The Angry Drunk

It looks like the fuck­ing lack-wits at Lifehacker are still attempt­ing, and mis­er­ably fail­ing, to report on tech­nol­ogy. Case in point: the exe­crable piece of crap that Kevin Purdy shat forth today under the head­line “Latest iPhones Block Jailbreaking.”

Before I address the arti­cle itself I want to make some­thing clear. All of the cur­rent processes used to “jail­break” iPhones (that I know of, cor­rect me if I’m wrong) rely on oper­at­ing sys­tem exploits to do their thing. That’s right kid­dos, exploits as in “the shit that the evil crack­ers use to “pwn” your systems.

So, what heinous crime is Apple has Apple com­mit­ted this time? From the Lifehacker story:

The Dev-Team and other jail­break mak­ers have been using an exploit known as 24kpwn to break into the iPhone and obtain deeper access to install new app mar­kets and unlock cer­tain fea­tures. A new boot­ing firmware update, iBoot-359.3.2, has been shipped on 3GS mod­els man­u­fac­tured since last week, how­ever, and a Dev-Team mem­ber tells the Boy Genius Report that jail­break­ing won’t be pos­si­ble on the newer units, at least until another exploit is found.

OMFGWTFBBQ!!! Apple patched a known exploit in the OS, why those fuck­ing ass­holes!! How dare

Continue read­ing Lifehacker, Emphasis on the ‘Hack’