Comments on: iPhone jailbreak for the masses released

A group of hackers releases perhaps the easiest application yet for getting third-party software onto iPhones running the most up-to-date version of Apple's firmware.

[J.G.]

'Jailbreak' uses webpage

... to install. It will likely be the first of much malware targeted to iPhone users foolish enough to install an application from the Internet on a device in which every app runs as root. Perhaps Tom Krazit will next advise people to perform their own rhinoplasties and point them to a webpage that describes how.

[monkphin]

Missing information.

What the article misses is that the same software that runs to
hack the phone also patches the exact same exploit it uses,
rendering the possibility that the TIFF exploit can be used as
being nil. (I may be wrong in regards to the mention of the
patch, since I skimmed this, having read it elsewhere.)

Its also worth noting, that the patch is available separately from
the installer.app, for those of us who used the older, longer
methods.

[cary1]

I thought it was running Mac OS X....

... which doesn't have any viruses, trojans and spyware

[eastmanweb]

You might be able to do a factory restore?

"You might be able to do a factory restore to get AppSnapp off the phone..."

Has anyone confirmed that this can be done?

I wouldn't do any hacks to my phone until I knew I could restore it to factory defaults if I wanted to.

[monkphin]

Third party apps

A factory restore essentially re-writes the entire system
partition. Looking at the iPod Touch, it has a 300MB partition for
the system volume, I suspect the phone is the same. When you
do a software update/restore, it essentially overwrites this
partition with the OS - I've recovered some of my work-mates
iPods thanks to this (Mostly because they installed an
Application that forced OS X into a never ending crash/reboot
loop. Just power the unit off, then hold down both the sleep
button and the home button when you power it up, it will force
it into restore mode..

Not a clue how this bears on the sim unlock however.

[rorybaust]

never go bust

My hope is that Apple never go Ibust or else we will have a lot of people that will be deprived of a life.

Gadgets are just that, gadgets and it does not matter who makes them I hate Apple and won't use them and instead use Microsoft and other products it's what works for me, however I do find it really strange that a company that gets so much loyatity treats it's customers so bad and still the customers legitimise Apples behavior as being ok. These people love Apple yet Apple see them as a threat, its sounds arrogant to me.

oh and by the way The Iphone does not run on gas.

Oh and just because I have voiced a belief that does not agree with Apple or its followers it does not mean that I am wrong accept of course if I am.

[frz1]

Does it let me use the Iphone on my Verizon contract

That's all I care about. until then, I can't even think of buying an Iphone but, I have hopes.

[aduzik]

No.

Verizon and AT&T use different network technologies. AT&T uses GSM and Verizon uses CDMA. Even if the iPhone is unlocked, it will never work on Verizon or Sprint because both networks use CDMA technology and the iPhone is a GSM phone. Your only alternative to AT&T in the US is T-Mobile.

[cassio1]

iphone will not be on verizon or any CDMA carrier

It's a GSM phone, and will only work with GSM carriers even if
unlocked. The national carriers that support GSM are AT&T, and T-
Mobile. There may also be regional or local GSM carriers in your
area. If you are in europe, any of the european carriers should
work. youtube and visual voicemail will not easily work when the
phone is unlocked.