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A few weeks ago I did one drill of opinion in which we asked how many of you hack applications and how many of you buy them. 20 days have passed since the launch of that survey, 1000 people voted and 59% of them say they hack applications. Of course, the results of a survey are far from being 100% relevant, but we noticed a general tendency of Romanians to make a categorical connection between jailbreak and hacking. From my point of view, this thinking is wrong and shows that too little is known about jailbreak.
In the clip above, saurik, the founder of Cydia, shows us some of the advantages of the jailbreak, but he focuses only on Cydia. The jailbreak is, above all, legal, it represents a modification of the operating system that you as a user are entitled to do without anyone being able to stop you. Even if it was illegal, you could still do whatever you want with your phone because it belongs to you, you own it, you can modify it however you want, but you cannot distribute the modified version of the operating system. Jailbreak is legal, keep this in mind.
Jailbreak means freedom, the freedom to do absolutely anything you want with your terminal. Jailbreak gives you administrator access to the iOS operating system, so you can do absolutely anything you want on your phone without any restrictions. By jailbreaking you can completely modify the operating system as you like, you can install any tweaks or applications from Cydia, you have total freedom. Practically everything boils down to this principle of freedom, of the possibility to decide how to use the phone and nothing more.
Why is there an equal sign between jailbreak and hacking? Because since the AppStore has existed, there have been people who hack applications and publish them on the Internet, where anyone with a jailbroken terminal can install them without paying. The equal sign is wrong because not everyone who jailbreaks hacks applications. Most foreigners who jailbreak buy applications and tweaks from Cydia, but in Romania the situation is different. Romanians hack applications and this has nothing to do with the iPhone, because in Romania they hack anything for anything.
In Romania it is considered that jailbreak means piracy and that is fundamentally wrong. Those who say this do not understand the jailbreak and what it actually offers you, those who say this do so in ignorance of the cause. Jailbreak offers freedom, hacking is a component of this freedom, but everyone chooses whether they need to hack or not. Remember, jailbreaking is legal, jailbreaking means freedom, jailbreaking is not hacking.
