Comments on: Palm webOS 1.0.4 Released for Pre http://www.phonenews.com/palm-webos-1.0.4-released-for-pre-8314/ Providing complete coverage of the wireless industry, cell phone news, and future 4G technologies. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:01:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Christopher Price http://www.phonenews.com/palm-webos-1.0.4-released-for-pre-8314/comment-page-1/#comment-28948 Christopher Price Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:16:54 +0000 http://www.phonenews.com/?p=8314#comment-28948 Note, I didn't say how long you had to be tethered. Like any device, once you have root-level SSH, you can do pretty much whatever you want. Imagine though for a second if a site like jailbreak.me existed today... you would see plenty of malicious software out there, now that people have an understanding of OTA payloads of mobile device exploits. A well-crafted OTA-only exploit could brick a Pre, and that's no joke. App Catalog is not going to really affect the interests of the homebrew community... as legal as emulators, tethering, and videocasting are... I doubt Palm is going to support listing them in the App Catalog, if only because Sprint will be there to demand they stop. I wouldn't be surprised if a redsn0w-like app won't be made in the future, bringing over Cydia's portable apt installation (or an incredibly new one). Note, I didn’t say how long you had to be tethered. Like any device, once you have root-level SSH, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

Imagine though for a second if a site like jailbreak.me existed today… you would see plenty of malicious software out there, now that people have an understanding of OTA payloads of mobile device exploits. A well-crafted OTA-only exploit could brick a Pre, and that’s no joke.

App Catalog is not going to really affect the interests of the homebrew community… as legal as emulators, tethering, and videocasting are… I doubt Palm is going to support listing them in the App Catalog, if only because Sprint will be there to demand they stop.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a redsn0w-like app won’t be made in the future, bringing over Cydia’s portable apt installation (or an incredibly new one).

]]> By: Someone http://www.phonenews.com/palm-webos-1.0.4-released-for-pre-8314/comment-page-1/#comment-28941 Someone Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:19:15 +0000 http://www.phonenews.com/?p=8314#comment-28941 Actually you don't have to be tethered to a computer for most of the jailbreaking. You only need to be tethered for a VERY short period. At this point in time I can SSH into my Pre from anywhere I have access to a telnet client, all I need to know is my Pre's IP address. Of course, this loophole was MUCH easier for those that don't know what "rooting" is. Hopefully Palm will give us a second option or get the App Catalog out of beta very soon! Actually you don’t have to be tethered to a computer for most of the jailbreaking. You only need to be tethered for a VERY short period. At this point in time I can SSH into my Pre from anywhere I have access to a telnet client, all I need to know is my Pre’s IP address.

Of course, this loophole was MUCH easier for those that don’t know what “rooting” is. Hopefully Palm will give us a second option or get the App Catalog out of beta very soon!

]]> By: Christopher Price http://www.phonenews.com/palm-webos-1.0.4-released-for-pre-8314/comment-page-1/#comment-28937 Christopher Price Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:45:30 +0000 http://www.phonenews.com/?p=8314#comment-28937 Jay, the update does close the email-yourself-homebrew loophole, but that was because anyone could email a Pre owner a malicious file... resulting in being a tap away from bricking a Pre (or worse). The primary jailbreak points are still left open, of course, you have to be tethered to a computer to access them... but they're still there. All Palm did was close the unsafe exploits. Jay, the update does close the email-yourself-homebrew loophole, but that was because anyone could email a Pre owner a malicious file… resulting in being a tap away from bricking a Pre (or worse).

The primary jailbreak points are still left open, of course, you have to be tethered to a computer to access them… but they’re still there. All Palm did was close the unsafe exploits.

]]> By: jay http://www.phonenews.com/palm-webos-1.0.4-released-for-pre-8314/comment-page-1/#comment-28936 jay Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:32:23 +0000 http://www.phonenews.com/?p=8314#comment-28936 Engadget reports that this closes some loopholes that allowed homebrew to be installed. see: http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/palm-pre-gets-upgraded-to-1-0-4/ Engadget reports that this closes some loopholes that allowed homebrew to be installed.

see: http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/palm-pre-gets-upgraded-to-1-0-4/

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