Apple has always frowned upon jailbreaking and probably always will. It's no secret that Apple deliberately goes out of their way to prevent iOS from being jailbroken which makes the release of iOS 6.1.1 and 6.1.2 that didn't break the jailbreak odd. Better get your jailbreak in while you can, though, because word is that Apple is now beta testing a new version of iOS 6.1.3 that closes the exploit for good.
Over at Forbes, data expert Andy Greenberg reports that iOS 6.1.3 beta 2 closes at least one of the exploits — a time zone bug — of the five exploits that evasi0n depends upon to succeed. And if one of those vulnerabilities doesn’t work, the whole jailbreak stops working.
"Wang tells me that he's analyzed the 6.1.3 beta 2 update and found that it patches at least one of the five bugs the jailbreak exploits, namely a flaw in the operating system's time zone settings. The beta update likely signals the end of using evasi0n to hack new or updated devices after the update is released to users, says Wang, who says he's still testing the patch to see which other vulnerabilities exploited by the jailbreak might no longer exist in the new operating system."
One of the reasons I think that Apple failed to address the exploits that evasi0n in the minor iOS updates is that it wasn't that crucial to fix at the moment. Unlike when previous exploits like Jailbreakme.com compromised iOS devices just by going to a website, evasi0n requires the user to physically upload the jailbreak.
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