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iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online in 'Biggest Leak in History'

57 points by jbegley 9y ago

scarface74 9y ago
Biggest Leak in history? Bigger than the Windows source code leak? The hacker community that really wants to discover a security vulnerability has already reverse engineered the code. Even the article stated as much. Levin said the code appears to be the real iBoot code because it aligns with code he reverse engineered himself.
- trentnelson 9y ago
  Technically three Windows source code leaks: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and the "Windows Research Kernel" (Windows 2003). All moot given that the biggest leak in history was obviously the Falcon 4.0 source code.
coldcode 9y ago
Hardly biggest leak in history. I doubt there is much here that people don't already know, its an older version, and the important part of the system is in hardware.
willstrafach 9y ago
The current title is inaccurate: > iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online in 'Biggest Leak in History' It implies more than what actually happened, which was that code allegedly for the iOS stage 2 bootloader appeared online. Certainly amusing to look through and probably considered a big deal within Apple, but vague title currently implies something very different.
danjoc 9y ago
LineageOS iPhone when? It would be interesting to see iPhone hardware running a better OS.
- earenndil 9y ago
  Requires a bootrom exploit. There actually was afaik back in the iphone 3gs and before days a way to install android on ios.
  - jsjohnst 9y ago
    The most famous bootrom exploit I think was the one named “24kpwn”. Here’s some background on it: https://medium.com/@freakyn00b/understanding-24kpwn-c4d33bf048e6 https://medium.com/@freakyn00b/understanding-24kpwn-c4d33bf0...
    - willstrafach 9y ago
      That was a fun one to work on :) iPhone Wiki is a better source though: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/0x24000_Segment_Overflow https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/0x24000_Segment_Overflow
      - jsjohnst 9y ago
        That’s the link I was looking for, but couldn’t find for some reason. Thanks dude!
ec109685 9y ago
This is such a click bait title. It was leaked last year! https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/71p5qs/newsiboot_bootrom_ibss_ibec_illb_source_codes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/71p5qs/newsiboot...
londons_explore 9y ago
It's just the bootloader. It doesn't have an awful lot of functionality. There might be exploits to be found, but probably not many, and most would probably require disassembly of the phone to access test interfaces etc.

57 points by jbegley 9y ago

Biggest Leak in history? Bigger than the Windows source code leak? The hacker community that really wants to discover a security vulnerability has already reverse engineered the code. Even the article stated as much. Levin said the code appears to be the real iBoot code because it aligns with code he reverse engineered himself.

trentnelson 9y ago
Technically three Windows source code leaks: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and the "Windows Research Kernel" (Windows 2003). All moot given that the biggest leak in history was obviously the Falcon 4.0 source code.

coldcode 9y ago

Hardly biggest leak in history. I doubt there is much here that people don't already know, its an older version, and the important part of the system is in hardware.

willstrafach 9y ago

The current title is inaccurate: > iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online in 'Biggest Leak in History' It implies more than what actually happened, which was that code allegedly for the iOS stage 2 bootloader appeared online. Certainly amusing to look through and probably considered a big deal within Apple, but vague title currently implies something very different.

danjoc 9y ago

LineageOS iPhone when? It would be interesting to see iPhone hardware running a better OS.

earenndil 9y ago
Requires a bootrom exploit. There actually was afaik back in the iphone 3gs and before days a way to install android on ios.
- jsjohnst 9y ago
  The most famous bootrom exploit I think was the one named “24kpwn”. Here’s some background on it: https://medium.com/@freakyn00b/understanding-24kpwn-c4d33bf048e6 https://medium.com/@freakyn00b/understanding-24kpwn-c4d33bf0...
  - willstrafach 9y ago
    That was a fun one to work on :) iPhone Wiki is a better source though: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/0x24000_Segment_Overflow https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/0x24000_Segment_Overflow
    - jsjohnst 9y ago
      That’s the link I was looking for, but couldn’t find for some reason. Thanks dude!

ec109685 9y ago

This is such a click bait title. It was leaked last year! https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/71p5qs/newsiboot_bootrom_ibss_ibec_illb_source_codes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/71p5qs/newsiboot...

londons_explore 9y ago

It's just the bootloader. It doesn't have an awful lot of functionality. There might be exploits to be found, but probably not many, and most would probably require disassembly of the phone to access test interfaces etc.