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Essay / Jailbreaking an iPod, iPhone or Ipad - 1363
When jailbreaking an iPod, iPhone, iPad, jailbreakers can have more access to an IOS device than someone with an unmodified IOS device. I will explain to you what jailbreak is? When people hear the word jailbreak, they first think of traditional jailbreak, where convicts escape from a high security area like a prison, but this is not the case in the modern world of IOS devices today, also called idevices. Jailbreaking in electronic terms is where people with knowledge of IOS technology use public software provided by hackers to gain access to any compatible Apple device. Jay Freeman explains how jailbreaking works by "deleting old BSD subsystem files", which means that to gain access to jailbreak, it deletes the installed BSD subsystem (UNIX utilities) found on the device to replace it with new BSD files which comes with jailbreak software to install Cydia. (Freeman) You may be wondering who is Jay Freeman (aka Saurik) and what is a Cydia? He is the creator of Cydia, an open source app store allowing users to add modifications such as savegram, feed or plugication on a jailbroken device, making it an alternative to Apple's App Store which is a more closed source as it has no modifications with customization limited by user interactions. By installing Cydia after jailbreak it allows users to search for tweaks by default or by any installed source because every day developers upload new tweaks to sources and if a user has the same source then Cydia will be able to display a news feed. downloaded sources. People who use Instagram do not have the option to save photos found on Instagram, but with the help of Savegram they can, which makes...... middle of paper...... Orbes Magazine, December 27, 2013. Internet. May 12, 2014. Lee, Timothy. “Jailbreaking is now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not for tablets.” Ars Technica. Condé Nast Digital, October 25, 2012. Web. May 12, 2014. .Russell, Kyle. “10 Ways to Jailbreak Your iPhone to Make Life Better.” Business internal. Business Insider, Inc, May 29, 2013. Web. May 12, 2014. .Titlow, Joyn Paul. "12 very good reasons to jailbreak iOS 6 right now."ReadWrite. Ascio Technologies, Inc, January 8, 2013. Web. May 12 2014. .