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A Former Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iOS Source Code to the Jailbreaking Community

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

takyon writes:

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, @08:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @08:05AM (#636604)

    No, proprietary software is not wrong. If I spend time building something it will be proprietary because it is my property.

    Proprietary software is wrong because it denies users the four freedoms. [gnu.org] Maybe you didn't know that definition, or maybe you are the type of person who would disregard others' freedoms and the implications your actions have on society simply so you can make more money. I cannot fathom why someone would hold the position that it is somehow okay for a society to rely on black boxes and never be able to educate themselves as to what those computing devices actually do and how they do it. If you care about freedom, education, and independence, then that is not a position you should hold.

    Perhaps he is some Android nitwit who resents other players having relatively secure operating systems.

    Android also includes non-free proprietary user-subjugating software, so it's marginally better at best.

    Your speculation about this person is baseless, in any case.

    Nevertheless, he (or she) chose to try and damage a huge company and deprive all its users of what they paid for.

    They were deprived of nothing.

    This petty fool you support has threatened the security of every owner and user of an Apple device.

    Apple--not this "petty fool"--threatens user security and freedoms with digital restrictions management, walled gardens and non-free proprietary user-subjugating software.