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Speaker 1: in Welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Poette

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk today about something that we received tons

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Speaker 1: this through email, through Twitter, through Facebook, through singing telegram. UM,

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Speaker 1: com headquarters. But here's here's just a quick list of

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Speaker 1: about our topic today. They include Daniel, Jack, Jaden, Josh John, Miguel, Trey,

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Speaker 1: Mark Nicholas, and Tom. That's just a selection. And we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk today about jail breaking. Yes, And I

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Speaker 1: don't believe that any of the people that you've listed. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we're actually writing us from jail, so we must not

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Speaker 1: about specifically. Really, jailbreaking can can be a fairly general term,

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Speaker 1: Apple products, and jailbreaking is all about how uh people

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Speaker 1: who buy Apple products. You know, Apple has a very

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Speaker 1: products that quote unquote just work well. In order to

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Speaker 1: why if you want to buy something for your iPhone,

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Speaker 1: it also helps them keep out things like malware, right

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Speaker 1: doing or i should say, the device into doing something

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Speaker 1: that it normally wouldn't do through a security vulnerability. And

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Speaker 1: that's why you're you're able to do it, and you

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Speaker 1: recording of this podcast. But I'm sure it won't be

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Speaker 1: long before apples fixed. Well, I mean, it's a security flaw.

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Speaker 1: It should be patched regardless, but but yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's probably once they patch that up, they'll have to

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Speaker 1: find a different way to do it. Yeah. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: that case they're aware. In that case, it may go

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Speaker 1: back to the point where the only real way to

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Speaker 1: do it is to to download the application to a

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Speaker 1: computer first. Um, and that and that like again, like again,

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Speaker 1: I say, uh, um, jailbreak me is not not up

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Speaker 1: to anything no good, So don't don't worry about them.

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Speaker 1: Other people, however, could be could be yeah, so and

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Speaker 1: and just for you to get an idea of what

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff could be no good. Uh, it's not

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Speaker 1: just that they could maybe screw up your phone. It's

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Speaker 1: that they could perhaps mine data from you over your phone.

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Speaker 1: So not just your information, but any information that might

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Speaker 1: be transferred over that device through various means, be at email,

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Speaker 1: instant messenger, web browsing. Uh. You know, just think about that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, think about anything that would that you would

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Speaker 1: transfer over your phone could theoretically be intercepted with the

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Speaker 1: proper uh malware app out there. Um So, once you,

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Speaker 1: once you have jail broken your phone, you're gonna need

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Speaker 1: a directory for those apps that we've been talking about,

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Speaker 1: these these independent apps. UM. I think one of the

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Speaker 1: most popular ones is Sidia. Just see why d I ah,

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Speaker 1: it seems to be the one that I think most

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Speaker 1: people prefer. Now. I don't own an iPhone, so I

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Speaker 1: have no need for this jail breaking business. Um So

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you about Sidia from a personal standpoint,

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Speaker 1: but that does seem to be the one that I

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Speaker 1: think is favored by most of the writers I read

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Speaker 1: from what I from what I've seen there, it's probably

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Speaker 1: the most popular. And again it doesn't it's sort of

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Speaker 1: like an alternative app store, but it doesn't prevent you

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Speaker 1: from using the actual Apple App Store. Right. So I

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Speaker 1: did mention the possibility of breaking, and that it's not

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Speaker 1: that hard to fix most of the time. Here's so

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Speaker 1: let's say your let's say you've jail broken your phone

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Speaker 1: and it's frozen, it's become unresponsive. You don't want to

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Speaker 1: take it into the Apple Store because you've already violated

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Speaker 1: your warranty. Yeah, one thing that you might try, and

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Speaker 1: this will work in most cases, is again hold down

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Speaker 1: that home button. And then once you've held it down

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Speaker 1: and it's uh, you know, the little screen comes up.

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Speaker 1: You you connected to the dock, connected to your computer,

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Speaker 1: and what will have is iTunes will see the phone

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Speaker 1: and they'll see it'll see it that it's in recovery mode,

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Speaker 1: and it will then load the latest version of whatever

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Speaker 1: the firmware is for that phone or other device, iPad

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Speaker 1: or iPod and then that will reset it. You'll you'll

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Speaker 1: lose some data, it won't be jailbroken anymore. Um, but

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Speaker 1: it will work, which is probably more important anything else.

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Speaker 1: I got that, by the way, from Digital Trends. I

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Speaker 1: should say Digital Trends had that specific fix listed. And

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Speaker 1: uh so if you have experienced that problem, that is

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Speaker 1: one potential solution. And the other nice thing about that

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Speaker 1: is that unless um, unless the Apple workers are particularly vigilant, uh,

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Speaker 1: if you have cleared that, if you've got into recovery

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Speaker 1: mode that way and reset the firmware, uh, there's a

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Speaker 1: good chance they won't know that you've violated your warranty.

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Speaker 1: Not that I writ not that I'm condoning that, but

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Speaker 1: that there's a there's a pretty good chance no one

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Speaker 1: would ever know that you had jail broken your phone

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Speaker 1: in the first place. So if if you have come

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Speaker 1: to the conclusion after that rains that maybe it wasn't

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Speaker 1: worth it, Like maybe the apps you saw weren't really

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Speaker 1: your thing in the first place. Um. You know, most

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Speaker 1: users I think would be satisfied with what's in the

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Speaker 1: iTunes store. It's really kind of power users and hackers,

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Speaker 1: those type of people who really want to have more

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Speaker 1: freedom with their devices, who are more interested in h

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Speaker 1: in jailbreaking. Um, So if you do decide that's not

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Speaker 1: worth it, you can recover your phone and there's there's

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Speaker 1: a good chance that it's going to be safe enough

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Speaker 1: so that you know, nobody's the wiser. Um. Not guaranteed though,

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Speaker 1: So don't don't be standing at the Genius bar yelling.

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Speaker 1: But Jonathan Strickland said that you wouldn't even notice because

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Speaker 1: you're stupid, because, uh, that's not cool, dude. Don't bring

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Speaker 1: me into it, man, don't I don't even own an iPhone,

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Speaker 1: doesn't know. I have Android, which has a totally different

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Speaker 1: set of problems but doesn't need to be jailbroken. Now,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't need to be jail broke in, but it

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Speaker 1: has its own issues. Uh. No, no system out there

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Speaker 1: is perfectly. You just have to decide which one is

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Speaker 1: best for you exactly. Uh So, anyway, that's our jailbreaking podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure some of you are out there kind of

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Speaker 1: wondering why we didn't talk specifically about the steps you

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Speaker 1: need to take to jail break your phone. And that's

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Speaker 1: again because each one is different, and in most cases

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Speaker 1: there's someone out there who has done all the work

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Speaker 1: for you. You just have to find the right the

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Speaker 1: right solution for the particular OS you are running. Um

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Speaker 1: and most of you are probably running the latest O

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Speaker 1: S anyway, so that's not that hard unless you're running

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Speaker 1: an old device that can't run the latest OS. Case

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Speaker 1: you're probably running the latest one that is possible on

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Speaker 1: that device. Yeah what what I put touch? Do you have?

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Speaker 1: That would be the first generation? Yeah? Okay, so there's

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Speaker 1: no I OS four? Does that? Things? Playing music? Anyway?

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