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		RandallBrown on Feb 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak The original jailbreak was a browser exploit too. I believe it involved serving up a malformed TIFF. I remember stories of people going and jailbreaking every iPhone and iPod touch in the apple stores.

drbawb on Feb 4, 2013 [–]

I remember an early PSP jailbreak (SKU PSP-1000/-2000) being based on an exploit in libtiff through an image loaded in the browser.

I wonder if it was the same exploit.

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