Jailbreak days numbered

The jailbreak procedure, which involves the removal of restrictions on access to the file system of the iPhone and iPad, quickly loses its popularity and could soon go into history. This opinion was expressed the renowned researcher and author of numerous books and training manuals on programming issues and cybersecurity Adrian Kingsley-Hughes.

As adrian says, the last jailbreak, and is run the operating system iOS 9.1 dated and in March this year.Since then it's been three months, and the current current system installed on the iPhone and iPad is iOS 9.3.2. However, the enthusiast community clearly has no time for updates from Apple, and in the future, this difference may increase, says Iksmedia.

Kingsley-Hughes sees several reasons for this situation. On the one hand, it is increasing user awareness about cyberbullying. The jailbreak procedure, but opens a number of opportunities (installation of third party applications, etc.), but at the same time protecting Apple is removed. And frightened messages from the last massive data leaks where users are less willing to dare this step.

On the other hand, the iOS ecosystem is already sufficiently formed, while Apple devices are very popular.This makes detect a vulnerability in an operating system that is necessary for the implementation of the jailbreak process, it is increasingly difficult. A report, free of charge, simply makes no sense.

"White" hackers, having found a vulnerability, communicate about it, Apple releases an update that quickly liquidating the problem. "Blacks" who try to exploit the vulnerability to cyber attacks. But in any case, hackers get for their discovery of serious money. Fan community jailbreak provided. And indeed purely for economic reasons qualified researchers (and detection of vulnerabilities in iOS requires high qualification) is not interested in maintaining tradition.

Adrian Кинглси-hughes concluded: jailbreaking, perhaps, is not yet dead, but their days are numbered.