Cydia sues Apple for anticompetitive behaviour

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“Freeman claims that the risks of jailbreaking are "overblown" and are similar to downloading software from a PC.”

I’m guessing that if the word ‘overblown’ were not present, Apple would wholeheartedly agree with this statement.

A lot of these debates seem to boil down to how serious the threat from malware, social engineering, and other bad actors actually is.

I suppose one could question what is an acceptable level of risk. Security is hard, effective security even harder. Threat actors are looking for any way in and when they attack a target, it's not just personal information that they are after. Compromising a device potentially means that they can access the target work place details too.

Another thing to consider is culpability. If a device owner bricks their phone because the have downloaded malware through 3rd party store, who are they going to look too for support?

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