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If Apple hires him, that will be the last time you see a jailbreak tool come from him.

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Depending on what they hire him for, it could also be the last time you see a jailbreak tool from anyone ;P.

For someone like you very familiar with the jailbreak community I find the lack of trust very disturbing :)

I am also very familiar with comex ;P.

Sure. And maybe we will see another story about alternative appstores some time later. ;)

That might be the best reason to hire him actually.

If he has philosophical disagreements with Apple's hardware/software model, why would he stop? Sure the government has one of his aliases, but he can always change to another one. He shouldn't; but, if he truly believes that iPhones should be jailbroken, he may either: refuse the offer, or continue to write jailbreaking software despite the consequences.

There's lots of people that work at Apple that help the JB community. Some of them also work on OSX86.

I do not believe you. Who? If you can't list their names, then it's pretty clear that Apple doesn't approve of their actions whatsoever.

If you can, then Apple explicitly working to close security holes, not providing a sponsored jailbreak solution, and letting people work on exploiting security holes, seems pretty damn absurd.

Actually I was specifically mentioning the OSx86 project. I just figured that if Apple insiders are helping the OSx86 project they might be helping the JB community as well.

No, you're right I can't list names. Apple does not approve of the OSx86 project.

Note that "let's run OSX on non-supported hardware of the same architecture" is very importantly distinct from "let's find and exploit security bugs"

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