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Giants in Tech => Apple => Topic started by: javajolt on August 08, 2010, 01:35:01 AM

Title: Apple Stores Stop Pranksters From In-Store Jailbreaking By Blocking Jailbreakme.
Post by: javajolt on August 08, 2010, 01:35:01 AM

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Inundated with a deluge of iPhone 4 jailbreaks at their retail locations, Apple has finally locked down access to JailbreakMe from inside the Apple Store. If you try to go to jailbreakme.com from within an Apple Store now, a DNS forward will just route you back to Apple.com.

Good move, Apple… but what’s taken so long? JailbreakMe.com has been around since 2007, and even back then offered an instant jailbreak to anyone visiting the site in Mobile Safari running iOS 1.1.1. You’d think they would have shut jailbreakme.com access off at their retail stores three years ago.