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(Get the code!)
At the github site referenced here at the top it is said:
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"On newer iOS version, ValidatePair is not mandatory to gain trusted host status. Starting with iOS 11, the ValidatePair request has been removed from lockdownd and will throw an error. This commit adds a version check so that ValidatePair is only called on devices prior iOS 7."
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I'm looking for clarity here. As I understand it, libimobiledevice issues a formerly required ValidatePair call, and iOS 11 throws a killing error. Is that right? Isn't it reasonable that iOS 11 could just ignore it and keep going?
That is, isn't this something that one could ask Apple to fix?
Moreover, I still fail to understand why USB access to the iPhone file system is so bizarre. There is adequate authentication when (1) the iPhone is unlocked by the user and (2) the user responds on the unlocked phone to the question "Trust this computer?". It should then be the responsibility of iOS to show the unjailed part of the file system transparently through the lightning port. (In mentioning "jail", why are the vcards behind "Contacts" not outside of jail? There can be no legitimate reason for that.)
One is left with the impression that Apple has little respect for inter-operability with anything that is not Apple. It would seem that the only Apple-supported ways to move photos from an iPhone to a Linux platform are (1) email (one photo at a time) or (2) iCloud via the web, provided that the user allows iCloud backups from the phone. (The website at icloud.com is not itself fully inter-operable. For example, it says that it does not support Android mobile devices when it is called from my Android tablet.)