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Re:The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking by damnfinecoffee on Friday June 30, 2017 @05:51PM (#14673797)
and yet none of the original devs get any credit or compensation for the ideas that were taken by apple which is kind of sad
Re:The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking by phoenix3200 on Friday June 30, 2017 @05:54PM (#14673807)
We sure didn't. I think one guy got hired by Apple because he came out with an innovative app switcher, and I know a few others who got internships there, but largely speaking, Apple took over a lot of features we put into play.

P.S. There's another reason why jailbreaks are few and far in between. There is close to no trust between the people who create the jailbreaks...I had several good exploits that became public without my permission.

Re:The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking by willstrafach on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:32PM (#14674232)
Man, you forgot the most annoying aspect: No CVE credit when fixes came out until around iOS 6 or 7.

Although not super consequential, it seemed petty to not do it.

Re:The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking by fareesh on Friday June 30, 2017 @06:02PM (#14673827)
I remember it being a practice at one time in various IRC and other online communities to share hashes of the exploit payloads between teams so that they knew whether or not there was one or more than one, and whether or not they were going to collaborate.
Re:The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking by willstrafach on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:30PM (#14674219)
Nah, hashes were public as proof (Usually later followed by a zip file matching the hash).

On IRC, we generally knew who did or did not have vulns and trusted not to BS. That implicit trust did make things difficult.

Re:The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking by snuxoll on Friday June 30, 2017 @06:51PM (#14674044)
Apple is pretty rampant about Sherlocking, this isn't new.
Re:The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking by hellbanner on Friday June 30, 2017 @09:04PM (#14674650)
Yep, and they've closed down apps like Twitter interfaces and IIRC a camera app because they rolled the use into their own iOS.