TechSliver: Hackers have been playing with iPhone 4S and iOS 5 for a while now and they are trying to jailbreak it. We have i0n1c claiming somebody from Chronic Dev Team has the iOS 5 untethered jailbreak and now we have MuscleNerd with some success of iPhone 4S Jailbreak. This sure is a great news for all iPhone 4S users and for those on iOS 5.
Apple ultimately decided to resolve these six-year-old court proceedings and agreed to pay $15 to each impacted iPhone 4s holder.
The Verge: All devices from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone X are impacted.
Fair play to them. On the ethical hacker side of things I would use the hack as leverage against Apple to continue to support their equipment. As they just dropped support for their iPad mini2’s etc. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with them, they work perfectly fine but are now blocked from receiving security updates etc. So the consumer is forced to purchase a new product that does the exact same thing.
Apple is on the receiving end of a class-action lawsuit from disgruntled iPhone 4s owners. The suit, filed by Chaim Lerman and more than 100 others, alleges Apple's iOS 9 update severely degraded the smartphone's performance both in terms of third-party apps and core functionality.
