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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: 2) by Marand on Monday February 12 2018, @07:03PM

    by Marand (1081) on Monday February 12 2018, @07:03PM (#636778) Journal

    Rather than chastising people who fight against proprietary software companies, you should chastise the proprietary software companies for abusing users.

    False dichotomy; I can chastise both for different reasons. The world is not black-and-white, and it's possible to disagree with someone's actions despite said actions being taken against someone I dislike, even when the action is beneficial to a cause I agree with.

    Not really. For a Free Software activist, those are two different things with different implications. One weakens proprietary software and the other doesn't. Proprietary software should not exist, period.

    My point was that, once you completely disregard someone else's rights, there's no reason to expect anyone else to have any regard for yours. If you feel you can do whatever you like because the end goal of harming proprietary software justifies it, then you're also implicitly condoning bad behaviour from the "other side" as well, because once you stop respecting someone else's rights, they have no reason to respect yours.

    I don't think it's a bad thing to begin with, so you fail already. The ends can indeed justify the means, especially when the means aren't even bad, like here.

    So you have a "no bad tactics, only bad targets" mindset. That's the mantra of a zealot, and something we will not agree on.

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