Nearly 1 million iOS jailbreaks over Memorial Day thanks to Absinthe
The developers behind the iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev, among others, released a new version of their iOS jailbreak tool, Absinthe, last Friday. But is jailbreaking iOS devices still en vogue? It certainly seems like it: the latest version, which performs an untethered jailbreak of nearly all iOS devices running iOS 5.1.1—including the iPad 3—was reportedly used to jailbreak at least 973,086 devices over the Memorial Day weekend. Jailbreaking skirts around the built-in security features of iOS, allowing users to install third-party software not approved by Apple, customize the user...
Published By: Ars Technica - Tuesday, 29 May, 2012
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