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Why Jailbreak?

I'm curious: why do people jailbreak? ... Ever since the Library of Congress ruled in favor of jailbreaking although it may void your warranty and now there is a browser-based jailbreak, I've started to pay attention to jailbreaking, at least a little ... My friend Jeff Barszcz posted some of his reasons, and I found some of them really compelling ... The last time I really paid attention was before Apple opened the App Store, and I'm guessing a lot has changed since then ... Here is what I know

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Visualized: iPhone 4 jailbreak makes itself at home

Sorry folks, we don't think this one falls under "fair use." Nice try though ... Visualized: iPhone 4 jailbreak makes itself at home originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:11:00 EST ... Please see our terms for use of feeds ... Permalink  Email this  Comments ...

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New iPhone Jailbreakme.com method allows for malicious phone access

If you haven’t heard by now, you probably don’t have an iPhone, but you can unlock your iDevice by visting www.jailbreakme.com. However, the exploit used to jailbreak iPhone, iPod and iPad devices is reportedly about to be turned against the hacking… ...

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iPhone 4 jailbreak enables FaceTime video calling over 3G

We'd actually already hacked up a 3G FaceTime video call using an iPhone 4 and a MiFi, but now that Apple's latest handset has been jailbroken, you can toss the extra hardware -- you just need a little Cydia app called My3G, which lets you run WiFi apps over 3G. FaceTime video quality appears to be unaffected, but from what we've seen the framerates suffer depending on your connection -- pretty much what you'd expect to get when running a video stream optimized for high-bandwidth connections on

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iPhone FaceTime not just for faces, declares phone sex industry

Steve Jobs has done his level best to keep pornography and adult content out of the iPhone App Store, but if the history of the Internet has shown us one thing, it's that any attempt to place a wall between porn and the raging tide of user erections is the definition of futility – for each one you strike down, another one springs up stronger than the first. So it will come as little surprise that the adult industry has scrambled to take advantage of the new iPhone 4's ability to make

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iPhone devteam releases browser-based 4.x jailbreak

Have you been waiting for an easy-to-use jailbreak for your iOS 4.x device? Well, you may have to wait a little longer. Last we checked, the just-announced browser-based jailbreak (a return of jailbreakme.com) was so swamped that the server stopped responding. Jailbreak expert Comex tweets that he is working to restore the site from heavy loads ... Once that happens, you should be able to jailbreak your iDevice by browsing to jailbreakme.com in your mobile Safari application. There you'll be

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Official: iPhone 4 jailbreak hits from iPhone Dev Team (updated with video)

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Will jailbreaking your iPhone void your warranty?

According to the manufacturer, maybe. Intrepid Apple blognaut Leander Kahney rang up Apple, asked the question above, and got a response. This was more than we got when several of us asked Apple multiple variations of the same question. Apple's statement, as seen on Cult of Mac: ... "Apple's goal has always been to insure that our customers have a great experience with their iPhone and we know that jailbreaking can severely degrade the experience. As we've said before, the vast majority of

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hacksugar: iPhone 4 jailbreak accomplished but not ready for public release

When we talk about "jailbreaking" the iPhone, that means opening up the underlying file system on the phone for full read/write access; on a vanilla iPhone, only the 'userland' data is accessible to users and apps. The term is derived from Unix jargon, where a "chroot jail" is the limited section of the file system that an underprivileged app can access ... A jailbreak allows third parties to install and run any software they want, rather than the subset of iPhone apps approved by Apple and

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hacksugar: Wireless iTunes syncing makes it to jailbroken iPhones

Cables, schmables. Why occupy valuable USB slots when you can make iTunes data fly magically over virtual intertubes to and from your home computer? New to the jailbreak world, Wi-Fi Sync introduces over-the-air sync to iPhone devices ... The application works like this: you install a client app on your desktop computer (10.5 and 10.6 Mac only at this time), which you can download for free from the Wi-Fi Sync website. Then, run the $9.99 Wi-Fi Sync application on your iPhone. Your phone will

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