Apple cripples iBooks for jailbreakers

[4me2]

Apple cripples iBooks for jailbreakers

No e-books for you!





Apple has opened a new chapter in its campaign against hackers with a feature that prevents jailbroken iDevices from accessing iBooks.
According to the Social Apples blog, iPhones and iPads running the latest iOS firmware contain a “jailbreak check” that automatically detects when the devices have been unlocked using the greenpois0n jailbreak kit. Jailbroken devices that attempt to load content using the iBooks application – even legally acquired e-books – display an error message that reads: “There is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone. Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks.”


“Comex,” a hacker with the iPhone Dev Team, said in a Twitter post that “iBooks drops an improperly signed binary, tries to execute it, and if it works concludes that the device is jailbroken and refuses to open the book.”
Apple finds itself in the same predicament as Sony, maker of the PlayStation 3 game console. Both companies want to control what software customers can run on their consoles to boost sales of authorized titles and prevent potential piracy. Unlike Sony, which hauled more than 100 jailbreakers into federal court, Apple is largely barred from taking legal action, thanks to a move last year by the US Copyright Office exempting jailbreaking from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The report comes on the heels of a recent announcement that greenpois0n is now able to apply an untethered jailbreak to second-generation AppleTVs. Untethered jailbreaks are the preferred method of unshackling iDevices since the change persists even after they are rebooted. It's still not clear exactly what can be done with a jailbroken AppleTV. One option is to run NitoTV, a user interface that loads playlists and displays weather forecasts. It's automatically installed when greenpois0n is run.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02...eak_thwarting/

[blaggard]

They can suck my cock, I prefer Kobo anyway.
I just managed to open 3 books with no problem.

[stu99]

Now fixed -

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/3314...hats-in-a-name

PwnageTool also includes two very recent improvements to the 4.2.1 JB: iBooks was just fixed by @comex and @pushfix last night so that it works as intended on DRMed books, and the wifi problem on AppleTV 2G was fixed by @nitotv, @DHowett, and @saurik. Both of these fixes will also be available in upcoming Cydia package updates, so if you’re already jailbroken you can wait for those updates rather than restore and jailbreak again

[DJ OD]

Seems to me that the speed in which these things are getting fixed by the hackers, implies the hackers are actually more clued up on the iDevices than Apple are.

Oh dear


DJ OD

[Fear345]

I thought this was fixed before this or the source where even posted.

[kracken]

I thought this was fixed before this or the source where even posted.

It was

[supraman54]

They can suck my cock, I prefer Kobo anyway.
I just managed to open 3 books with no problem.

They can suck mine after that bruv... I find I can open and read pdfs but not the regular books.. I use kindle mostly so I don't give a flying F**k!..
Odd how you can open books still...

[blaggard]

From the posts it looks like it was fixed before I did mine, I have a few books in iBooks but really prefer Kobo and my PRS-505, if that dies it will be Kindle O'Clock!

[ashtech]

Can you you use the fix without rejailbreaking and restoring?