You mean Cydia, I'll guess. That is fair. There are always potential problems awaiting beginners that do not check out a particular application or DL everything they see on Cydia because it is free.
Fortunately, the truly destructive things are widely discussed on knowledgeable forums, so a truly bad application is not long for the earth. And to be even fairer, lots of potential issues await those that use some of the hacker repos that make otherwise free applications available for free or repos that are known to be a potential issue because they are filled with bad apps. No shortage of repos dedicated to making apps available that should be paid for.
It is easy to add a bad repo and in some cases, it can be too late. At least with iTunes, Apple provides a buffer. No destructive Apple apps on iTunes, just occasionally tasteless and boring.
Fortunately, iOS tends to be isolated to prevent some of the worse issues. Until you JB, that is. This sandbox manes routine actions impossible, however so it is a tradeoff of sorts. If you JB, the very first thing you must do is change your password. Every iDevice has exactly the same password/log-in info unless it is changed.
The same issues and problems occur with Mac/PC users that DL just about anything they see on the web. It all boils down to careful thinking and a little research. If you choose to JB your devices (or root your phones) you should expect to spend a little time carefully considering your actions. Problems are minimized if you use a well-known and respected repo like the stock ones installed when you install Cydia.
I jail broke my iPad because I wanted to do a few specific things I otherwise could not normally do. I am not an adventurous repo surfer so I am absolutely safe.
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@...> wrote:
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> >>> I think I will wait for iOS 6.
> >>> ...
> >>> I can wait. At least until there is a tested jailbreak I can trust.
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> >> From where I sit, "a tested jailbreak I can trust" is an oxymoron.
> >>
> > Why is that? General jailbreak mistrust? If so, why? I have had zero issues.
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> It's not so much the actual jailbreak that I mistrust, it is the basic concept of a non-, minimally-, or loosely-curated App store.
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