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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: 2) by janrinok on Monday February 12 2018, @07:16AM (1 child)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 12 2018, @07:16AM (#636593) Journal

    Words matter. Keep calling BS when you spot it.

    Do you stand in an empty room and tell yourself that it isn't stealing, it is copying? Because that is the value of your words here, for the following reasons:

    • On this site we all know the difference. You need not try to change our views.
    • It unlikely that the actual author of the source material reads this site, so it is not going to change his views.
    • The lawmakers and judges probably do not read this site either, so it will not change how future laws will be written.

    For the reasons just given, venting your rage here is most certainly 'wasted time'. Why don't you try to change the views of those that can change the current situation?

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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by requerdanos on Monday February 12 2018, @04:01PM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 12 2018, @04:01PM (#636717) Journal

    On this site we all know the difference.

    In my experience, I have found the opposite to be the case. (sigh.)