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Monday 16 February 2015

Beware: malicious packages could potentially brick your iPhone permanently

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Over the weekend, an interesting thread appeared on Reddit involving a new boot color changing mod. That mod, which came from developer @daytonhasty, wasn’t in itself malicious, but if misapplied could render a perfectly good iOS device permanently useless.


Sadly, because directions on installing the mod weren’t followed to a tee, some users were greeted with an expensive paperweight. On the heels of such a revelation, another developer has created a proof of concept tweak that shows how someone with malicious intent could fool jailbreakers into installing a package that renders their device useless.... Read the rest of this post here




"Beware: malicious packages could potentially brick your iPhone permanently" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.

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