I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Really, what the government is asking Apple to do is to make every individual who uses an iPhone susceptible to hacking by bad people, foreign governments, and anyone who wants.
A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.
To be clear, any attempt to hack or to do anything nefarious is wrong and illegal.
I was hooked in before hacking was even illegal.
No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses.
It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.
I've really enjoyed working together with Apple to help launch their new streaming service. It is really cool to see Apple getting involved.
Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.