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Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

882 points • by pavel_lishin • yesterday at 4:21 PM • 572 comments • view on HN

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zb3 • yesterday at 4:38 PM

Too bad this will be patched instead of allowing the device owner to control their own device.

Of course it's better that they found that before some shady mercenary spyware company, but I'd also want to control my ios device the same way they did in the video, but no, that's not for us.

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bozdemir • yesterday at 9:30 PM

public wont be getting this jailbreak, it is just another flex like elon's flipping car.

NamlchakKhandro • yesterday at 7:16 PM

In this thread. Apple Acolytes Anonymous.

Seriously, California has a cathedral problem, may the vault dweller succeed.

aftbit • yesterday at 6:11 PM

Now - does the Signal 1-click work on Graphene?

nalekberov • yesterday at 4:37 PM

I think we will probably see more and more restrictions on frontier models in the coming months. This is not what behemoths like Apple and Sony want to see.

Paradoxically, people are happier to buy things that they have control over, but boy, Apple loves to control every layer of consumerism.

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getcrunk • yesterday at 10:16 PM

First of all this is crazy that even on hn we were a few days behind this.

Second fuck Apple. Fuck all tech companies. And seriously fuck late stage capitalism. Foss or nothing. There should be a rule if you pay for it it has to be foss. This way people can still make proprietary but they just can’t charge for it.

We have zero privacy, zero security, all our politicians and all the corporations are against us.

Media parsing is an endless exploit vector. Like fuck. At some point you have to be like they (not just Apple) keep it broken

An yea I know foss gets these issues too. But if the only option was foss, then at least the whole world’s focus would be on it

CH-Abhinav • yesterday at 5:26 PM

Bro rewrite IOS in Rust :)

Humberd • today at 7:56 AM

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jonathanstrange • yesterday at 4:43 PM

My dream is to release an iOS app that self-installs and not say anything special about it other than having a "Download for iPhone" button on my website. If someone asked me, I'd answer: "Huh, what do you mean? It's our app for the iPhone."

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v3ai • yesterday at 6:39 PM

BASED

whynotmaybe • yesterday at 4:33 PM

Eli5 the iMessage video? They open a file that calls their webapp?

ValtteriL • yesterday at 4:53 PM

Curious to see how many tokens was spent

Foxhuls • yesterday at 6:01 PM

I guess I've never really understood why people who don't like the way the iPhone and apple ecosystem work buy apple products. There are plenty of other options out there. Every time articles about this and the App Store pop up it seems as if the comments are filled with a whole lot of android users that are upset that iPhone's aren't like androids. That's not to say those are all of the comments and there aren't clearly iPhone users who want these options but again, why buy a product that doesn't support these things if they're so important to you in the first place.

complicitMom • today at 9:21 AM

marvelous to see that your kids and grandkids wont be safe because capable people will rather do this than care about safety and security, opening up more and more attack surface ...

god fucking damn it, they really turned hackers into exactly what they wanted.

one can't help but manically lough at the ridiculous deformed minds of these people.

and it feeds corporations in such a perfect manner. if you don't want to be at the whims of disgusting private people that constantly escape law enforcement, all you can do is join a corpo and their VPNs so you have an admin team with faces and names that you can rely on and who know you do your part in the company. law enforcement is fucking worthless. I can't believe this. staying anonymous all the time, never letting any normal people with normal lives know when they are in danger or being watched.

god fucking damn it, these fucking lying lefty fucking fucks