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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: 5, Informative) by requerdanos on Sunday February 11 2018, @05:08PM
I'm not fine with that. And there are laws against it. [malawforum.com] But the laws do not refer to "stealing" the car because that is not what happened.
What you did is wrong, and there is a law against. The law is not against "stealing" (you didn't) nor against "being a jerk" (debatable), it's against your use of my car without permission. It is a law thing, not a "nerd" thing.
Yeah, no, you don't have permission, so what you did was wrong. Believe it or not, though--it's not legally (nor in any other manner) called "stealing the house." It's called tresspassing [thefreedictionary.com]. This is because even though you tresspassed, you did not put the house in your pocket and leave with it. This would be difficult, because the house is large and your pocket is small.
What you did is wrong, and there is a law against. The law is not against "stealing" (you didn't) nor against "being a jerk" (debatable), it's against your use of my house without permission. It is a law thing, not a "nerd" thing.
Please reflect on what you are saying. Honestly, if you are trying to help, the foregoing should have been enough; if you are not trying to help, then you are succeeding.