Why you should not jailbreak...

[Exact-Psience]

Also, jailbreaking isnt illegal, how you use it though, is up to you.

[Dubstep]

Troll thread.

[Carlos]

Originally Posted by SkyMuffin

It's not any less safe than say, having a Windows PC.

Exactly, you hit the nail on the head.

While using the official iOS it is impossible to send stealth text messages or start phone calls without the user's consent, there is nothing to stop you from installing malwares which conduct stealthy, costly activities, such as making premium calls... ( Check out this for example: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-increase.html )

In extreme cases, your phone bill will tell you why jailbreaking was a not-so-smart move.

[Jord]

This forum inspired me to jailbreak my iPod.

[x999x]

Originally Posted by Carlos

A colleague of mine jailbroke his iPhone 3GS. He was mainly curious and besides wanted to "try out" some expensive GPS apps (before buying of course...).
What he's got is an unreliable iPhone, with weirdly behaving apps, and shorter battery time.
Besides, you are as unprotected as a non-iOS user, since you can install any unchecked crap on your phone... (I read somewhere that in the official Android PlayStore there are about 3000 trojans due to the lack of the app review process, while such "apps" are completely uncommon in the AppStore.)

All he wants now is to somehow revert back to the normal state, which seems to be imposible.

So is it really worth it? I would definitely suggest not to jailbreak your iPhone, *unless* you really have to and you know what you are doing.

Just my 2 cents.

Please add your story about issues after jailbreaking your iPhone. Comments are also welcome.


P.s.
Originally I wanted to post this in the "Why do you jailbreak" forum, but I think this is also worth a separate thread.

It doesn't sound like you or your friend are familiar with jailbreaks. I've been jailbreaking since iPhone 1 and when you did it all by command lines... I believe I've got enough "know how" and experience on the matter to say that:

1) Its completely safe
2) completely reversible
3) exactly how iPhones/iPads should be by default - OPEN & FREE

I couldn't help but respond because I don't want the misinformation in your post to dissuade others that have yet to experience the true potential of their iDevices.

[x999x]

Originally Posted by Carlos

Exactly, you hit the nail on the head.

While using the official iOS it is impossible to send stealth text messages or start phone calls without the user's consent, there is nothing to stop you from installing malwares which conduct stealthy, costly activities, such as making premium calls... ( Check out this for example: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-increase.html )

In extreme cases, your phone bill will tell you why jailbreaking was a not-so-smart move.

Try using official repos that come from the actual jailbreak community, NOT repos that distribute "warez" or "cracked" apps.

If you know the scene, you'd realize that Saurik, BigBoss and the Dev team run a tight ship. In fact, it was Pod2g who released a critical fix for iOS that closed malware backdoor before Apple corrected it in a firmware patch that came months later.

Please realize that even Apple approved apps can harvest your data, just look at PATH who was caught red handed data mining your info all under Apple's nose...

Seriously, do your homework.

[Bonky]

Originally Posted by x999x

It doesn't sound like you or your friend are familiar with jailbreaks. I've been jailbreaking since iPhone 1 and when you did it all by command lines... I believe I've got enough "know how" and experience on the matter to say that:

1) Its completely safe
2) completely reversible
3) exactly how iPhones/iPads should be by default - OPEN & FREE

I couldn't help but respond because I don't want the misinformation in your post to dissuade others that have yet to experience the true potential of their iDevices.

I'm in China and at the place where I work, not only do they have a person whose tertiary job is the constant research of jailbreaking to ensure that what you said is true and remains that way for everyone in the company. Every iOS device that they give out to employees for work is jailbroken, otherwise we'd have no way of letting the non-programmers test products before they're released into the App Store.

Because of the booming app market, there are probably 100's if not 1000's (if not even more) app software design companies all over and they all release their betas and minor patches through non-App Store channels because the validation process through App Store is either too slow or too rigid and most people who download apps generally just go to those non-App Store sites to get the latest releases of games well before they hit the App Store market.

All of the statistics I saw online reported that in China somewhere around 35% of devices are jailbroken, I find that hard to believe too, if I had to guess it'd be closer to at least 50%-60%. The only people who don't jailbreak are people who are given an iOS device as a gift and don't actually use it or people who bought a new device/version only to find out that it simply doesn't jailbreak easily. You can ask almost anyone you see walking around with an iPhone and they will be able to tell you how to jailbreak it and how the most recent versions for which devices can be jailbroken. If you ask if their device is jailbroken and it isn't, they will tell you it is just to avoid being asked why and possibly being embarassed.

That Apple doesn't just make doing a lot of things that MUST be done by anyone who wants to be up-to-date, with the fashion, and possess Android-competitive functionality is simply beyond my imagination. The question in China isn't whether one should jailbreak, the question is, do you want to be normal? If so, what are you waiting for?

[SkyMuffin]

Originally Posted by x999x

Try using official repos that come from the actual jailbreak community, NOT repos that distribute "warez" or "cracked" apps.

If you know the scene, you'd realize that Saurik, BigBoss and the Dev team run a tight ship. In fact, it was Pod2g who released a critical fix for iOS that closed malware backdoor before Apple corrected it in a firmware patch that came months later.

Please realize that even Apple approved apps can harvest your data, just look at PATH who was caught red handed data mining your info all under Apple's nose...

Seriously, do your homework.

Pretty much this. It's very, very difficult to actually download malicious stuff on an iOS device unless you are really actively searching out shady things.

Dude who replied to my post should have read through it all instead of picking out one line haha.

[Anctoh]

The funny thing is, I have a statistic that I made up but is probably 100% accurate.


Jailbreakers who are happy: 99%

Jailbreakers that aren't happy and switched back: .5%

People who heard from their friends or another un-reliable source
(Apple Corp.)that jailbreaking is bad and insecure: .45%

Jailbreakers who damaged their phone in the process of jailbreaking: .025%

Jailbreakers who installed something that put them in safe mode and they thought that meant it was broken: .024%

Jailbreakers who installed something that ACTUALLY broke their phone: .001%


The point is, there are too many reasons to jailbreak, no reasons not too, and too many reasons not to jailbreak that people made up.

[Anctoh]

Originally Posted by Carlos

Thanks for your replies. There might be good reasons to jailbreak. My main reason against it is that you loose the official reliability and the "safety net" coming with the official OS.

Or put it otherwise: whom do you trust - Apple or some unknown "hackers"?

You Understand that people actually develop anti-malware/spyware/virus protection FOR the iphone? And that it's EXCLUSIVELY on cydia? Hell, one of them is in the featured section of cydia as a must-have package! It's safe to say that if you keep your SSH off at all times you're phone is just as safe as it was before you jailbroke it. Even if you leave SSH on, how many people actually sit somewhere with a computer scanning for phones with SSH on and with alpine and root, just to hack into? Oh yeah; zero.

And Unknown? You don't download packages from names you don't recognize. There are hundreds if not thousands of names that are trusted in the jailbreak community and all it takes is a quick google search for a review of said package to see it in use and ensure that it's safe.