Mobile phone towers survive latest iOS jailbreak frenzy (video)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/cell-towers-survive-jailbreak/     / nation’s mobile phone cell towers are still operating  1.7 million downloads latest iOS jailbreaking software evasiOn released prevent federal regulators legalizing jailbreaking Apple claimed United States of America USA US mobile networks could suffer potentially catastrophic cyberattacks iPhone-wielding hackers home abroad iPhone owners were permitted legally jailbreak iDevices iPhone iOS  Apocalypse never came upward of 14,000 downloads per minute Cydia jailbreak app store that is automatically installed when an iOS device is jailbroken Jay Freeman operator 1.7 million Cydia downloads evasiOn release grants root access phone tablet Apple’s app store iPad iPod jailbreak free Linux Windows OS X first untethered jailbreak iPhone 5 Apple devices running iOS 6.x developed team calling itself evad3rs hack exploits five bugs in the iOS code Apple told the government in 2009 that the iPhone would become perhaps a dangerous weapon local international hacker could potentially initiate commands denial of service attack could crash tower software rendering tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data lead to potentially catastrophic result the technological protection measures were designed into the iPhone precisely to prevent these kinds of pernicious activities, and if granted, the jailbreaking exemption would open the door to them Federal regulators called rubbish on the assertion, and have twice granted the public the right to jailbreak their mobile phones. Dozens of exploits have followed, and even existed on Android and iOS before they were legalized All the while, mobile-phone towers went unscathed /