iPhone Dev Team Blog

I don't know a single person that wants to look under their hood any more (though living in greater NYC area, I realize this is not representative of most communities). When I was in high school (mid 80s), everyone did. But even the grease monkeys aren't interested any more. It's kind of like late 80's ricers versus today's German cars. I myself auto-crossed a Honda CRXsi. Today I'm just as into performance, but have other things to do with my time. I can honestly say I have not ever seen the engine of my car which Car & Driver recently named the Best Handling Car in America. It's a Boxster, and ... there is no hood to open. I'm okay with that. That "sizable community" is dwindling fast, as computing becomes an appliance technology. Your opinion is disproportionately represented here because HN is much more like the late night parking lot full of ricers in San Bernardino than it's like an arbitrary quarter mile of LA's I-10 rush hour traffic. // Note: iphone-dev's redsn0w[1] has an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 on everything but the iPhone 4s and iPad 2. And saurik's Cydia[2] is doing just fine, with plenty of souped up suspensions or new stereo systems if you want to get your hands dirty. 1. http://blog.iphone-dev.org/?0b08b320 2. http://cydia.saurik.com/

If you didn't jailbreak beforehand and capture the SHSH blob, no, you can't. So for the vast majority of people who upgraded to iOS 6 there is no going back. http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ That's the cost of being inside a walled garden. You don't even have the freedom to install previous firmwares on your device. But since the browser is part of a firmware upgrade it would be a terrible idea anyway, a new security bug has been found on mobile safari recently, you don't want to stay on older fimrwares if you can help it. Google maps, or a secure browser ? Pick one.

or if you want some more details, in no particular order - http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ http://pod2g-ios.blogspot.com/

From http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/7295551750/jailbreakme-times-3 "Q: Do the holes discovered by @comex put my device at risk? A: Yes. We recommend installing PDF Patcher 2 in Cydia once you’re jailbroken to eliminate this risk (any firmware version)."

I have found the Dev-Team blog to post authoritative information about each iPhone jailbreak. http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

Don't forget and install this on your jailbroken phone just yet-- apparently it updates the 3g baseband, and the 2g tool won't be ready for a while. http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

jailbroken users can install a opt-out pref : http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/164789333/a-pinch-too-much

Hmm...installing OpenSSH but leaving your root password as the default "alpine" is a security problem, downloading copied app files from the web is sketchy, and I also wouldn't trust adding the extra repository to get Installous or installing Installous on my device. Here's a simpler and safer process: 1) On your iPad 2 running iOS 4.3.3, or your iPad 1 running iOS 4.3 through 4.3.3: open up Safari and visit jailbreakme.com for a one-click jailbreak that also installs Cydia. You can learn more about this jailbreak at the iPhone Dev Team blog: http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/7295551750/jailbreakme-times-3 2) Open up Cydia, and on the right side of the Cydia for iPad homepage you'll see a link to FullForce, which is a free "tweak" by a reputable developer (http://twitter.com/rpetrich) who has updated it to enable the Facebook for iPad app. Install FullForce and configure it in your Settings app to apply to the Facebook for iPhone app. (I'm assuming you already have the Facebook app on your iPad. If not, you should get it from the App Store.) That's it!