Installous closes permanently. Hacking the iPad will be much more difficult now

Installous disappears, it's over. The Top source of iOS app hacking stop operating. This has been announced from Hackulo.us in an official statement in which they explain that the main reason for adopting this decision has been the decrease in activity in their community and the absence of discussions in their forums. The news is really good for both developers and Apple itself.

Installous was a tweak from the Hackulo repository that allowed you to install applications from the App Store without going through the apple box, that is, you could have free applications for iPad or iPhone by obtaining them from their platform. In order to be eligible, you had to jailbreak and this is perhaps the source of the confusion that often exists between jailbreak and hacking.

Jailbreaking your iOS device is completely legal. We simply enable the option to install applications from a source other than the App Store. If you are interested, we will explain how to jailbreak your iPad with iOS 5.1.1 since with iOS 6 it does not exist yet and those of Cupertino have made things really difficult this time.

Hereinafter hacking an iPad will be much more difficult since Installous precisely offered users without technical knowledge the option of taking these applications illegally. There are many others, such as VShare itself, which we already described as an alternative to the closed service in this articleor, and we are sure that they are emerging and that many more will emerge.

Either way, it's a serious blow to the main source and the one that made piracy more accessible. Surprisingly, it does not come as a result of legal action, but rather because of the lack of activity and the difficulty that those responsible for keeping the project alive had. Of course, benefits and funds to support themselves were not getting from this. You can see the Hackulo.us release at this link.