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The most advanced jail-break tool. Coming soon to all devices on iOS 13.5

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Huh haven’t jailbroken my iPhones since my iPhone 5 back in 2014. Back then I feel that iOS was severely limited in functionality and jailbreaking allowed for custom solutions to problems Apple wasn’t addressing. Since then iOS has seen a plethora of features and I feel there’s little reason to jailbreak anymore. Does anyone know if there’s any good reason to jailbreak anymore? Any killer functionality that would make it worth it?

Run a server on that powerful arm?

Not very appealing, honestly.

That can't be cost efficient compared to alternatives can it?

2nd hands with broken glass cost peanuts, as weird as it sounds he may be onto something fun; ie. if you have working mic/speaker/camera you can also bump it to cctv/whatever.

iphone cluster would be fun to see, but probably better with apple tvs.

How could you run a server on a jailbroken iOS device?

Sideload apps?

Running apps that Apple don’t like on the App Store.

SSH’ing into your iPhone.

And the main reason for jailbreaking now is so you can dump source code from running IPAs with Frida.

The feeling you don't live in a golden jail?

I quit from jailbreak but I still miss Activator in iPhone that enables button customize to skip/play music by pressing volume button. I prefer pressing phone button than touching wireless earphone's button.

Also miss the ability to change default browser from Safari.

Switching the default apps. Sideloading. Arranging my home screens any way that I want.Tweaking the system any way that I want. Tweaking the UI any way that I want.

Allowing me to build some software and install it on the device I own without having to get it blessed by Apple.

These are all very good reasons to jailbreak.

The make or break is whether this one is finally untethered or not. I miss the days when the jailbreak community was abundant both in users and developers. Unfortunately it seems like its days are (have been?) numbered. A shame, because reverse engineering iOS[1] was a hell of a lot of fun.

[1] https://github.com/GN-OS/Bloard

This includes the iPhone Xs and 11 (and presumably all A12 and A13 devices). Was there a new exploit found on these chips? Last I checked only devices with chips older than the A12 were vulnerable to the checkra1n exploit.

new exploit:

> using a 0day kernel vulnerability from @Pwn20wnd

https://twitter.com/unc0verteam/status/1263260302713524225?s...

The baity title and the coming-soonness are two strikes against this submission. Does anyone want to argue in its favor? and if so, what should we change the title to?

The actual news here is that an iOS 13.5 kernel 0day is going to be released publicly. The exploit was paid for by a phone case manufacturer.

It isn't a great source, but the original tweet actually has more detail than the website: https://twitter.com/unc0verTeam/status/1263260302713524225?s...

Edit: I'd suggest pointing here for context - https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/20/jailbreak-for-all-ios-13-5-de...

Doesn't it make sense to wait until it's released?

Are iOS exploits becoming more common? Feels like a few years ago they were rare but now they’re being released more often.

Apparently they are, Zerodium has even stopped accepting new iOS privilege escalation exploits: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/14/zerodium_ios_flaws/

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