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Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iPhone Source Code (theverge.com)
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. The Verge reports: 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 plan was originally to make sure that the code never left the initial circle of five friends, but apparently the code spread beyond the original group sometime last year. Eventually, the code was then posted in a Discord chat group, and was shared to Reddit roughly four months ago (although that post was apparently removed by a moderation bot automatically). But then, it was posted again to GitHub this week, which is when things snowballed to where they are now, with Apple ordering GitHub to remove the code.
The plan was originally to make sure that the code never left the initial circle of five friends, but apparently the code spread beyond the original group sometime last year.
5 people can keep a secret, if 4 of them are dead.
That horse has already left the barn. Trying to close the gate will serve no purpose other than making more people aware that the code is out there for the taking. Another entity who is about to learn the power of the Streisand effect the hard way in its own flesh.
Hmm. It's almost as if when a company asks to to sign a confidentiality agreement, they fuckin mean it, and for good reason.
Breakfast served all day!
I guess they'll have to think of an alternative to security by obscurity.
Hopefully there are no glaring security holes revealed in the code.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
For intern money.
If you're do something stupid like this, make fucking well sure you're going to be able to somehow stash some serious cash to live on afterwards. Not that Apple isn't going to try and take it all.
Name the intern so other companies can know who NOT to hire.
You want to have a position that involves trust, then live up to it. Break that trust and live with those results too.
But this intern needs to go to jail for a very long time. Theft is theft, and it was code for a multi billion dollar product.
Too many millennials cheat their way through everything in life with little to no ramifications. This is stealing no matter how you slice it. I'm no Apple fan but this person needs to be made an example. Prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
There's been a massive leak of the Android codebase, too. If you're quick you can download a copy here: https://tinyurl.com/4x7rfdd
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You grab the shit, you stash it on multiple burned cds/dvds/bdrs. You hide at least one copy outside of your possession, and ensure the others are places that wouldn't be found during a search warrant.
In 5 years you dig up those copies and release them, whether to friends, or to the community.
Almost nowhere keeps accurate enough documentation to trace back a source leak that happened 5 years ago, and even if they did it will usually no longer be worth pursuing even if it is. Furthermore in the case of potential security exploits others, such as the jailbreaking community, can use, it ensures they will have avoided scrutiny, barring a different leak, for at least that long, ensuring more hardware has the potential of being jailbroken.
Now mind you this is Apple we're talking about, so a year or two and leak is probably about as long as a device would retain relevance, while also helping ensure the next generation or two might still have similar flaws left in their code that you could leverage for jailbreaking them as well.
Assuming this stays out of criminal court, this kid's salary will be garnished for a lifetime as he tries to pay back the judgement against him.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
Whee now I have your secret code, jailbreaks for all next week.
The stupid is on so many levels here.
So, after you had your internship, for which you most assuredly signed NDA and other legal documents ... you decided you'd release code to outside people with the express intent of allowing them to hack iOS devices? And then that code is now widely spread to a public site because your greedy stupid little friends can't keep a secret?
This idiot is now seriously fucked, because the civil lawsuits which are going to rain down on him are going to pretty much ruin his life.
And, to be perfectly honest, if you're such a stupid little shit to do something like this, you deserve it.
Apple is going to eat this kid alive. God but people are fucking morons.
Good like finding another job ever again, dumbass.
The reason to respond is to preserve your use of the copyright. If you're losing some value from your work by it being posted, then you may respond.
Apple isn't taking this down to protect the copyright. The take down is to prevent knowledge. They're not losing any sales to the code; they're losing sales to the information that can be gained from it. The difference is significant.
And now this intern has ruined life for all other interns in the company - past, present, and future. I'm sure all of the current interns have gotten a "leak like this guy and we'll ruin you" speech by now, and I bet web crawlers are already trained on past employees and interns looking for a hint of anything similar. Future interns will have to sign away even more of their rights, be locked down even harder, and feel like a prisoner while they're working. Thanks, asshole, for ruining the intern experience for everyone.
Shit, this is AWESOME! Give him 40 hours at the titty-bar of his choice. I mean, given that he worked at Apple, he is probably An Tremendous Homosexual - but still. He should duly rewarded for pissing the face of a notorious walled garden.
TOO BAD, FAGGOTS! JUST LOL!
Maybe hire a more experienced software engineer next time.
All this time I thought it walked out on it's own!
Yep, but all those people committing piracy, are looking forward to a glorious future working at industries that depend upon IP, because who else should one trust with such things?
"But I never would have bought it anyway". There that takes care of the "value" in Slashdot eyes.
FTFY
He was just told to 'go make some copies' without further instructions, and proceeded to copy some random files onto a public-facing website. Not his fault he didn't understand.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
If this guy gets caught, the punishment he gets will make him wish he was "just" a rapist.
Avantgarde Hebrew science fiction
... so he never works in silicon valley again!
Really? Let's try that again.
Let's say you're a programmer that contributes code to the BSD project. Steve Jobs got ahold of the entire corpus of years of your work, and relicensed it as their own proprietary work, making it to monetize for themselves.
So when you discover this, you're going to say "OH WELL, Looks like it's out there! I guess I'll just purchase a copy of my own software because I was too stupid to license it otherwise and therefore have no recourse!"
Fucking NOPE. Apple has rolled billions worth of BSD research and development into their source code.
I'm not sure who taught Steve Jobs to believe that he's entitled to other peoples' work for free without their consent, but where I come from that's called SLAVERY, you stupid fuck for using the BSD license.
Apple is completely within their rights to claim your code, and to sue anyone who's been a part of it for everything they're worth, just for ROUNDING the corners on their PHONES.
That wasn't a "cute little mistake". IANAL but I will be shocked if Apple doesn't deploy their own para-military force, and manipulate laws in multiple countries to manipulate IP laws and avoid paying taxes.
This kind of bullshit enrages me (could you tell?), and no, Steve, you're not part of some "enlightened" culture when you fucking steal from others. I hope they throw the legacy that this piece of shit wrought.
I beat he or she voted berine and is a dirty communist-lite while enjoying stupidly high entry level wages. "Computers should run free software!" ..."also pay me lots of money so I can afford San Fransisco and $5 coffee."
Yes, it was an intern in this case, but in reality it could have just as easily been a permanent FTE, a contractor, or whomever with an agenda.