> I found nothing sketchy in my reversing, your phones most likely aren't being backdoored by Chinese.
The persistent (and buggy) stage of the exploit used to "untether" (re-exploit on reboot) and patch the OS is obfuscated. That's where a backdoored exploit would be if there was one anyway.
I think it's unlikely the evad3rs actually included a backdoor in their payload, but the way they handled their release was still silly enough that I won't install it. iOS jailbreaks are all taken on faith (after all, nobody but them knows what's in that obfuscated untether/patch binary) and they didn't do a lot to build any.
They agreed to bundle an app store who's only purpose is piracy (0xabadidea and Paul Haddad worked to remove their piracy system previously) without in the slightest wondering what it would be used for. From what I've read there's still bits of the Chinese scumware installed when you jailbreak in another country, and given the opinion of the Chinese company involved.. I wouldn't put it past them.
I truly hope that geohot or another skilled developer repackages their jailbreak with a copy of MobileSubstrate that actually works and a Cydia build that's built properly by saurik. The evad3rs have completely lost any trust they have, and from pod2g's tweets they're extremely aware of how badly they fucked this up.
> This journey stops at root for now, since the /evasi0n7 binary is supa obfuscated good.
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The keyboard is iOS 6 styled because the app hasn't been compiled for iOS 7.
Nothing out of the ordinary here.
