The jailbreak iOS 9, one family at a million dollars, which exposes all iPhone

Last September, the company launched Zerodium a lucrative challenge around the new version of the mobile operating system from Apple, iOS 9. A reward of $ 1 million has been promised to the one who will manage to provide proof of a critical flaw in the OS, type 0-day (that is to say, unpublished). This loophole had to be activated remotely, either via a web page or a text message, to give full access to device features, in other words, to allow the Jailbreak.

 

The company announced yesterday that his reward was hit by a team that has managed to unlock the system through a Web page. If this could seem like good news for the safety of users, it is actually quite the opposite. If the company pays so much for this kind of fault, it is not to disclose them and have it corrected. Instead, it sells them to the highest bidder, whether companies or governments, for example, who will find all the utility of such an opening

 

In the case of the iPhone jailbreak, it could allow a government agency, the NSA take random access to the entire contents of a telephone, her messages to calls, not to mention the data stored thereon. If this is not reassuring, it is likely that Apple is already working to find the fault in question to be able to plug in the future and protect its users to outside attack.