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The iPhone Dev Team, which is not affiliated with Apple, has released a series of free desktop-based jailbreaking tools. In July 2008 it released a version of PwnageTool to jailbreak the then new iPhone 3G on iPhone OS 2.0 as well as the iPod Touch, [41] [42] newly including Cydia as the primary third-party installer for jailbroken software. [43]
iCloud is the personal cloud service of Apple Inc. Launched on October 12, 2011, iCloud enables users to store and sync data across devices, including Apple Mail, Apple Calendar, Apple Photos, Apple Notes, contacts, settings, backups, and files, to collaborate with other users, and track assets through Find My.
In 2012, Motorola released a limited tool for unlocking bootloaders. [14] They require accepting terms and conditions and creating an account before the bootloader can be unlocked for your Motorola device. [15] A 2012 article by The Verge called the unlockable bootloaders a 'broken promise' and called for a fix. [16]
Apple Account, formerly known as Apple ID, is a user account by Apple for their devices and software. Apple Accounts contain the user's personal data and settings, and when an Apple Account is used to log in to an Apple device, the device will automatically use the data and settings associated with the Apple Account.
The Google Authenticator app for Android was originally open source, but later became proprietary. [11] Google made earlier source for their Authenticator app available on its GitHub repository; the associated development page stated: "This open source project allows you to download the code that powered version 2.21 of the application.
After the shooter's phone had been recovered, the FBI asked San Bernardino County, the owner of the phone, to reset the password to the shooter's iCloud account in order to acquire data from the iCloud backup. However, this rendered the phone unable to backup recent data to iCloud, until the new iCloud password was entered.
It also allowed websites to support Apple Pay as a method of transferring payment, using either a nearby iOS device or Touch ID to authenticate. iCloud also received several improvements, such as the ability to store a user's Desktop and Documents folders on iCloud so they could be synced with other Macs on the same Apple ID. It was released ...
The images were initially believed to have been obtained via a breach of Apple's cloud services suite iCloud, [1] [2] or a security issue in the iCloud API which allowed them to make unlimited attempts at guessing victims' passwords. [3] [4] Apple claimed in a press release that access was gained via spear phishing attacks. [5] [6]