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Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online–If You Know Where

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Re: Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online–If You Know Where

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I’m afraid neither user or the repo exist on github - perhaps did you typo?

Odd. I’ll fix tonight.

It looks like they flagged that account for some reason -- new account. will edit when fixed.

Re: Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online–If You Know Where

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> After he evaluated the Time Capsule's contents, Bryant notified Apple about his findings, and the company's London security office eventually asked him to ship the Time Capsule back. > Bryant again reported his findings to Apple and returned the Mac Mini to them. Why the hell did he do that?! It's, like, the worst thing one can possibly do with these kinds of devices. Just publish stuff that doesn't have anyone's p…

IMO, it's a personal philosophy. Similar to why hackers choose to report vulnerabilities to bug bounties vs. release findings on sites like Hack Forums. We all know companies are predatory, and in many cases companies (looking right at you Google and Microsoft) continue to refuse to pay people for discovering, documenting and reporting high-severity vulnerabilities. That doesn't mean we as individuals forfeit our pri…

For vulnerabilities I can at least understand that — most of them can be used nefariously, and you also get a shitton of money if you report it. Publishing some company's trade secrets, though, would only hurt their bottom line, which isn't necessarily even a bad thing for a company that has orders of magnitude more money than it knows what to do with.

Re: Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online–If You Know Where

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Here's something i've used a few times. It's not using the phone, but rather a mac mini that's sitting in the corner. Quickly made this repo -- mind the mess. https://github.com/mr-boffin/fruit-native-ocr

I’m afraid neither user or the repo exist on github - perhaps did you typo?

Should work now.
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