Topic > Jailbreaking an iPod, iPhone or Ipad - 1363

By jailbreaking an iPod, iPhone, iPad, jailbreakers may have more access to an IOS device than a person who owns an unmodified IOS device. Shall I explain to you what jailbreak is? When people hear the word jailbreak they will first think of traditional jailbreak which is where inmates escape from a heavy security area like a prison but this is not the case in today's modern world of IOS devices also known as idevice. Jailbreaking in electronic terms is where people with knowledge of IOS technology use public software provided by white hat hackers to gain access to any compatible device from Apple. Jay Freeman explains how jailbreaking works by "removing older BSD subsystem files", which means that to gain access to the jailbreak, he removes the installed BSD subsystem (UNIX utilities) found on the ide device to replace them with new files BSD which came packaged with a jailbreak software to install Cydia. (Freeman) You may be wondering, who is Jay Freeman (aka Saurik) and what is Cydia? It is the creator of Cydia, an open source app store that gives users access to add tweaks like savegram, f.lux or plugication on a jailbroken ide device which makes it an alternative to Apple's App Store which is more closed source as it features no changes with limited customization through user interactions. Having Cydia installed after a jailbreak allows users to search for tweaks via default sources or any installed source because every day developers upload new tweaks to the sources and if a user has the same source, Cydia will be able to show a feed of new uploaded sources. People who use Instagram do not have the ability to save images found on Instagram, but with the help of Savegram they can do so, which makes...... middle of the paper ......orbes magazine, December 27 2013. Network. May 12, 2014. .Lee, Timothy. “Jailbreaking is now legal under the DMCA for smartphones, but not for tablets.” Ars Tecnica. Conde Nast Digital, October 25, 2012. Web. May 12, 2014. .Russell, Kyle. “10 Ways Jailbreaking Your iPhone Will Make Your Life Better.” Company interior. Business Insider, Inc, May 29, 2013. Web. May 12, 2014. .Titlow, Joyn Paul. "12 great reasons to jailbreak iOS 6 now."ReadWrite. Ascio Technologies, Inc, January 8, 2013. Web. May 12 2014. .