Jailbreaking Is Almost Dead 

Almost twelve months have passed since the release of the last jailbreak version for iOS.

Following the release of iOS 10.3 security update, the well-known hacker Luka Todesco, specializing in hacking iOS and repeatedly being the first to demonstrate the security holes, announced the termination of his activities related to jailbreaking.

Last year, Apple tremendously improved its ability to block jailbreak attempts. As early as 2016, the company hired a team of security experts P0sixninja and Chronic who were previously well-known jailbreak developers.

Two leading ex-hackers, together with a group of other jailbreak developers, designed a new platform called Apollo. Developers call it the Next Generation Security Platform.

Instead of working with a next jailbreak project, the best minds of the jailbreak community are working with the same efforts to make the iOS absolutely secure.

Another jailbreak developer Jonathan Zdzyarsky was hired by Apple in March of this year. He took the position of data analysis and security engineer.

The decrease in interest to jailbreaking is partly due to the expansion of iOS capabilities. With the development of the platform, users have fewer reasons to jailbreak their devices.

There are three main reasons of why jailbreaking is dying:

1. Apple has increased security and to jailbreak its devices has become much more difficult.

2. If a hacker finds a vulnerability, he can earn up to 1 million on selling it to Apple.

3. The majority of jailbreak developers found a highly paid work in the field of cyber security.

It turns out to be a deadly spiral: from one hand fewer people are interested in jailbreaking their devices and so less and fewer developers create interesting products. On the other and users have no reason to jailbreak, that is, fewer people are have jailbroken devices and, as a result, fewer developers are interested in it.

Jailbreaking is also dangerous. Only rooted Apple devices can be infected with malware. But you can get malware even on healthy devices. Apps like Mac Ads Cleaner may spoil Apple reputation. Mac Ads Cleaner and its counterparts pretend to be useful software and use tricky tactics to lure money from end users.