Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted On GitHub (vice.com)

Jason Koebler shares a report from Motherboard: An anonymous person posted what experts say is the source code for a core component of the iPhone's operating system on GitHub, which could pave the way for hackers and security researchers to find vulnerabilities in iOS and make iPhone jailbreaks easier to achieve. The code is for "iBoot," which is the part of iOS that is responsible for ensuring a trusted boot of the operating system. It's the program that loads iOS, the very first process that runs when you turn on your iPhone. The code says it's for iOS 9, an older version of the operating system, but portions of it are likely to still be used in iOS 11. Bugs in the boot process are the most valuable ones if reported to Apple through its bounty program, which values them at a max payment of $200,000. "This is the biggest leak in history," Jonathan Levin, the author of a series of books on iOS and Mac OSX internals, told Motherboard in an online chat. "It's a huge deal." Levin, along with a second security researcher familiar with iOS, says the code appears to be the real iBoot code because it aligns with the code he reverse engineered himself.

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Re:I downloaded the source code.

[Excelcia]

It looks like two Russian prostitutes urinating on a bed while Donald Trump tries to get an erection in the corner.

And yes, this corresponds with what I have reverse engineered from the iPhone, so it appears legit.

Re:biggest leak in history

[FFOMelchior]

Snippet of leaked Windows 2000 code:

if (true)
Crash();

Given how some fanbois feel about Apple

[93 Escort Wagon]

Shouldn't this have been leaked on Pornhub rather than Github?

Re: "This is the biggest leak in history," - Get b

[Anonymous Coward]

Also significant, as a result of the leak, large parts of Windows 2000 code was incorporated into the Linux kernel. This gave Linux a strong boost during a time that it was struggling against BSD.

Android Leak Bigger

[bill_mcgonigle]

Seriously, somebody posted the entire source code to Android a while back.

Code still in iOS 11?

[hcs_$reboot]

"The code says it's for iOS 9, an older version of the operating system, but portions of it are likely to still be used in iOS 11"
Impossible. Used both. iOS 9 was working fine. iOS 11 is a bug nest.