Apple Code Accidentally 'Liberated'
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How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone's Most Sensitive Code
On Wednesday, an anonymous person published the proprietary source code of a core and fundamental component of the iPhone’s operating system.
A user named “ZioShiba” posted the closed source code for iBoot—the part of iOS responsible for ensuring a trusted boot of the operating system—to GitHub, the internet’s largest repository of open source code.
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iOS iBoot Source Code Was Leaked By Former Apple Engineering Intern
Apple keeps an ultra tight grip on iOS and is not keen on sharing its proprietary code. Even so, the company's iBoot source code for iOS 9 was recently leaked to the web, and even though Apple's mobile devices now run on iOS 11, it is very likely that some of the same code has been carried over. At least one security researcher called this the biggest leak in iPhone history, which begs the question, how could something like this happen? The answer may have something to do with peer pressure.
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Apple confirms iOS source code got leaked on GitHub
Apple has indirectly confirmed the code for a critical iOS component was leaked on open-source sharing site GitHub. The closely guarded code was quickly removed, but not before it had been viewed, downloaded and archived by hundreds of developers.
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Apple intern reportedly leaked iPhone source code
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iPhone Source Code Was Leaked by Low-Level Apple Employee
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An Apple intern reportedly leaked critical iOS source code to iPhone jailbreakers
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A Jailbreaker Was Allegedly Behind Apple's iBoot Source Code Leak
The code to the iOS 9 version of the iPhone’s iBoot software—the proprietary system that ensures trusted launches of iOS, and one of Apple’s closely held secrets—leaked this week on Github, the open-source code repository. According to Motherboard, sources now say a low-level employee who stole the code at work was responsible.
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An Intern At Apple Stole And Then Leaked Critical iPhone Source Code, Says Report
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