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Old Dec 25, 2011 | 2:41 am
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Originally Posted by boberonicus
Are all Apple upgrades malicious, or is it just the ones that coincide with random stuff going on in the hacking community? My guess is that Apple product managers are timing their releases to provide new features, fix old bugs, etc. and any jailbreaking plans that they foil are coincidental.
Yes, some are CLEARLY released simply to defeat a jailbreak.

I wouldn't necessarily call it "malicious" though because a jailbreak entails security vulnerability. So Apple releases it as a security patch, with some "bug fixes" or new "features" for show.
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