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iBoot Source Code Leak

From The Apple Wiki

On 7 February 2018 (2018-02-07), a user named "ZioShiba" leaked the source code for iBoot for iOS 9. The source code was confirmed to be genuine by Apple. Details of how it leaked were not disclosed. On the same day, Apple filed a DMCA takedown request to GitHub for the repository. Further takedown requests were filed for its forks.

A report by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai of Vice Motherboard found the leak was shared around in private for some time. It was in fact first shared publicly on 22 September 2017 (2017-09-22), through a Reddit post that was automatically deleted due to lack of karma from a throwaway account. The linked file, hosted on Mega, was taken down at some unknown point.

Devices Targeted

In the iBoot source code, there were files created for making devices that are capable of running iOS 9. These devices include:

Issues of Compiling The Source Code

According to Nyan_Satan's post on building iBoot, iBoot, and the SecureROM could not be built for devices newer than the A6 SoC targets due to "a lot of missing headers".

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