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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: 1, Offtopic) by Marand on Monday February 12 2018, @06:47PM

    by Marand (1081) on Monday February 12 2018, @06:47PM (#636773) Journal

    This is about the property rights of the iphone owner versus the copyright privileges of the seller. Rights trump privileges.

    No, that's just more "ends justify the means" bullshit. There's no requirement to violate Apple's copyright to maintain your property rights as buyer, as evidenced by every other jailbreak that's been done without someone handing over the source. You don't have to, and shouldn't, disregard someone else's legal rights (whatever you may think of copyright, it's still legally recognised*) just because you don't like what they create with them. If you care about the right to do what you wish with what you purchase, this is the wrong way to go about doing it. (Of course, if you actually care about property rights you probably shouldn't be buying Apple products in the first place...)

    It's also still off topic to this comment thread, which was about whether copyright violation is theft or not. You can keep modding me troll for saying it, but it won't make your comments be on-topic. This entire tangent belongs in a different comment chain, not tacked onto this one to address your pet peeve. What you did is basically the same as whenever someone interjects "ahem, it's really GNU/Linux" into random Linux discussions: even if people agree, it's not the topic at hand and doesn't belong.

    * Of course, copyright durations are completely out of whack and the laws need changing to reduce copyright length and take back the public domain, but that's a different argument and a different fight that isn't applicable here.

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