Craig Phillips CraigsOverItAll

Thoughts on jailbreak detection

The controversy of jailbreak detection has been brought up multiple times in my Twitter feed, so in order to not have to repeat myself, I'll write my thoughts down here.
One day I'll hopefully get round to set up a realistic blog and then I'll move this there, but for now I'll just dump it here on GitHub.

Motivation

Hi. I'm Siguza, and among other things I write exploits for a hobby and help make jailbreaks. One of the reasons I do that is because I believe we should have the ability to run whatever we want on our iDevices, just as we do with laptops and desktop computers. Now, a lot of app developers however seem to despise jailbreaks, and try to make their apps refuse service on jailbroken devices. I think that firstly sucks big time, and secondly always misses the point. From what I gathered, the two arguments for using jailbreak detection seem to be:

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