Apple disables jailbreak detection API
Every so often the mothership does something to once again pique the ire of the tinfoil hat crowd — Apple wants to take over the world and here’s proof! Being an unreformed Kool-Aid drinker, I’m of the opinion that Steve Jobs already controls the world and these details, come and go as they do, signify nothing.
NetworkWorld writes that Apple has quietly removed or disable a jailbreak detection API introduced with iOS 4.0. Yes, it could come back and, yes, there are third parties that continue to monitor and track jailbroken iPhones.
The new API was part of a bundle of mobile device management (MDM) APIs released in June with iOS 4.0. These APIs were available to third-party MDM applications, such as AirWatch or Sybase’s Afaria. With the new APIs, these servers could access directly a range of features and information in iOS or on the device. But in the recently-released 4.2 version, the API intended for detecting jailbreaks has been either removed or disabled.
“We used it when it was available, but as an adjunct,” says Joe Owen, vice president, engineering, Sybase. “I’m not sure what motivated their removing that … I’ve not had anyone [at enterprise customer sites] talk to me about this API being present or being removed.”
So, does Apple’s pullback of the MDM API, or some undetermined part thereof, signify a victory even though third parties continue to practice this dark art? Honestly, it doesn’t matter because Steve Jobs seeded world water supplies with tin foil penetrating, mind control nanites years ago.
All your base are belong to him…
What’s your take?
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December 12th, 2010
Damnit man, bringing the nostalgia with that picture from the MSX game. Can’t recall the name though..