• jard@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I honestly have to hand it to the kid who discovered this in the first place.

    Man’s still in high school, yet managed to find a high profile iMessage exploit while doing something he clearly enjoyed doing, knew the full value of what he’s discovered, sold it off to a company he likely surmised was frothing at the mouth for technology like this, and walked away with a huge wad of cash at the end of the day. He’s easily going places.

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      1 year ago

      It wasn’t really a hack though so much as it manipulated the way it identifies itself to Apples servers. Apple obviously changed something there in retaliation so it’s not working now, but depending on the severity of the change they could get around this.

      Honestly though it won’t last long. Eric has a history of being overly ambitious and it’s why Pebble failed.