Yesterday, we bid farewell to one of the most infamousjailbreaksof all time:evasi0n. Born onFebruary 4, it lasted nearly 6 weeks before Apple finally disabled it by way of theiOS 6.1.3 software updateit issued yesterday.
It certainly served its purpose though. According to Jay Freeman, akaSaurik, Cydia saw more than 18 million unique iPhones, iPads and iPod touches, running iOS 6 (or later), visit during the jailbreak’s 6-week long run…
Forbes Andy Greenberg, speaking with Freeman, reports:
“In the six weeks since evasi0n was released, however, close to 18 million devices have already been jailbroken, according to data from Jay Freeman, the administrator of the Cydia app store for jailbroken devices. He says he’s counted 18.2 million unique devices running iOS 6 visiting Cydia, including 13.8 million iPhones, 3.4 million iPads, and 1.1 million iPod Touches.”
It’s worth noting, though, that it’s quite possible evasi0n isn’t responsible for jailbreaking all 18 million devices. While they have their caveats, bothRedSn0wandSn0wBreezehave the ability tojailbreakolder devices on iOS 6.
But even if it only accounted for 17 million, that’d still be impressive. As Greenberg points out, Comex’s popularJailbreakMe 3hack was only used around 2 million times during its life cycle—remember, though, itonly lasted 9 days.
The evasi0n jailbreak lasted for 43 days, and through 2 software updates. Apple finally took it out yesterday, patching multiple exploits used in the hack. Four of the update’s six security fixes wereattributed to the evad3rs.
