Re: [Fed-Talk] iPhone 4 Jailbreak via browser exploit
Re: [Fed-Talk] iPhone 4 Jailbreak via browser exploit
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] iPhone 4 Jailbreak via browser exploit
- From: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:09:32 -0500
All true, but a local jailbreak could just as easily exploit you in a variety of ways in the same ways as a web site could...
- Dave
On Aug 2, 2010, at 9:05 AM, Nichols, Jared - 1170 - MITLL wrote:
> Myself, I took it more as exposing the vulnerabilities in the Mobile
> Safari browser rather than a convenience thing. If I were to jailbreak my
> phone, I'd also likely do it "offline."
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> I figure if you can jailbreak a phone with the security hole, what else
> can you do with it?
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> Jared F. Nichols
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> MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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> On 8/2/10 9:38 AM, "Joel Esler" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> This is the thing will jailbreaking. At your own risk. I, for one,
>> won't be allowing a freaking website to hack my phone.
>>
>> Kthnkx.
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>> On Aug 2, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Villano, Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC wrote:
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>>> Not so sure about using a website. Isn't that an invitation for
>>> hackers to hack the site and get into all those phones?
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Nichols, Jared - 1170 - MITLL" <email@hidden>
>>> Date: Monday, August 2, 2010 9:14
>>> Subject: [Fed-Talk] iPhone 4 Jailbreak via browser exploit
>>> To: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/08/01/hackers_release_browser_ba
>>>> sed_jailbreak_for_iphone_4.html
>>>>
>>>> Since Jailbreaking was of topic last week, I thought we'd continue
>>>> with this little nugget of info.
>>>>
>>>> "Unlike previous jailbreaks, which required users to run software
>>>> on their Mac or PC and tether their iPhone to their computer, the
>>>> latest hack is done entirely within the Safari browser.
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>> Joel Esler
>> http://www.joelesler.net
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