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"You may ask, why am I doing this? The answer is: no f'ing idea :)"

Love it.

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No graphics. No problem. Great, open (source) system to test iOS internals and hack at the lower level stuff.

Also, nice way to test exploits, proof of concept backdoors, virii, trojans and the like without requiring major investment into the apple ecosystem.

Maybe, even the beginnings of a third option besides Android and iOS ?

Thanks!

Maybe Meego would be a good fit ?

But if she could get this working on Android it would be huge. I guarantee you could get a million off Kickstarter if you decided to be a little evil and stoke the fanboy flames a bit on Engadget/Reddit etc.

Dude (or female, not sure), that is and evil an brilliant idea. Even if it never made it on Kickstarter, it would certainly start a movement.

How could you test exploits, when the underlying os core is linux, not darwin, and all higher level libraries are completely different implementations as well?

Not to mention the complete lack of Sandboxing and Mandatory Code Signing?

As cool as this project is, virtualizing OS X -- or emulating an ARM system for iOS -- is much more likely to be useful for testing iOS internals / lower-level bits without requiring Apple hardware.

For example: http://www.iemu.org/index.php/Main_Page

Actual quote is "You may ask, why am I doing this? The answer is: no fucking idea :)"

Not sure why you would censor that when the author didn't.

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