Waiting for the iOS 7 Jailbreak ever since the Apple released it's software update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on September. Over the past days team Evad3rs as you all know have released evais0n Jailbreak for the iOS 6 - iOS 6.1.3 now being confirmed that they are now working on the iOS 7 version of Jailbreak.
Presently they have added an incentive for releasing the iOS 7 Jailbreak and not that alone as they needed one. They have launched a website called the iosios7jailbrokenyet to crowd fund the device freedom prize for the hacker or hackers who release a Jailbreak for the iOS 7 first.
And this explains why ?
We strongly believe that users should have the freedom to control their devices. We wanted an open source jailbreak for iOS 7, giving users the capability to install what they want on their own devices and the ability to audit the code they’re using to do so. Jailbreaking is also critical to ensuring that the disabled are able to use their mobile devices as easily as possible. So we started a prize for the first people who can do it.
Read more about why device freedom and reform to the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions matter at EFF.org, in Chilling Effect’s FAQs about anti-circumvention, and at FixtheDMCA.org.
They have also given the criteria for winning the prize:
– Work for iPhones (including 4S, 5, 5c, 5s) running iOS 7.
– Support the latest current version of iOS (7.04).
– Be untethered and accessible to the average user.
– Be publicly released and available free of charge.
– Be released under one of the OSI-approved licenses.
Being its something hard to being reviews under some of the toughest profiles like Kyle Wiens of the iFixit, Cory Doctornow, Co-edttor of the Bing Bing and a DMCA activist are the ones being the part of the panel and will be reviewd untill they meet the criteria for the prize. Collection has now filled $10357 for the prize. Not being a bigger incentive for the Evad3rs team as they are probably being getting a lot of donations when they release a Jailbreak, but it would be something big for the other hackers in working on the Jailbreak.
So f you want to make the hackers for faster n making the Jailbreak for the iOS 7 just make out an effective donation to fasten then by visiting isios7jailbrokenyet.com
Update :
Jay Freeman aka Saurik, founder of the Cynda has an interesting fact in releasing the website in taking up donations upfront for the Jailbreak. He made a reddit out message telling :
The primary problem I have with this website is that it attempts to change the dynamics from one of “people who do things that are fun to make devices more open” to one of “people who do things to win cash prizes”. Meanwhile, it changes the dynamics in the minds of the people contributing: normally, people contribute after the fact to the teams that built something that they found of value; under the model of this website, people contribute ahead of time, and then hope that the thing that is released works for their specific device (or even “runs on their computer”, etc.), and if it doesn’t they are kind of out of luck.
Read out the entire reddit thread here.
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