{"id":11443,"date":"2013-09-06T17:55:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T17:55:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-06T17:55:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T17:55:47","slug":"why_jailbreaking_isn_t_for_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/09\/06\/why_jailbreaking_isn_t_for_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Jailbreaking Isn\u2019t for Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Ron in Pensacola, Florida. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Dittos from the back of the class since about \u201992 or \u201993, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s great to have you here in the front row today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I remember when you used to have to bang the printer to get it to work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I still do. I just do that in private now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, with iOS 7 and the Apple event next week, I was thinking. I don\u2019t recall you talking about jailbreaking Apple devices before. Are you for it or against it? Most people are pretty passionate about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s not… There are not a whole lot of people that do it in terms of the universe of owners. Most people wouldn\u2019t know the first thing to do to jailbreak their phone and be afraid of breaking it if they did. I have been tempted to do it a few times, but only to give myself a little bit more control over the system functions, not for apps. But I\u2019ve not done it. I\u2019ve always decided not to do it, because Apple knows.<\/p>\n

They know who has jailbroken phones. They could break your phone if they want to. You blow your warranty out sky-high if you do it, and I\u2019m not that kind of power user. The interesting thing about what\u2019s coming next week, iOS 7, is that there aren\u2019t going to be what I felt were reasons to jailbreak the phone anymore. Once people get a load… Two things are gonna happen with this. A lot of users are gonna be totally confused by the new look.<\/p>\n

The function remains the same in large part, but it looks all different. Things are in different places and operate a little bit differently. It is a humongous technological advancement. It is beautiful. It\u2019s layered. It\u2019s state-of-the-art. It\u2019s light years ahead of iOS 6. But people have gotten comfortable with iOS 6 and 5 and 4. They\u2019ve gotten used to it, and this is gonna be a tremendous — I don\u2019t want to say shock, but it\u2019s like you get accustomed to anything in then there\u2019s a big change like this.<\/p>\n

But most of the jailbreak items that people really liked have been incorporated here one way or another. I\u2019m not gonna say that the jailbreak items have been stolen. That\u2019s not what I mean. But with the system expandability that jailbreaking gave you, those kinds of things like multitasking and the Control Center and all kinds of streamlined workflow advances are in iOS 7, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s gonna be as big a need to jailbreak.<\/p>\n

The people who are gonna continue to do it are just the nerd geeks that love doing that kind of stuff. And, God bless. I mean, let me tell you. There\u2019s a new app. I don\u2019t know how into this you are, but if you ever wished that you could get a video from your iPhone to your computer without having to e-mail it, without having to go to all kinds of things, there\u2019s an app that has just been put on sale in the App Store called Desk Connect, and it was created by an early jailbreaker, a kid that\u2019s 17 years old.<\/line><\/p>\n

I believe he has invented this app, and it does more than ever. There\u2019s a new Apple app in iOS 7 called AirDrop, but it only works between iOS devices, iPhones and iPads and iPad touches. This enables you to transfer whatever. It\u2019s not just the vide but pictures, documents, you name it, any kind of file. This guy was a jailbreaker, and he\u2019s a hacker, but he loves iOS. He was not doing any of it to corrupt Apple. He just wanted to learn it. It was mind expansion for him. I was reading a long story about this.<\/p>\n

His last name is Weinstein, and he\u2019s now written this app. So the jailbreak community, it\u2019s got its positives. It\u2019s not something that I have done. I\u2019ve not wanted to, quote\/unquote “break” it. You\u2019re breaking your phone when you do it, and has nothing to do with cell phone service, folks, if you\u2019re wondering.<\/p>\n

You know, it\u2019s you have your phone on AT&T and you want to use it on something else? That\u2019s not what this is. This just takes out the walls that Apple has put into the operating system. It breaks \u2019em down and you can do with it whatever you want or whatever you can buy on their store, the jailbreak store, which is called Cydia. I just have never really wanted to get into it that much. I\u2019m a user.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, privacy is one of the issues that concerns me so there\u2019s an app on Cydia that you can get that I won\u2019t name but it prevents any program from sending your contacts or accessing the Internet or turning on the camera unless you give it permission to do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh… Well, now, I don\u2019t know what the name of the app is. It wouldn\u2019t be hard to find it. But you\u2019re talking about privacy encryption?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I\u2019m talking about accessing certain parts of the iOS. So when you start up almost any program — I\u2019ve seen this written up in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> and New York Times — there are a lot of apps that download your contacts or your individual ID number. They want to track what you do. It\u2019s sort of like a cookie to a operating system, but they get your information, and this program that has the word “privacy” in it, it protects that from happening.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I will just tell you that… I don\u2019t know how much I can talk about this \u2019cause there\u2019s an NDA associated with it, but I think Apple has written this up on their website. There is now a… Let me put it this way. You have that ability in three different areas here to shut your phone down so it doesn\u2019t share data with sponsors, potential sponsors. Apple Maps, this kind of thing. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s this comprehensive, this app that you\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

Those things, I don\u2019t really worry about. I\u2019m not obsessed with that. I\u2019ve got enough control turning off things, so I just say… Well, let me just leave it at that. I don\u2019t want to give away too much here because I\u2019m a public figure and a target, but those concerns are not that great. I\u2019ve dealt with them in other ways. I wouldn\u2019t have to jailbreak, in other words, to be able to protect myself. I\u2019ve done other things that we powerful, influential members of the media must do that are outside above and beyond any single device.<\/p>\n

But I appreciate where you\u2019re coming from. A lot of people are obsessed with thinking they\u2019re being tracked, everything they do, as if there\u2019s somebody watching them, keeping track, getting ready to exploit their information somehow. And it is amazing how much can be tracked and done, but I don\u2019t… It\u2019s like the NSA doesn\u2019t actually have somebody monitoring your keyboard as you input data and tracking it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that, despite what Snowden says. It\u2019s too massive. There\u2019s too much data. It just like our sponsor, iDrive.com. Look at all the data they handle. They\u2019re the premier backup service for computer hard drives and iPhones, iPads, you name it. People ask me, “Well, what if…? You know, the data\u2019s all on their servers. What if they want to go get my data and look at my data?” They couldn\u2019t find it.<\/line><\/p>\n

They encrypt it anyway, and much of what is on your phone anyway is encrypted, but it\u2019s too massive. They couldn\u2019t go get it. The amount of data would boggle your mind. Same thing with the NSA. I think I\u2019ve read — and I\u2019d have to get this confirmed by literal intel experts, if they would. But I\u2019ve read that of all the, say, e-mail data that the NSA collects — and this is still a large, but the odds are it doesn\u2019t include yours. It\u2019s that 5% of it is actually tracked, and they do target specific people based on criminal activity.<\/p>\n

Now, we did learn, \u2019cause these things are possible, that certain NSA employees were targeting ex-lovers to find out if they were dating other people yet. Spying on their exes. The ability clearly exists; I\u2019m not trying to diminish it. But, look, I have to be very careful how I say this. I don\u2019t want anybody to be insulted. But for the vast majority of us, nobody cares what we\u2019re doing, and with who.<\/p>\n

For the vast majority of us. There are 300-some million people in this country. The vast majority, nobody cares, and it\u2019s a genie that you\u2019re not gonna be able to put back in the bottle. I think the app he\u2019s talking about on Cydia, which is the jailbreak App Store, it\u2019s called iProtect. Just a wild guess. Think that\u2019s what he\u2019s talking about. If you in the audience are wondering. We\u2019re a full service show here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, the NSA, National Security Agency, has the capacity to collect 75% of US e-mail, and they are probably actually collecting less than one-tenth of 1%, or 1% of 1%. It\u2019s a very small amount that they are collecting. And, yeah, they can store it, they can keep it. But, folks, this isn\u2019t anything new. How long\u2019s the NSA been around? The NSA has been monitoring things for as long as they have been around. That\u2019s what their purpose is. It\u2019s part and parcel of technological advancement.<\/p>\n

Go out and read some of these old guys like Alexis de Tocqueville. He warned of all the various disruptions to the way this country was founded; the things that could make government grow; the things that can make government become more powerful and more desirous of becoming more powerful, and one of the things that makes this possible is technological advancement. It\u2019s not just consumers who benefit from it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I know it troubles a lot of people. I don\u2019t really worry about it. I can\u2019t tell you why. I don\u2019t worry about a whole lot. I don\u2019t let very much offend me. I don\u2019t worry about this. Something happens, it happens, but —<\/line><\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

What? Well, no, I\u2019m not talking about the IRS. That\u2019s a different thing. I was speaking specifically about wanting to take steps to make sure what I\u2019m doing on my phone stays in my phone. The IRS, that\u2019s not technological. That is strict statism. That is nothing more than a political agenda being used at the IRS against the enemies of a particular political party. That\u2019s not what the NSA is doing. The possibility for it exists, of course. But, no, no, the IRS scandal outrages me, like it does everybody. Big government no matter what it\u2019s doing bothers me.<\/p>\n

But when I say I don\u2019t worry, I just don\u2019t sit around and fret over it. I don\u2019t let it ruin my day. And I don\u2019t start concocting conspiracy theories. I have this phrase, “it is what it is.” And remember, I\u2019m the mayor of Realville. And there aren\u2019t too many people that live there. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve been elected mayor. It doesn\u2019t take too many votes. Mine and a few others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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