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Apple targets jailbreaking in lawsuit against iOS virtualization company, Ars Technica

Apple targets jailbreaking in lawsuit against iOS virtualization company, Ars Technica


      Apple expands lawsuit –

             

Corellium responds, says Apple is “demonizing” jailbreaking with new DMCA claim.

      

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(****************************************An image from Apple's lawsuit against Corellium displays how Corellium's service provides a copy of the iPhone operating system.Enlarge/An image from Apple’s lawsuit shows a real iPhone X and Corellium’s service running a virtual iPhone X.

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An image from Apple's lawsuit against Corellium displays how Corellium's service provides a copy of the iPhone operating system.Apple has expanded a lawsuit against an iOS virtualization company, claiming that its actions facilitate jailbreaking and violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibition on circumvention of copyright-protection systems.********************** Describe DMCA exemptions in general as “too narrow and too complex for most technology users. “

Corellium bypasses encryption and hardware checks, Apple says

Apple argues that Corellium’s alleged DMCA violations enable both violations of Apple’s copyright and the spread of security vulnerabilities.

Apple’s updated lawsuit notes that iOS uses “technological protection measures that control access to and protect Apple’s exclusive rights in its software , “such as” measures that prevent iOS and iTunes from being installed onto non-Apple-manufactured hardware. ” Apple said iOS also has “software restrictions that prevent unfettered access to the operating system,” for example by “prevent [ing] a user from modifying the operating system.”Corellium violates Apple’s rights by “enabl [ing] its users to circumvent the security protections that Apple has implemented to protect its copyrighted works and its exclusive rights in those works, “Apple’s updated lawsuit says.

Apple alleges that Corellium’s sale of iOS replicas without Apple’s authorization amounts to “trafficking in technologies, products, or services” Designed to bypass or remove technological measures that control access to Apple’s copyrighted works, in violation of Section 2019. Those Apple technological measures “include encryption, hardware checks, and server checks that prevent iOS from being installed and executed on non-Apple-authorized hardware, and prevent unfettered access to the iOS operating system.”

While Apple accused Corellium of facilitating jailbreaking, the alleged jailbreaking is of virtual iOS devices and not physical iPhones and iPads. Apple wrote:

The Apple Corellium Product also provides users with the ability to “jailbreak” virtual iOS devices. Jailbreaking refers to the act of modifying iOS to circumvent the software restrictions that prevent unfettered access to the operating system. Corellium openly markets the ability of its technology to “jailbreak … any version” of iOS. Corellium provides its jailbreaking technology to all its customers, regardless of their purpose.Apple also said that Corellium’s product “makes modifications to iOS that allows it to be installed on, and run from, Corellium-developed or Corellium-operated hardware. Such modifications include disabling loadable firmware validation, disabling self-verification of the FIPS [Federal Information Processing Standard] module, adding Corellium software to the ‘trust cache,’ and instructing the restore tool not to contact Apple servers for kernel / device tree / firmware signing. “: Apple: Corellium doesn’t care about securityWhile Corellium argues that its software helps companies identify iOS bugs for the purpose of improving the product and protecting users, Apple Claims that Corellium “makes no effort whatsoever to confine use of its product to good-faith research and testing of iOS.”Apple cited a************************** Motherboard articlethat describes Azimuth Security as Corellium’s first customer. Apple wrote:The Motherboard article reported that Azimuth sells a range of tools that exploit flaws in software. Azimuth’s customers reportedly include foreign governments, including foreign intelligence agencies. And when areporter recently askedAzimuth’s founder Mark Dowd, whether Azimuth had ever reported a bug found using Corellium to Apple, he answered, “no.” Contrary to its lofty rhetoric, Corellium in fact sells Apple’s technology and the ability to circumvent the security measures embedded in that technology for its own profit, and makes no effort to ensure its customers are engaged solely in good-faith security research.

iFixit founder Kyle Wiens, who has testified to the US Copyright Office in support of legalized jailbreaking
for the purpose of fixing products, wrote yesterday that Apple’s complaint is ” a dangerous DMCA lawsuit. If Apple wins, “the damage will reverberate beyond the security community and into the world of repair and maintenance,” Wiens wrote.

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