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toddos · 08-05-2010, 04:37 AM

Once you've used this security hole to jailbreak your device, install the PDF Loading Warner tweak from Cydia to prevent other sites from exploiting the hole silently. This will make Safari warn you any time it's about to open a PDF file, so if you didn't just explicitly tell it to open a PDF you would've been hacked without this in place (of course if you say "Yes", you'll be hacked anyway).

08-05-2010, 04:37 AM	#15
toddos Guru Posts: 695 Karma: 822675 Join Date: May 2010 Device: Kobo Aura, Nokia Lumia 920 (Freda)	Once you've used this security hole to jailbreak your device, install the PDF Loading Warner tweak from Cydia to prevent other sites from exploiting the hole silently. This will make Safari warn you any time it's about to open a PDF file, so if you didn't just explicitly tell it to open a PDF you would've been hacked without this in place (of course if you say "Yes", you'll be hacked anyway).