Comments on: Jailbroken iPhones – Security Risk?

By: Pro Jailbreak

Pro Jailbreak — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:19:40 +0000

Brad Zimmerman Says:

July 3rd, 2009 at 1:43 pm Haha, because the gestapo App Store approvers are security experts, so by installing one of the 50,000+ apps on your phone “Approved by APPLE!” then definitely no security issues?

Get real. Yes, if you jailbreak your phone, enable the SSH server, forget/fail to change the root and mobile user passwords and install a bunch of **** from jim bob’s random repository you might just be a bit more open than you’d prefer. Same as installing something on your Mac box or Win box (though far more likely on your Win box).

I, for one, live by and love apps like xGPS, MCleaner, SBSettings and NemusSync. I love that I can tweak the GUI to be the way that I want it. I really like the ability to run scripts from a real command prompt. I like being able to use Fring/Skype to do VoIP calls over 3G. I like being able to record video with CyCorder.

In short, my iPhone 3G is just like my computers: customized and tweaked to fit MY needs, not Steve Jobs’ needs, your needs or the general population’s needs. MY iPhone. MY needs.

Amen Brad!! Well Said.. Apple should take note of the Jailbreaking Community, If they opened up the Iphone like Legends of IphoneDevs & Cydia did there would be a F&*K load People not Jailbreaking there Iphones.

@Brandon Heat QUOTE - Jailbreaking your iPhone is not illegal. Not Tru, Apple have takin it to court to Make it Illegal because we are Opening there OS......

By: Brandon Heat

Brandon Heat — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:41:52 +0000

@ pimpossible. You put what on your credit card? You bought a jailbroken phone or you paid someone by credit card to jailbreak your phone?

Either way, if you pay for a jailbroken phone, your an idiot. If you paid someone to jailbreak your phone, your retarded. If someone sold a jailbroken phone online it's more than likely because they effed it up and want to dump the problem on someone else while getting paid to do so.

Paying someone to jailbreak your phone is just retarded. You can easily do it yourself if your willing to learn the very few simple steps and download a very easy to use program. Honestly, a crippeled moneky could do it.

Now that I've finished scalding you for being an idiot, the answer to your question is no. You can not and will not get in trouble by the police if you jailbreak or pay to jailbreak your phone. The only time such an event would occur is if you were also buying heroin with your credit card and the idiot listed it as heroin and the police investigated.

Jailbreaking your iPhone is not illegal. It just "voids your warrenty" unless you revert to the simple out of box iPhone os.

By: pimpossible

pimpossible — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:32:46 +0000

If u jailbreak your iPod and you put in your credit card can’t you kinda get in trouble? Arrested? Sued? Like that lil 12 yr old girl who got sued by napster those yrs back for downloading illegal data etc…?

By: Johnny B

Johnny B — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:49:03 +0000

Why put rims on a car? Or a sound system? Or tint the windows? That’s the same reason people Jailbreak their Iphones.

By: Marge

Marge — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:10:13 +0000

If you don’t like the iphone as it is, and feel the need to jailbreak it for it to become the phone you want, then why bother buying one? There are hundreds of phones out there – buy one of them and stop whinging!

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:34:40 +0000

Brendan,

I had the same issue when I jailbroke my iphone 3g. You will have to remove the apps from the iphone and then reload the apps that you had on your device prior to the jailbreak. That's the process I followed when I had the exact same issue. You should then be ok. My jailbreak has been working fine since I solved that issue.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:57:33 +0000

So I jailbroke my iPhone 3G over the weekend and it was great...at first. Now today, I try to open any app that I downloaded from the Apple AppStore and they open for 1-2 seconds then close. I've rebooted multiple times with no luck. All stock apps run fine and anything I loaded from Cydia works fine but nothing else. FK jailbreaking this thing, I didn't spend 200 dollars and wait in line for an iPhone just to fk it up. Keep that in mind....I also didn't download anything except a GPS app and a skin.

By: Whitney Thompson

Whitney Thompson — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:17:23 +0000

@Brad Zimmerman

Your post is the only worthwhile one on here. So true and so hilarious! Thanks for the meaningful insight!

By: antonioj

antonioj — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:24:14 +0000

how long jailbreaking started? how many malicious apps have been found on Cydia? how many people claim their jb iphone was damaged by such an app?

if ANY such dangerous app appeared on Cydia, it would signaled has such by the community in seconds, and after only the retarded would be using it...

By: Mike Overbo

Mike Overbo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:26:24 +0000

honestly, security on the iphone relies on security through obscurity, we don't get security patches from apple on a regular basis, we only get monolithic 'service packs'.

security on the device is going to suck. apple's essential response to a security intrusion on the iphone would be to re-flash some trusted firmware. and if god forbid you want to verify the security of your phone yourself, you have to jailbreak it.

so code signing by itself isn't going to cut it.

/schneier fan