Apple's Bug Hunters Stopping iOS 10 Jailbreak Process?

Six weeks ago iOS 10 has been presented to the public and there is still no news regarding

jailbreak release for her. Hackers managed hack iOS 10, but it seems no one wants to spotlight the revealed exploits and make them public. Should Apple blame the Bug Hunters for this?

When this summer Apple first introduced its iOS 10 beta, she gave the public access to the unencrypted core of the system. This step made it easier to identifyshortcomings and "holes" in the security system. And also inspired users with vain hope for a faster jailbreak development. But it turned out that this was not the case.

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In fact, an unencrypted kernel allowed Apple easier and faster to close security gapsthat existed in every release of iOS 10. Probably it also allowed to release each subsequent version of the system more secure than the previous version. Apple has taken other steps to improve the security and reliability of the system.

Presented in August at the Computer Hackers conference, the program “Bug Hunters pays hackers amounts up to $ 200,000 for finding weaknesses in the systemiOS and iCloud, which can pose a serious threat to users. Payments are made only on one condition - all found so-called holes must be reported to Apple specialists to eliminate them in future updates.

The biggest rewards rely onfinding holes in the components of a safe firmware launch. They allow hackers to obtain super user rights and hack into the iOS device’s operating system.

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Which puts hackers in front of a very difficult choice. If you find a bug that can lead to the development of a jailbreak, hackers can either remain silent and create a jailbreak, or inform Apple specialists about it and get hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Therefore, it’s easy to understand why the community of system hackers have been relatively quiet and cautious since the release of iOS 10. For the first time, we saw hacked iPhone 7 in septemberreless than a week after the device entered the market - but with since then nowhat actions.

But in the case of the iOS 9 system, it took Pangu hackers just a month to develop her first jailbreak. This team is already demonstrated a jailbreak for iOS 10 in July this year at a conference in Shanghai on the security system of mobile devices, but the proposed hacking option was too crude and required significant revision.

While it is not clear whether this version of the jailbreak is still in development or the latest versions of iOS 10 have covered those gaps that allowed hacking in the proposed way.

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Apple experts are playing the game "cats and mice" withhackers since the very first iPhone. Almost every system update brings an improvement in the security of the system, thus preventing its hacking, but hackers find ever new holes that allow you to create new exploits.

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This brilliant idea is to offer large sums.cash to hackers for finding security flaws instead of allowing them to take advantage of these flaws. It remains a mystery why Apple did not offer the Bug Hunters program earlier.

Most likely this program will not stop hackersquit trying to jailbreak iOS. Currently, only researchers invited to the bug hunting program can receive generous rewards from Apple. But there are many other hackers who will not receive anything from Apple if they find a security bug and report it to Apple. In fact, the jailbreak for iOS 10 may be the best recommendation for an unknown hacker to gain recognition and a chance to get into the Bug Hunters program in the future.

Thus, it seems that the existence of such a program has already affected the community and has led to a slowdown in the development of new jailbreaks for iOS 10.