Re: Implications of Jail breaking ipod/iphones

["Anderson, Sherry" <Sherry () ADMIN USF EDU>]

I would be interested in the answer to this too.  

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Subject: [SECURITY] Implications of Jail breaking ipod/iphones

I have had several people ask me about this and I have tried  googling  
around the area but most the stuff I have found consists of lists of  
dos and don'ts with little or no background info.

The basic question is what are the security implications of jail  
breaking your iphone?

Clearly this allows one to install applications that have not been  
blessed by Apple (with the risks that that entails).  Are their less  
obvious risks such as making it easier for browser bugs to be  
exploited to do damage?

Like most things in security I suspect that there are cases where  
phones should not be tampered with and others where the risk is  
acceptable.

I would also appreciate any good references to the iPhone security  
model.

Russell