Talk:Brick

Difficulty of bricking an iOS device

"(unless very specifically designed to do so by a malicious person, which has not been seen "in the wild")" --- Wasn't this seen here recently with the nvram hack that was discovered here?? Given it hasn't been used in an actual tweak or a package yet... MWoolweaver (talk) 16:28, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

What I meant by this sentence is that nobody has deployed this method maliciously/intentionally in a package on any repository that I've heard of - they have all so far been clearly marked as dangerous "proof of concept" packages/instructions, not meant to trick you. In other words, it's not "in the wild" as a malicious tweak that people might randomly run into right now. I'd welcome revising this sentence with alternate phrasing that makes this more clear. Britta (talk) 05:07, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Maybe we could advise people to delete/rename nvram binary (e.g. mv /usr/sbin/nvram /usr/sbin/nvram.disabled) so that potentially malicious tweaks can't use it (it's easy to bypass by supplying another copy of nvram with the tweak though).--Danzatt (talk) 08:19, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, that doesn't really protect people, so it's not super useful to recommmend. In general I believe this page is mostly helpful as a technical reference for people curious about how bricking works instead of as a user guide for avoiding it. :) Britta (talk) 23:12, 21 February 2015 (UTC)