Apple: why iPhone jailbreaking should not be allowed [LWN.net]

Apple: why iPhone jailbreaking should not be allowed

Posted Feb 16, 2009 21:00 UTC (Mon) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: Apple: why iPhone jailbreaking should not be allowed by tgall
Parent article: Apple: why iPhone jailbreaking should not be allowed

> Beyond running cracked apps, I don't really see much point of jail breaking an iPhone.

I jailbroke my phone so that I could run a VPN client I wrote[1] on it. I wrote that client for
Mac/Linux, in python. It was nearly trivial to port to a jailbroken iPhone, since it's almost 100% like
"real" OSX. Making it work under Apple's SDK limitations is probably not even possible, but even if it
is, it'd certainly be a lot more work that I see no reason to spend time on. (to start with, I'd have to
rewrite the whole thing in ObjC since Python certainly isn't allowed).

[1] http://fuhm.net/software/f5vpn-login/

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