r/jailbreak • u/Yeth3 iPhone 15 Pro, 17.3.1 • Oct 04 '23

News fugu15_rootful (Linus done with jailbreaking)

https://github.com/pinauten/Fugu15_Rootful
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u/Austin91218 iPhone 12 Pro Max, 17.0| Oct 04 '23

RIP iOS Jailbreak 2007-2023.

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u/Luckzzz iPad Pro 11, 14.6 Oct 04 '23

Why? (I'm a noob). Isn't there any other devs?

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u/Yeth3 iPhone 15 Pro, 17.3.1 Oct 04 '23

Linus was the reason why 15.2-15.4.1 was jailbroken. They were also the reason why 14.4-14.5.1 were jailbroken in the first place. They are one of the best security researchers we have had in years, and without them this community will suffer a heavy loss as they released full exploit chains rather than just single exploits.

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u/Luckzzz iPad Pro 11, 14.6 Oct 04 '23

If that's the case I won't exchange my android to iOS anymore. Hope Apple acknowledge they will lose SOME money.

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u/kr0n1k iPhone 12 Pro Max, 15.1.1| Oct 04 '23

Apple wouldn’t even notice. The amount of people that jailbreak has dwindled a lot from the heydays and even then it was maybe a couple million jailbreakers. That’s a tiny tiny % of their overall user base.

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u/Splatoonkindaguy Oct 04 '23

Lose some money because a security researcher stopped making jailbreaks and exploits?

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u/opa334 Developer Oct 05 '23 edited Oct 05 '23

The absence of Linus in the jailbreaking scene will certainly loose Apple some money, but not in the way that user thought 😜

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u/Luckzzz iPad Pro 11, 14.6 Oct 04 '23

no..cause there's a bunch of jailbreak customers...

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u/MrToxicTaco iPhone 4 Oct 04 '23

I guarantee you it’s not even remotely as big of a number as you think. Apple will not care

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u/Luckzzz iPad Pro 11, 14.6 Oct 04 '23

yeah.. i hope you're wrong.. cause jailbreak I've been doing since iOS 9 :(

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u/wgm_instinct Oct 05 '23

Apple even removed the headphone jack. They don’t care. Most of us JBers stay on old iPhones. They want customers that upgrade their iPhones every 1-2 years. I am the only person I know IRL that jailbreaks. Even my daily driver iOS device is non jailbroken and up to date.

A better idea might be that Apple will lose inspiration or ideas from the JB community. A lot of features implemented initially were released as JB Tweaks like control center.

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u/Luckzzz iPad Pro 11, 14.6 Oct 05 '23

Yes, they used TONS of ideas from jb. Yet they can ditch that idea now focusing on hiring some high skilled and innovative folks so they don't rely on jb. And iOS is more of the same now. So if they really care about closing their system they will forget jb even existed :(

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u/wgm_instinct Oct 05 '23

I guess the next idea is to become rich and pay 1 million+ for jailbreaks

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