Apple mysteriously kills jailbreak detection API while hacker boosts iOS security, irony restored

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2dFoCpCMHfvQr-9IksoD93x23VmSBk7Y8UReW9J9cXlj8048luskK9HcJQPiUjxFe8MetvJG9sVl7JU5xn9eSWZ-oA6q_63ae94QdIv3QAhHsuee5-hnLaiObc0oqp7DljF-ab7HzOuA/s1600/iphonecydia10102010-1-1286667833.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2dFoCpCMHfvQr-9IksoD93x23VmSBk7Y8UReW9J9cXlj8048luskK9HcJQPiUjxFe8MetvJG9sVl7JU5xn9eSWZ-oA6q_63ae94QdIv3QAhHsuee5-hnLaiObc0oqp7DljF-ab7HzOuA/s320/iphonecydia10102010-1-1286667833.jpg" width="320"></a></div><br> <iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=latesttecompu-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B003H0WQHU&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>It's no secret that Apple's been keen to monitor the lot of naughty jailbreakers, but it turns out the company has recently shelved iOS 4.0's jailbreak detection API with no explanation given. While this has little effect on the average user, Network World explains that this is bad news for enterprise IT and MDM (mobile device management) vendors, who will now have one fewer channel for checking whether a user's iOS device has been jailbroken and thus become vulnerable to attacks. That said, apparently this isn't a huge loss for the MDM vendors, anyway; but the real question is why drop the API now? Could its presence alone be a threat? We'll probably never know.<br> <br>

Apple mysteriously kills jailbreak detection API while hacker boosts iOS security, irony restored

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