Over the years, jailbreaking has changed: the methods, the people, and the benefits. In this talk, Jay Freeman, better known in the jailbreaking community as "saurik", will talk about current challenges to the movement: legal, political, and technical.
This talk is on the Electronic Fronteir Foundation track of Dragon*Con 2016, and is located in Hilton 208-209. As such, it is targetted at a high-level, so don't worry if you aren't highly technical: this is a talk for users to... learn more about jailbreaking.
(Jay Freeman will also be on the FBI vs. Apple vs. Grey Hats & the Future of Encryption panel on Saturday at 4:00pm in Marriott A601-A602 as well as Hacking 201, an "epic" multi-hour long nighttime panel, Sunday, 10:00pm, Hilton Crystal Ballroom.)
(Not in Atlanta? Not a problem! This talk will be recorded, both by the EFF track staff as well as by saurik himself. Mark yourself as "Interested" in this event, and you should get a notification from Facebook when someone has a link to an edited video.)
You can use TaiG to jailbreak iOS 8.4, 8.3, 8.2, and 8.1.2 untethered on all iOS devices. TaiG is only available for Windows, although Mac users can use it with a Windows virtual machine.
Cydia Installer and Cydia Substrate both work on these iOS versions. You can follow https://twitter.com/TaiG_Jailbreak and https://twitter.com/saurik for news. For help with the jailbreak, please see http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/ or http://www.jailbreakqa.com/
Are you in San Francisco (or want to visit it)? On June 20-21 join saurik and many tweak developers and themers at JailbreakCon in San Francisco, a friendly weekend event for jailbreakers of all kinds. It will include a lot of ways to learn more about jailbreaking, including talks, workshops, and meeting new friends. Tickets are $40 for adults and $15 for people under 18; everyone can come! Feel free to ask questions about it here.
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Today we released an updated version of Cydia that is easier and faster to use, with new features, a better-organized user interface, bug fixes, an iOS 7 styled icon, translations for additional languages, and more. We hope you find it useful: open up Cydia, let it refresh data, install the updates, and let us know what you think.
Here is an overview of the changes! (For a simple list of changes with more screenshots, see http://cydia.saurik.com/info/cydia/1.1.10/)
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Hi California and Bay Area jailbreakers! On April 12-13, join saurik, pod2g, and many tweak developers and theme artists at JailbreakCon in South San Francisco, the jailbreaking community conference. There will be talks, workshops, meeting other jailbreakers, and a lot of ways to learn new things about jailbreaking. Tickets are $30 for adults and $10 for people under 18; everyone is welcome.
WinterBoard and Cydget are both updated for iOS 7 on all devices. WinterBoard is the iOS theming tool that many jailbreakers are familiar with, and Cydget lets you make simple or complex LockScreen plugins.
There are also some themes already updated for iOS 7 - what's your favorite theme? It could be fun to make a list of recommendations here. (Or see http://www.reddit.com/r/iOSthemes for more discussion.)
You can use evasi0n7 to jailbreak iOS 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, and 7.0.4 untethered on all iPhones, iPads, iPad minis, and iPod touches.
Cydia Installer and Cydia Substrate (Mobile Substrate) have been updated for iOS 7. Many extensions haven't been updated, so please be patient with developers as they work on updates. Support: http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/ and http://www.jailbreakqa.com/ios7
You can now use evasi0n to jailbreak iOS 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, and 6.1 untethered on all iPhones, iPads, iPad minis, and iPod touches. Yay!
Cydia is under extremely heavy traffic due to this jailbreak though, so you're likely to get error messages while using Cydia today (despite our best efforts). Please consider waiting until a less busy time later (such as tomorrow) to install packages.
You can now use Absinthe 2.0 to jailbreak your device untethered on iOS 5.1.1 (including iPad 3rd generation, iPad 2, iPad 1st generation, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch 3rd and 4th generations).
If your device currently has a tethered jailbreak on iOS 5.1.1: open Cydia, wait for Cydia to refresh and reload data, and then install the package "Rocky Racoon 5.1.1 Untether".
The US Copyright Office has finished posting all of our 2012 DMCA exemption comments! I'm #14. Apple didn't comment. ;P http://t.co/4Lom1gHf
We hope everyone tries out this service, and we'd love to hear what people think about their experience! Put simply: visual voicemail for any US carrier (T-Mobile friendly) with more fun features than either AT&T or Google Voice, integrated directly into the Phone app. -J
Last week Robert Scoble did a short, impromptu interview with us at a conference. Watch Jay demo a few of the Cydia packages that extend and customize his iPhone, answer questions about jailbreaking, and explain some of what we're working on — including better ways of finding cool and useful packages to install. You can also meet me, Britta, who recently started working on making Cydia easier to use and explore!
Yesterday(-ish) I said I'd explain /why/ I was at Make It Work's offices a few days ago; so, here goes. ;P
If you know anything much at all about conferences, you've probably heard of TED: considered by many the conference to end all conferences, you have to apply to even attend TED, with speakers being world renowned figures in their fields. If you /haven't/ heard of TED, all the talks get carefully recorded, edited, and put on their website throughout the year, so I highly ...recommend heading over there and watching some.
(Unfortunately, by the time I went to apply to attend TED 2011 it had already sold out: I figured it wouldn't hurt to wait that extra two weeks until the iPad jailbreak environment was stable, but boy was I wrong. Next year I'm going to be much more careful about signing up as soon as possible. The idea of a conference that sells out almost a year in advance is mind boggling.)
Even if you've heard of TED, however, you probably still haven't heard of TEDx, the brand under which TED sponsors region-oriented franchised instantiations of TED. Rather than being an international conference, designed to cater to everyone (and trying to select speakers from a worldwide pool), TEDx events specialize in highlighting people from a single location, whether that be TelAviv, Belgrade, Boston, or (much to my surprise) even my current home of Santa Barbara, CA.
Now, in a way, I /shouldn't/ be surprised: a lot of awesome people are in Santa Barbara, which makes a lot of sense when you stop thinking of it as a city and start concentrating on it as a giant resort; one so large it spawned a government. (I've decided trying to include a list of such people here seemed tacky, so I won't bother.) I never, however, imagined that someone at TED would feel the same way, as even residents of the city often don't know who all lives here.
Luckily, however, they didn't have to: cities are pitched and lobbied by residents, and Make It Work founder Eric Greenspan (along with Mark Sylvester, Kymberlee Weil, and probably someone else I don't actually know is involved) managed to make it all happen (possibly by exclusively using our tourism name, the American Riviera®). His current job is working with his sponsors and his TED oversight to line up speakers for the event. Now, I don't know who all is speaking, but I /do/ know (after a meeting at Eric's office a few days ago) that I'm one of them!
So, pretty much no one reading this can actually /go/ to the conference to see me (you have to live in Santa Barbara, only a small number of people can attend at all, and you have to apply through a screening process to be selected; although, to be quite honest, I'm not certain either TED or TEDx looks at those applications closely, or even at all), but the talks should end up online on the TEDxAmericanRiviera website at some point soon after the event.
I don't know, I'm still excited, and maybe I'll get to speak at the real TED some day. ;P
-J
So, yesterday, while having a meeting at the MakeItWork offices (more details on why tomorrow ;P), I got roped into doing a little demo of Cydia running on my iPhone 4. The jailbreak isn't ready (there's no tool for it yet, and the result doesn't entirely work), but trust me: it exists, and when it is done and the kinks are worked out, it is going to be /awesome/.
(Please note that while I am involved in the process of jailbreaking, and while Cydia is an integral component, I... do not develop the jailbreak tools themselves, such as PwnageTool or redsn0w. This new iPhone 4 jailbreak work is being done by comex, the same guy who brought us Spirit, along with help from the usual suspects, such as planetbeing and MuscleNerd.)
Users can also hear a short (10-15 minute) interview with me on the MakeItWork radio program tomorrow (Saturday, July 24, 2010), at 3PM on KSFO 560 (San Francisco) or at 1PM on KNX 1070 Newsradio (Los Angeles). (This one was kind of funny: I started telling the story of geohot unlocking the iPhone, but I failed to answer their question about the dawn of jailbreaking before they moved on to the next question. ;P)
Cydia is with John Zamata.
I just released a new build of WinterBoard that is at least reasonable on the iPad. Things are going quite well, as can be seen in this screenshot of KillSignSuperBlack. Note that this theme actually has slightly smaller icons that normal icons on purpose: those icons are not as small as iPhone icons, and please don't believe that the icons are't being scaled correctly. ;P
In principal, WinterBoard is extremely resliant to firmware changes: it is an engine for replacing files.... In practice, rather than using the WinterBoard-supported mechanisms (Bundles/ and Folders/, as documented in the WinterBoard manual), most themes are designed for SummerBoard (the program WinterBoard replaced, which used Icons/ and had magic support for things like Dock.png).
Most of the time, therefore, getting WinterBoard working on a new platform then goes to two places. The first is getting the settings panels running on the new system. Thanks continues to go out to Dustin Howett (@DHowett), the new maintainer of PreferenceLoader, for his heroic efforts to keep these working on the wide range of firmwares that WinterBoard supports.
The second is to figure out some logical way to map SummerBoard themes to the underlying platform. This is really difficult on the iPad, due to how different the graphical layout is: for example, there is now a portrait and a landscape dock, and the dock's dimensions are actually used to determine the layout of the screen, which goes... poorly... if you load many older dock images into them.
So, these mappings on the iPad are pretty much just "best effort", and sometimes don't make much sense. What developers of themes should do going forward is to start writing modern WinterBoard themes. As an example, that would let you theme separately the portrait and landscape docks on the iPad, as well as having backwards compatible support for the multiple kinds of docks on the iPhone and iPod.
Regardless: I hope people have fun using this tool on the iPad, and I'm glad to finally have this thing out the door... this thing is now supporting enough different firmware revisions that testing it is not fun, to say the least. ;P
