More info on the Jailbreak. Good read:

http://blog.azimuthsecurity.com/2013/02/from-usr-to-svc-dissecting-evasi0n.html 

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Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
Sourcefire


On Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Daniel McDonald wrote:

> On 2/14/13 2:18 AM, "Matus UHLAR - fantomas" <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > 
> > On 13.02.13 14:59, Jim Preston wrote:
> > > Unless I am mistaken, that is the point of this thread. The fact that
> > > if you want non-apple approved applications, you need to jailbreak
> > > the phone and hence should Envais0n be considered malware since it
> > > exploits IOS flaws to allow jailbreaking.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > No, it is not a malware. It is a jailbreak. It does not to any bad (at least
> > from user's point of view, even if Apple is happy it has partial control
> > over devices it sold to customers), it just makes possible installation of
> > any software not approved by apple that does not necessarily have to be a
> > malware.
> > 
> 
> 
> Fine, so it is a PUA - Potentially Unwanted Application. And the clamav
> team could create a new PUA category for it.
> 
> Or the people who want the jailbreak software could list the signature in
> local.ign2 or whatever the ignore file is, and be happy.
> 
> But for the majority of us, It's not just potentially unwanted, it is simply
> unwanted. If I had wanted an open phone, I would have bought an Android.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281
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