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posted by janrinok on Sunday February 11 2018, @03:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the so-I-guess-he-will-never-work-there dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @01:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @01:13AM (#636523)

    You're being hysterical.

    The party that was harmed was Apple. If Apple's users were depending on Apple's iSecurity through obscurity, they were harmed when they decided to buy the iThingie.

    Apple's iSecurity through obscurity certainly does not deprive Apple's customers of the product they purchased. They still have their iThingies! From this hysterical line of reasoning, you go into further hysterics saying that the intern should have her or his (you did consider that it might be a her, right?) access to an entire spectrum of technologies, many of which have nothing to do with Apple, revoked.

    I think you're the one who struggles with what moral and ethical mean.