jailbreak
Noun
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Noun
jailbreak (plural jailbreaks)
Translations- German: Gefängnisausbruch
- Russian: побег
- Spanish: fuga, huida de cárcel
jailbreak (jailbreaks, present participle jailbreaking; past jailbroke, past participle jailbroken)
- To escape from prison.
- (transitive, computing) To modify the firmware of an electronic device, especially a mobile phone, in order to remove restrictions that prevent it from running unofficial software.
- Synonyms: root
- 2012, Ole Henry Halvorsen, Douglas Clarke, OS X and iOS Kernel Programming, Apress (ISBN 9781430235378), page 21 ↗:
- Unofficially, it has been possible to “Jailbreak” iOS and gain access to the underlying Unix and kernel environment, but this voids the warranty.
- 2016, Mike Meyers, CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Ninth Edition (Exams 220-901 & 220-902), McGraw Hill Professional (ISBN 9781259588716), page 1172:
- In order to gain true root access to a mobile device, a user has to either jailbreak (iOS) or root (Android/Windows) the device.
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