Comex, the hacker during the back of jailbreaking collection similar to JailbreakMe as well as Spirit as well as shortly to be Apple intern, is really active on Reddit as well as not long ago concluded to do an IAmA on the site. An IAmA is reddit verbalise for a Q&A session. Although he was vehement all by the session, as partial of his stipulate with Apple he didn’t answer any questions about his internship with the company.
The initial few questions that greeted him were of march about possibly he would go on to await the jailbreak village in the future, the answer to that was a true no. He did contend that he wouldn’t desert jailbreaking altogether, as well as would wish his peers in the jailbreaking village to find some-more exploits in the future. The jailbreak village together with devs as well as jailbreakers have mostly been certain of his pierce to Apple, that even he was astounded to see. He additionally combined that all his work on jailbreaking would be handed possibly to Muslenerd or chpwn.
The starting indicate for his work on the PDF feat used in JailbreakMe was FreeType – an open source rise engine enclosed in iOS devices. He additionally reveals that he had detected multiform exploits in iOS, though they were patched prior to he could operate them for jailbreaks:
“I should have worked on these jailbreaks some-more consistently, as well as expelled them some-more quickly; I’ve had multiform exploits bound on me that could have been used in a jailbreak if you was quicker during packaging.”
Comex displays mindfulness towards WebOS and plans to get TouchPad shortly as well as would be operative on what he calls a ‘fun low turn project’. In further to the jailbreaks, Comex additionally contributed to the Wii homebrew community.
Although income wasn’t his proclivity to burst in to the jailbreak scene, he says he done $ 55,000 in donations, that he would operate to compensate college fees. He is currently on leave from college (Brown University) as well as plans to stick on subsequent year. This is the reason he didn’t opt for a pursuit during Apple, and instead chose to intern.
On Apple borrowing ideas from jailbreak hacks as well as tweaks, he says:
“I positively do not mind. Jailbreak village puts an thought in front of people with a crappy implemenation; Apple polishes it to the indicate where it can be an OS feature. you do not know possibly Apple essentially pays courtesy to jailbreak apps, though see App Store, duplicate as well as paste, multitasking, etc…”
He shares the same indebtedness for Steve Jobs similar to you all do, as well as hopes to encounter him a little day. For the finish Q&A thread strike the source link.
[via Reddit]
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