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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: 3, Insightful) by coolgopher on Monday February 12 2018, @12:09AM (1 child)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Monday February 12 2018, @12:09AM (#636500)

    Poor Vandals [wikipedia.org], everyone has been stealing their good name from them...

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by requerdanos on Monday February 12 2018, @02:55AM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 12 2018, @02:55AM (#636547) Journal

    Poor Vandals [wikipedia.org]

    Sshhh! There are people here who I would swear would steal vandalize that article just to say that the people are now to be known as the STEALERS instead of the VANDALS.

    The following sentence is in special danger...

    This led to the use of the term "vandalism" to describe any senseless destruction, particularly the "barbarian" defacing of artwork.

    With "vandalism" being replaced by "stealing", "senseless destruction" being replaced by "anything at all, nothing in particular", and "defacing of artwork" being changed to "looking at something, or perhaps making an additional copy of it without asking first."