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::What I meant by this sentence is that nobody has deployed this method maliciously/intentionally in a package on any repository that I've heard of - they have all so far been clearly marked as dangerous "proof of concept" packages/instructions, not meant to trick you. In other words, it's not "in the wild" as a malicious tweak that people might randomly run into right now. I'd welcome revising this sentence with alternate phrasing that makes this more clear. [[User:Britta|Britta]] ([[User talk:Britta|talk]]) 05:07, 20 February 2015 (UTC) |
::What I meant by this sentence is that nobody has deployed this method maliciously/intentionally in a package on any repository that I've heard of - they have all so far been clearly marked as dangerous "proof of concept" packages/instructions, not meant to trick you. In other words, it's not "in the wild" as a malicious tweak that people might randomly run into right now. I'd welcome revising this sentence with alternate phrasing that makes this more clear. [[User:Britta|Britta]] ([[User talk:Britta|talk]]) 05:07, 20 February 2015 (UTC) |
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| + | Maybe we could advise people to delete/rename nvram binary (e.g. mv /usr/sbin/nvram /usr/sbin/nvram.disabled) so that potentially malicious tweaks can't use it (it's easy to bypass by supplying another copy of nvram with the tweak though).--[[User:Danzatt|Danzatt]] ([[User talk:Danzatt|talk]]) 08:19, 21 February 2015 (UTC) |
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Difficulty of bricking an iOS device
- "(unless very specifically designed to do so by a malicious person, which has not been seen "in the wild")" --- Wasn't this seen here recently with the nvram hack that was discovered here?? Given it hasn't been used in an actual tweak or a package yet... MWoolweaver (talk) 16:28, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
- What I meant by this sentence is that nobody has deployed this method maliciously/intentionally in a package on any repository that I've heard of - they have all so far been clearly marked as dangerous "proof of concept" packages/instructions, not meant to trick you. In other words, it's not "in the wild" as a malicious tweak that people might randomly run into right now. I'd welcome revising this sentence with alternate phrasing that makes this more clear. Britta (talk) 05:07, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Maybe we could advise people to delete/rename nvram binary (e.g. mv /usr/sbin/nvram /usr/sbin/nvram.disabled) so that potentially malicious tweaks can't use it (it's easy to bypass by supplying another copy of nvram with the tweak though).--Danzatt (talk) 08:19, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
