If you can’t beat them, join them. At least that seems to be Apple’s new mantra when it comes to patching jailbreak bugs according to Comex.
One of the more influential hackers in the jailbreak community, Comex believes Apple may have planted a hacker on the iPhone Dev Team. The move, if it turns out to be true, would explain Apple’s ability to patch jailbreak exploits before the iPhone Dev Team could release their software to the public.
Comex pointed out on Twitter that Apple managed to patch an exploit that was slated to be used in JailbreakMe 2.0. The weird thing is that the exploit has been around since 4.0.2 through until iOS 4.3, but Apple managed to patch it with iOS 4.3.1.
It is possible that Apple managed to discover the exploit independently; however, that wouldn’t be a sexy story, would it?
What do you think? Does Apple view the jailbreak community as a big enough threat that they’d send in a mole?
My money is on no.
Article Via Cult of Mac
If Apple wanted to, they could bring one or two jailbreakers onto their payroll and ruin the jailbreaking community. There really aren't that many hackers who are releasing JBs to my knowledge. $75,000/yr as a "security consultant" would be hard to turn down and it would cost Apple practically nothing. Right now they make $2 billion per year in App Store revenue. I'd imagine eliminating the ability to pirate apps would bring in at least an extra $100 million. $75,000 vs $100,000,000. That's a 133,000% return on their investment. Once it was ruled legal by the courts, I bet they started looking for other ways. If they have, I hope their products fall out of favor with the people who really matter and their products fall back into relative obscurity.
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Likeno? what a dumb post...
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LikeIf Apple is trying to keep iOS secure for itself and users then wouldn't you want them to be more proactive rather than reactive?
I also think Apple likes using the Jailbreak community. They are like unpaid volunteer employees. Let them spend their time to find these vulnerabilities, mean while a "the mole" gets that exploit info to Apple asap.
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LikeMy money is on yes they are trying to infiltrate. Why wouldn't they?
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LikeI hope not..Apple should give in and let the jailbreakers do their thing or allow us to access the apps w/o jailbreaking.
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LikeI would be the mole for an iPad 2.
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