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by zapshu 4293 days ago
Although it's pretty cool by itself, they modify and distribute copyrighted IPSWs (iOS firmware), which is basically illegal.
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Do you see Apple doing something about it? Because I don't.
This is reckless.
It's reckless to base a business around it or depend on it for production use, yes. For fun, it's just hacking.
Which is a federal offence where even just issuing a bunch of GETs can get you sentenced to years in jail.
Not that definition of hacking! I mean seriously given the title of this website I didn't expect that.