02-08-2018 , 09:51 PM
Quote:If you want a crash course in learning Arm code, now's your – hm, maybe not
The confidential source code to Apple's iBoot firmware in iPhones, iPads and other iOS devices has leaked into a public GitHub repo.
The closed-source code is top-secret, proprietary, copyright Apple, and yet has been quietly doing the rounds between security researchers and device jailbreakers on Reddit for four or so months, if not longer. Where exactly it came from, no one is sure for now.
Crucially, within the past day or so, someone decided to dump a copy of this secret sauce on popular developer hangout GitHub for all to find. Links to the files began circulating on Twitter in the past few hours.
The source was swiftly taken down following a DMCA complaint by Apple, which means the code must be legit or else Cupertino would have no grounds to strip it from the website. However, at least one clone of the software blueprints has remerged on GitHub, meaning you can find it if you look hard enough.
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