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JailbreakMe's Comex goes to work for Apple

by Chris Rawson (Aug 25th, 2011)

Nicholas Allegra, aka Comex, aka the young man behind JailbreakMe.com, has been offered an internship with Apple, according to his recent Twitter update. "It's been really, really fun, but it's also been a while and I've been getting bored. So, the week after next I will be starting an internship ...

Forbes profiles Comex, the hacker behind JailbreakMe

by Steven Sande (Aug 1st, 2011)

The Apple world knows him as Comex, the person who developed JailbreakMe to let iPhone users quickly and easily jailbreak their devices. Now Forbes has outed Comex in a preview of an article that will be published in the magazine later this week. Comex is really Nicholas Allegra, a 19 year old ...

Latest version of iBooks contains anti-jailbreaking measures

by Richard Gaywood (Feb 15th, 2011)

Seems like Apple isn't letting the Library of Congress's declaration that jailbreaking is legal stop it from throwing further obstacles in the way of people trying to open up their iOS hardware. The latest such gimmick is iBooks. Version 1.2.1 of the app, launched last week, refuses to open books ...

Jailbreakme site utilizes PDF exploit in iOS

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Aug 3rd, 2010)

We reported on the return of browser-based jailbreakme.com yesterday. Today IT security guru F-Secure revealed just how the site is able to work. The jailbreak method utilizes a PDF exploit found in the iOS software. Charlie Miller with Independent Security Evaluators, tweeted, " Starting to get ...

Install Flash on a jailbroken iPad, if you really want to

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 8th, 2010)

Well, if the video above doesn't prove to you how compelling Flash on the iPad can be, nothing will. Yes, the inevitable happened and Comex got Flash working on an jailbroken iPad. We all knew this was technically possible, but clearly Apple doesn't feel that Flash's performance on their mobile ...

hacksugar: iPhone 4 jailbreak accomplished but not ready for public release

by Erica Sadun (Jun 28th, 2010)

When we talk about "jailbreaking" the iPhone, that means opening up the underlying file system on the phone for full read/write access; on a vanilla iPhone, only the 'userland' data is accessible to users and apps. The term is derived from Unix jargon, where a "chroot jail" is the limited section of ...