What will happen with the iOS 6 jailbreak?

Historical text from HellasProject (2009–2014). It is not current advice or a present-day service.

The situation with the iOS 6 jailbreak is still unknown. That phenomenon exists because there are specific and very few people who work on it, and the very well-known developers who had saved us on previous versions started working on other projects, and some even changed “sport”, or others have been absorbed into the “big” companies.

And that is relatively expected, and they really seem to follow a pattern, with hackers such as GeoHot and Comex, who as soon as they released a few jailbreaks (some userland, some kernel exploits), continued with their lives. The same happened recently with developers like Pod2G; the biggest problem of all, though, is not those who “left” but those who have not taken a step forward to fill the gap, their place in the jailbreak scene.

As has been said quite often, a big role is that if developers have not entered the whole iOS exploitation, kernels etc. and have been watching for a while if not from the start, you do not wake up one day and produce a kernel exploit. And those who have the right knowledge and experience on iOS exploits either work at large companies or sell the exploits on the “black market” (a topic I want to develop at some point, to clear the air around talk of the style “I am safe with the iPhone”, heh yes). Unfortunately the circle of people who want to offer their help to the jailbreak community, with tools without a fee (PwnageTool, redsn0w, Greenpois0n, Absinthe, etc.), is now very narrow. Fortunately they exist, but until when, they too?

My personal view is that jailbreak as a concept will not exist for much longer. There are signs, you see them too, that indicate it. First Apple making the jailbreak process more and more annoying with each firmware, second people who do not deal enough with jailbreak, and third Apple adding more and more functions that started and were tested on the sure public of the jailbreak scene. Let me mention a few, such as the most basic, Notification Center; we had it in some form from Firmware 3.2.x. Multitasking, there is Backgrounder from the era of firmware 1.1.3!!! Suddenly we have an App Switcher, and so much more that we have been enjoying for a long time. Of course there are also things I do not see reaching Apple, such as emulators and themes; especially with the latter Apple is vertical and irrevocable, it wants “everything” to look the same, our devices have graduated military school and always wear their dress uniform. What Apple generally wants and has managed is to have reduced how many Cydia tweaks are worth going through the process of jailbreaking.

The hacker i0n1c, who openly says he does not make jailbreaks for free and for the community but puts them up for money, has tweeted that Apple has now made jailbreak even harder. According to him, Apple added protection mechanisms in the 6.1 firmware that would probably ship in January.

He himself says Apple has “raised” the game as far as the “security” area of iOS. With the new iOS 6 release we saw KASLR replace ASLR and various firmware protection improvements that make jailbreak developers’ work even harder. This whole story generally does not smell very OK and it is recommended by the same people that when 6.1 ships you should NOT update, if you at least want to try, if you are not jailbroken, even a little what jailbreak is, the tweaks etc. Let me remind you jailbreak does not void your warranty and with simple means, a restore, you put it back where you had it!

Note that although I am in favour of jailbreak, of hacks’n’tweaks, of themes and others, I am against piracy and anything related to it. You can see here why and what exactly I suffered as a developer from piracy, since that is not the current topic, only jailbreak.

What do you think? Do you say jailbreak will cease to exist in the near future?
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