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He is looking for an internship. Hello, Apple, hire him already.
If Apple hires him, that will be the last time you see a jailbreak tool come from him.
JailbreakMe’s sophistication is on par with that of Stuxnet
"After Allegra released JailbreakMe 2 last year, Apple upped its game another notch, randomizing the location of code in memory so that hackers can’t even locate commands to hijack them." Another security method, and one that some people ripped on Apple for not including for so long. Now they put it in and it's a paranoid response to stop jailbreakers?
Listen, there's no legal issue with jailbreaking. That issue has been settled, as much as it can be without a lawsuit and a court ruling. But Apple is under no obligation to make it easy, or to leave gaping security holes for jailbreak tools to waltz through. We need to stop acting like Apple is persecuting jailbreakers, when what they're really doing is fixing security holes.
Jailbreakme is an amazingly elegant tool. Although I seriously doubt they will, Apple should definitely hire him. His products show that he understands design as well as anyone on their payroll now. That combined with his obvious coding skills make him the ideal Apple engineer.
Not to mention, it may solve their jailbreak problem, at least temporarily.
The kind of control Apple seeks (to what purpose is irrelevant) is doomed to fail. You simple cannot control a device once it's in the possession of an 'adversary' (which in this context seems to be the owner of the device). Once the attacker (again, the owner of the phone who wants to jailbreak) has possession of the phone, he has complete control over it. I wonder if Apple has this internal posture that they should…
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If Apple hires him, that will be the last time you see a jailbreak tool come from him.
There's lots of people that work at Apple that help the JB community. Some of them also work on OSX86.
If you can, then Apple explicitly working to close security holes, not providing a sponsored jailbreak solution, and letting people work on exploiting security holes, seems pretty damn absurd.
The kind of control Apple seeks (to what purpose is irrelevant) is doomed to fail. You simple cannot control a device once it's in the possession of an 'adversary' (which in this context seems to be the owner of the device). Once the attacker (again, the owner of the phone who wants to jailbreak) has possession of the phone, he has complete control over it. I wonder if Apple has this internal posture that they should…
Comex and others are finding bugs, and Apple are fixing them. Not because Apple are irrational control freaks, but because the bugs they find and use to jailbreak the devices are extremely serious security holes . To not fix them would be incredibly irresponsible.
Jailbreakme is an amazingly elegant tool. Although I seriously doubt they will, Apple should definitely hire him. His products show that he understands design as well as anyone on their payroll now. That combined with his obvious coding skills make him the ideal Apple engineer.
He designed none of the interface.
> '... his obvious coding skills ...'
A lot of the time, a person's coding skills are judged by how readable their code is, and how well they utilize SCM. Also, to be an Apple engineer you want extensive experience with Objective-C. https://github.com/comex/star_
Now I don't mean to say comex is a bad programmer at all, the stuff he writes is amazing, I just feel like he wouldn't make a good Apple engineer.
The kind of control Apple seeks (to what purpose is irrelevant) is doomed to fail. You simple cannot control a device once it's in the possession of an 'adversary' (which in this context seems to be the owner of the device). Once the attacker (again, the owner of the phone who wants to jailbreak) has possession of the phone, he has complete control over it. I wonder if Apple has this internal posture that they should…