From the Editor’s Desk: Congratulations jailbreakers! Checkm8 livesFor the jailbreaking community, the recently-released bootrom exploit is gonna be a lot of fun.
You may have heard earlier this week that a new unpatchable exploit was released that works on all iPhones from 4S to X and is unpatchable. What this means to most people is practically nothing. The expolit does not make it possible for someone to remotely hack your iPhone, steal your data, or otherwise hurt you if you personally don't jailbreak your iPhone.
What this means for the jailbreak community at large is that, no matter how many software updates Apple releases with bug patches and vulnerability fixes, iPhones with an A5 through A11 chip can potentially be jailbroken permanently. No more running older operating systems in order to keep a jailbroken phone. No more scrambling to try to find a new software exploit.
Ars Technica interviewed the developer of Checkm8, axi0mX, and has a great deep dive into the process and limitations of the exploit.
Basically, Checkm8 is a bootrom ex...
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From the Editor’s Desk: Congratulations jailbreakers! Checkm8 lives
