Technical differences between rooting and jailbreaking?!
The reason why I am posting this in "Linux - Hardware" is because it happens to be Android device-related: I am curious as to what the difference is between rooting an Android device and jailbreaking an iPhone, as they seem to be used almost interchangeably. In particular, just what are you doing (from a technical standpoint) when you jailbreak an iPhone versus when you root something with Android?
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jailbreaking means to remove limitations on running protected operations. Although similar, they aren't the same. Root access only allows you to remove limitations if they are due to permissions - not if they are hard-coded in firmware, for example. Jailbreaking might remove a firmware-imposed limitation by modifying the firmware but not give full access to a system. |
iOS jailbreaking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
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Thanks guys. Marking this thread Solved...
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