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Jailbreaker extraordinaire Nicholas Allegra – aka Comex – no longer with Apple after email snafu
In August of 2011, Apple hired famed JailBreakMe developer Comex -aka Nicholas Allegra – as an intern. If you recall, JailBreakMe was a tool that enabled users to easily get through Apple’s iOS security measures and install any app of their choosing onto their device. At the time, JailBreakMe was described thusly: JailbreakMe is the […]
Continue reading...Apple goes after AppTrackr in latest effort to curb iOS piracy
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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I’ll be honest. I used to think iOS jailbreaking was on its way out. Sure, it made a whole lot of sense back when there was no official iTunes App Store, and perhaps it even had a place back when Apple ruled the app store with an iron fist, but who is really interested in […]
Continue reading...Zephyr offers new and intuitive multitasking gestures for jailbroken iPhones
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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Apple has increasingly shown an interest in reaching out to Jailbreak developers and, gasp!, hiring them. Most recently, Apple this past Summer hired Peter Hajas, the developer of MobileNotifier that was only available via Cydia. Apple certainly has a lot of smart people working under its employ, but some of the apps/tweaks available for jailbroken […]
Continue reading...SiriOus removed from Cydia app store after Nuance refuses to offer license
Thursday, December 1, 2011
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As one of the more compelling features in iOS 5, it’s not too surprising to see a number of Siri imitators hti other mobile platforms. Also to be expected are jailbreak hacks enabling Siri to run on devices other than the iPhone 4S. A few weeks ago we highlighted a developer who, as a proof […]
Continue reading...JailBreakMe author Comex conducts Q&A ahead of his Apple internship
Monday, August 29, 2011
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Last week we reported that Apple had hired famed jailbreaker Comex (real name: Nicholas Allegra) as an intern. Presumably, Apple’s iOS team was tired of having their iOS security handiwork continually hacked/bypassed (with increasing ease no less) by the 19 year old Allegra. Apparently, if you can’t beat em’, hire em’. Hell, Facebook and Microsoft […]
Continue reading...Apple hires famed JailBreakMe developer Comex as an intern
Friday, August 26, 2011
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Ever since the iPhone was released in 2007, Apple has been involved in a game of cat and mouse with iPhone jailbreakers. “We try to stay ahead,” Steve Jobs once said with respect to iPhone jailbreaking. “People will try to break in, and it’s our job to stop them from breaking in.” Over the past […]
Continue reading...JailbreakMe creator Nicholas Allegra, aka Comex, profiled by Forbes
Thursday, August 4, 2011
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Shortly after the iPhone first debuted, Apple CEO Steve Jobs described attempts to keep jailbreakers at bay as a “constant cat and mouse game.” “We try to stay ahead,” Jobs said. “People will try to break in, and it’s our job to stop them from breaking in.” Since then, jailbreaking has evolved from users swapping […]
Continue reading...iOS 5 already jailbroken
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
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Despite iOS 5 incorporating a number of features that made jailbreaking the iPhone so attractive, the jailbreak community remains alive and well, and more importantly, committed. Within 24 hours of its debut, iOS 5 has already been jailbroken. TUAW reports: According to iOS hacker MuscleNerd, the exploit uses limera1n and is a tethered boot on […]
Continue reading...Jailbreak advertising goes mainstream as Toyota ads hit Cydia app store
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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And so the jailbreak community appears stronger than ever now that hackers recently released an untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1, Apple’s latest firmware update. Curious jailbreakers should note that the hack works on most iOS devices but not the iPad 2 as that “requires a bootrom or iBoot-level exploit to install, and the iPad2 is […]
Continue reading...Apple Stores block access to Cydia on in-store wifi network
Monday, March 28, 2011
iPhone jailbreaking may not be in the news much anymore, but the jailbreak community is alive and well. It typically takes jailbreakers just a few days to to compromise a new iOS release and Apple is perpetually involved in what CEO Steve Jobs once called a constant game of cat and mouse. Comically, Jobs quipped […]
Continue reading...Play a practical joke on someone’s iPad with Graviboard – eventually
Thursday, December 9, 2010
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Want to play a mean (read: hilarious) practical joke on someone you know with an iPad? Okay, we should probably tell you that you need a jailbroken iPad for this to work. Hell, to be honest, this app isn’t even out yet, but the video for Graviboard is certainly appealing – even if it’s only vaporware […]
Continue reading...Apple ups the ante in its fight against jailbreaking
Saturday, November 27, 2010
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iPhone jailbreaking may have been legalized by the Library of Congress, but that doesn’t mean Apple has to make things easier for would-be hackers and tinkerers. In it’s most recent effort to thwart jailbreaking, TIPB reports that the most recent iOS update (iOS 4.2.1) now comes with a boot level signature check that precludes a […]
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Friday, October 19, 2012
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