Cydia, the world's largest unofficial iOS platform application, will completely stop the opportunity to buy applications. The decision comes from discovering a platform vulnerability through which users who modified the application could buy software using the account of another user who was online at that time. In fact, Jay "Saurik" Freeman, Cydia's creator, does not even recommend "unlocking" the iPhone, because of the risks he is facing.
For a long time, at the beginning of iOS, Cydia was something absolutely necessary for users who wanted new features that Apple did not implement, or for those who wanted to personalize their phone interface. Over time, however, Apple has integrated most important features such as copy / paste, multitasking, quick access to settings, and a dedicated notification center. In addition to various apps that can not be launched on AppStore because it violates Apple's guidelines and interface customization, there's no reason to jailbreak a phone or tablet with iOS.
According to Jay Freeman, who at this point supports the Cjdia platform of his money, since the revenue from the applications is almost non-existent, he even considered the closure of the platform:
The truth is that I wanted to close Cydia before the end of the year and I was thinking of accelerating these plans after the vulnerabilities were discovered. This service is expensive for me, and maintaining it is no longer a priority for me. Cydia has been a critical part of a "healthy" ecosystem, and for a while it helped finance me and other team members, but this was unhealthy for me mentally. Also, the platform has made many people hate me because of the lack of understanding of how profit works in relation to the proceeds. "
For now, only the purchase option disappears, and those who have purchased content through Cydia will still have access to it later if it needs to be downloaded again. Also, free content is still available.
Considering this decision and the fact that the iOS platform is now much better secured, a hack that may occur several months after the official release, it is quite possible that jailbreaking for Apple devices will completely disappear.
According to Apple's anti-jailbreaking chief, Ivan Kristic, if there was a need to discover a single vulnerability in the system to break the security system, there are now between five and ten vulnerabilities that can be used together. At the same time, the hacker rewards system seems to be more profitable for those who discover these bugs than to offer them for free to the community for the development of jailbreak solutions