All you need do is go to
http://jailbreakme.com
Yes, it’s that easy, believe it or not.
All the instructions and cautions are there if you’re the fraidycat, but it’s just a matter of agreeing to the jailbreak and you’re on your way to the wide and wonderful and often weird world of third party apps. Coolness.
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BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!
This jailbreakme thing has my “gagamba-sense” tingling! Consider this scenario: What if a clueless iPhone/iPod Touch user wanders to a website that promises free gadgets. But once in the background, that same website has already started to download all your contacts and other personal information — in the background!
That is an example of what a nefarious hacker is capable of doing all thanks to the TIFF exploit that is present in Mobile Safari. The same TIFF exploit used by jailbreakme(d0t)com!
Good thing a fix for the TIFF exploit is applied after running jailbreakme *and* a standalone fix is available via installer.app. But think about those “unlocked” iPhones out there (estimated at more than 750,000++)… they are vulnerable and *must* be patched!
BUT… if a patch is released by Apple, then people who have “jailbreak-ed” iPhones and iPod Touch might end up with … nah! I’d rather not think about this.
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