Evasi0n Jailbreak Installed on 1.7 Million Devices Since Monday ReleaseIn a discussion with Forbes, Cydia appstore administrator Jay Freeman revealed that the evasi0n jailbreak had been installed 800,000 times within six hours of its Monday release. By Tuesday, Cydia had been installed 1.7 million times, and according to a chart tweeted by Freeman, Cydia was receiving 14,000 hits per minute at peak download times. The demand for the jailbreak resulted in site wide traffic problems, causing Freeman's server to go offline several times. To put it in perspective, that's approximately 1,200 Cydia downloads per minute. Evasi0n is the first significant jailbreak since the widely used Redsn0w iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak. Hacking Apple devices is a detailed process, which is why jailbreaks are few and far between. According to David Wang, one of the evad3rs' four developers, the program takes advantage of at least five distinct, new bugs in iOS's code. (For reference, that's one more than Stuxnet, the malware built by the NSA to destroy centrifuges in Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities.)The evasi0n jailbreak is the first untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 5 and for devices running iOS 6.x. Evasi0n is available for OS X, Windows, and Linux on the evasi0n website. Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories • Apple Apparently Moving Ahead with Online Store in Russia • Mophie Announces Juice Pack Helium for iPhone 5 • Apple Product Placement Reaches New Heights in Netflix Show 'House of Cards' • Dell to Return Funds to Shareholders in $24 Billion Deal to Go Private • Logitech Announces Ultrathin Keyboard Cover For iPad Mini • Tweetbot for iOS Updated with Inline Image Support for Flickr and Vine • Vanity URLs for AppStore.com Debut in Super Bowl Commercial • iPad Mini Shipping Estimates Drop to 1-3 Days in U.S. Apple Store
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