“There are good reasons for keeping jailbreaks [ ] closed source”

> Both are actively maintained by groups of people who know what they are doing.

Just like when TaIG knew what they were doing. [0]

What stops a random organization to sponsor these projects which a behind-closed-door deal that also includes bundling third-party code which is used for ads or data collection?

I said this before with checkra1n [1] and I’ll say it again: Use at your own risk. We are still waiting for checkra1n to be open source despite them saying an open source release is ‘coming soon’.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2013/12/22/ios-7-jailbreak-installs-pira...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21500580