Would you jailbreak a company iphone?

[mrmr96]

Nope. Becasue if/when the phone farks up then apple won't fix it and you won't be able to do what you were supposed to do with it, i.e. your job. For the same reason I wouldn't install illegal or dodgy applications to my work laptop.

If my boss found out that I couldn't do my job becasue I'd done something 'dodgy' with a piece of company equipment then I would expect to get in a fair bit of hot water. Do what you want with your own phone, but not a company phone - it's not yours.

[Kaelic]

From a Network Admins point of view you would be at risk of putting illegal and unsigned software on a company device therefore it could have the potential to cost the company time and money in fixing what you have done, be it from unlicensed software or even dodgy stuff like a virus.

In our company it is as bad as putting your own OS on a company laptop and installing a shed load of pirated software, which is a big no no and opens the company up to many risks.

Also any warranty on the handsets would be void

[AB]

Jailbreak... rectified by a very quick restore. So assuming you have the ability to do that through iTunes...

[Bibbs]

Not traceable .. at all.

It's a doddle to do, and a doddle to restore.

[UncappedTag]

You break EULA as soon as you Jailbreak it, I would not no matter how untraceable/undoable it is.

Edited by UncappedTag on Wednesday 20th January 12:52

[mcflurry]

Bibbs said:

Not traceable .. at all.

It's a doddle to do, and a doddle to restore.

If the OP owned the phone, then fine.
As it's a company phone - I wouldn't personally.

[AB]

Bibbs said:

Not traceable .. at all.

It's a doddle to do, and a doddle to restore.

Yep.

[TonyToniTone]

Except when there is problem with the phone and then you would be up st creek.

[Dibby]

Do it!

If you bork it, restore back to the standard firmware ... it's is always advisable to re-flash your device before you give it back anyway to get rid of private data before it ends up in someone else's hands.

I'm a minion and I wouldn't think twice about doing it. Just make sure you put it back before you return the phone.

If a problem occurs and you can't restore ... then the problem :wink,wink,nudge,nudge: could have been a coffee spilt all over it or it fell out of your pocket into a tank on a site visit to make sure it's properly broken and they can't even turn it on to check whether it's been tampered

You also say it belonged to someone else who has left ... could they have jailbroken it and you know nothing about what jailbreaking is, just like remapping a 2nd hand car without changing the date stamp on the ECU?

Edited by Dibby on Wednesday 20th January 16:10

[Tiggsy]

The advice is....its not your phone so dont fk it up. The idea that if you REALLY fk it up you can just bust it and lie only works if you dont care about your job or your boss (in which case, you need a better job not a new app)