Comex answers questions about his position at Apple
Over on Reddit, Jailbreak developer Comex has been answering a lot of questions about his upcoming internship at Apple. Many users have been wondering whether or not this will effect jailbreak and how hard it will be for other jailbreak developers to find exploits with Comex working for the other guys now.
There are a lot of smart people working for Apple already; maybe I can help, but I doubt I can stop people from finding exploits.
Even though Comex won't (read: can't) participate the jailbreak community anymore, there are still tons of jailbreak developers out there more than willing to step up to the challenge of finding new exploits. The jailbreak cat and mouse game is far from over. Comex says he still wants to jailbreak his iPhone so he still hopes they'll find those exploits too.
You can hit the Reddit link below to read the entire thread of Q & A's with Comex.
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From the AMA, about whether Apple's legal team has bound him with any terms about his post-Apple exploits (no pun intended):
Beautiful answer.
He sold out. Plain and simple.
Anyone would have done the something!
Sold out? lets see here, paid or unpaid an internship like this can help him further his professional goals. maybe even land himself a high paying job after the internship is over. Or he can sit at home and use his free time for YOUR benefit? If he is selling out then that makes you pious if not selfish.
"The Man" knew what he was doing and when I say "The Man" I'm not talking about Comex Greed is good.
His exploits are usually the ones that provide untethering which makes jailbreaking an attractive option. Apple just nuke this possibility and there does not appear to be anyone on the horizon who is quite as savy with userland exploits and untethering.
or this could be the opportunity another dev-hacker has been waiting for. I would like to think that maybe some one else could step up and be creative enough to find new solutions as the platform moves ahead. If an artist goes from painting to sculpting it doesn't mean NO ONE will be able to paint.
I'm sorry but Jailbreakme.com made all the other Jailbreak tools look like Windows.. if you don't get where I'm coming from.. Mac OSX approach to solving a problem is PUSH a BUTTON.. Windows approach? Plug a device, Push ten buttons, Now do this, then do that, now in 5 seconds make sure u do this.. oh.. BRICKED!!.
Think apple made him un jail break his phone?