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A former Apple intern has been blamed for a leak of iOS source code. The intern reportedly distributed it to five friends in the iOS jailbreaking community, and the code eventually spread out of this group:
Earlier this week, a portion of iOS source code was posted online to GitHub, and in an interesting twist, a new report from Motherboard reveals that the code was originally leaked by a former Apple intern.
According to Motherboard, the intern who stole the code took it and distributed it to a small group of five friends in the iOS jailbreaking community in order to help them with their ongoing efforts to circumvent Apple's locked down mobile operating system. The former employee apparently took "all sorts of Apple internal tools and whatnot," according to one of the individuals who had originally received the code, including additional source code that was apparently not included in the initial leak.
The DMCA notice GitHub received from Apple that resulted in the takedown of the ZioShiba/iBoot repository.
Related:
Leak of iBoot Code to GitHub Could Potentially Help iPhone Jailbreakers.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 11 2018, @06:15PM (2 children)
Let's see if we can work through how this works in your universe where borrowing somebody's car does not deprive them of the use of the car. Note: If you do not understand the implications if this first sentence, then Riker will tell you that you can't. Don't even try.
My car is licensed under the GNU Bad Car Analogy License v2. Under the terms of the licensing agreement, you are entitled to use my car and also get a copy of the Haynes manual. I may charge you a reasonable distribution fee for this, but in practice nobody does. My car may not be distributed without the Haynes manual.
So when you borrow my car, you obtain an exact copy of my car, but you're also bound by my licensing agreement. You agree that you will not let anybody borrow your copy of my car unless you also provide them with a copy of the Haynes manual. I might think about charging a distribution fee if you, your friends, and then everybody on this side of the state clogs up my driveway borrowing their own copy of my GNU Bad Analogy Car, but that's probably not going to happen, because for some insane reason everybody wants iCars.
So, let's say you borrow a copy of my car. Then you lend a copy of that car to somebody else, but you refuse to give them the Haynes manual and insist that they must see you for all repair needs. All 3 of us still have cars, but the Bad Car Analogy Frontier Foundation might come after your ass and give you nightmares.
So, let's say your borrow somebody else's iCar. You now have a copy of an iCar, and both you and your friend can use your iCars at the same time. The trouble is that you've broken the iProprietary iLicense. Who's been harmed? You still have your iCar. Your friend also has an iCar now. However, Apple insists that your friend has failed to convert a Potential Sale into a Kinetic Sale before moving through a distance (or something, probably involving work, which obviously is not required in your universe to get a car), and thus his ass is grass. But there are still two cars.
I almost feel as though somebody has made this analogy before, and I am merely telling it from memory....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 11 2018, @10:12PM (1 child)
may charge you a reasonable distribution fee for this, but in practice nobody does
The Elive model^W distro tried charging for it.
(Apparently, the developer saw it as his sole source of income.)
The popularity of that product suffered as a result.
A new development team has taken over and Elive is gratis once again.
Note: If you're looking for a distro that uses the Enlightenment desktop by default, try Elive.
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Warren Woodford, the founder of MEPIS, went through a similar thing WRT inadequate funding.
He ended up getting a regular job and MEPIS is no more.
N.B. In memory of MEPIS, the antiX team has developed the MX distro which is a bit more fleshed-out than is the antiX distro.
(antiX was originally a lighter fork of MEPIS.)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 11 2018, @10:35PM
I never knew. I am a fan of Antix work. That is very sad.