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9.5% Jailbreak? « Clark's Tech Blog — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:18:18 +0000

[...] Are 9.5% of iPhones Jailbroken? I’m a tad skeptical of that figure myself. Still it points to a lot of things Apple needs. I bet that if Apple/AT&T offered cheap occasional tethering, easy backgrounding, quick & easy turning off services like wireless or 3G, and a better map program that a lot of jailbreakers wouldn’t feel the urge to jailbreak. Seriously. I’m convinced Apple could easily fulfill the needs of jailbreakers easily. Of course the ideal situation is just offer non-App store installation of software like Palm or Android. Not just because of user needs but because of how it is destroying developer relations. I remember developer relations with Apple in the 90’s. Apple bent over backwards the past 8 years to try and repair that. And they are undoing it quickly. [...]

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By: patrickj

patrickj — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:53:30 +0000

I think a reminder to make the changes might be the best we could expect along those lines.

By: iGnome

iGnome — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:29:17 +0000

Thanks for that reply. Now I can be sure that SSH is nothing to do with me at the moment and I already changed my passwords. I'd say it would be a great service if someone wrote an app to change those passwords for those who would be a bit daunted by going into the terminal… Maybe it could even be part of the jailbreak sequence so that people are covered from the very start? Especially since the process is almost effortless with blackra1n. So easy to have good ideas for others! way beyond my abilities I'm afraid..

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:30:23 +0000

Very good point. I'm guessing not so many.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:51:23 +0000

Glad that post was useful for you. That's a good idea on the SSH post – will think about doing one. In the meantime, a little more on your thoughts / questions here: Cydia is the leading jailbreak app store. SSH stands for secure shell – it is a commonly use service / protocol used for connecting securely to remote systems. It is used on the desktop and on mobile devices like the iPhone. SSH is not linked to Cydia as you are thinking in the comment above. Its only link to Cydia is that there are versions of it that can be installed from within Cydia – search for OpenSSH and you'll see it.

There should not be any problem with updating iTunes.

By: iGnome

iGnome — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:32:37 +0000

Patrick I found the post about changing the passwords really really useful. I just wonder if you could put up a kind of SSH for dummies post? You say only run the SSH service when you really need to but I guess many new jailbreakers would not have a clue when or why this would be. I'm guessing this is something to do with how Cydia keeps track of what is has stored to allow me to restore but that does that mean that when I don't have Cydia running I'm not using SSH and therefore not vulnerable? Maybe I'm completely wrong? I think a succinct how does Cydia, SSH work post or link to existing post would be invaluable. Thanks a million

By: sysrage

sysrage — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:19:53 +0000

Even more interesting the number is still going up after PrivaCy was released. Wonder how many people use PrivaCy.