Arr matey, there be a danger on the wireless waves.
A tool was recently released for the iPhone that breaks the copy protection on the AppStore apps, enabling redistribution of any application. And it is designed to do this with a single button push. The cracking tool is only available to jailbroken phones, as would any redistributed applications, but it poses a potentially troubling scenario.
The iPhone jailbreaking community has played a large part in the development of the wireless world. Back when the iPhone was released, Apple’s stance was a staunch “no native apps.” They felt it was enough to provide tools for iPhone customized web development.
It was a ragtag grouping of a few very clever individuals who found ways to build, install, and run applications on the iPhone without Apple’s permission. Continue reading “iPhone’s pirate problem”
