Comex Answers Some Questions After Joining Apple About His Future Involvement In Jailbreak Community

Just a few days before the jailbreak community was surprised when one of its greatest value, Comex, joined Apple as an intern. Many have asked if you continue to develop tools to jailbreak for the future and if his people would be kept up to date.

As most regular readers may know, the Comex, the developer of the easiest jailbreaking is available: JailbreakMe. With this tool, which works with IOS 4.3.3 and below, any device, including iPad 2, can be easily unlocked in minutes. This is to use a completely independent jailbreak a PDF is used in Mobile Safari on each device to load, no need to connect to a computer.

Now the Comex has crossed the white side (or the dark side, depending on how you see things), there is no doubt that his relationship with the jailbreaking is the changing world. Not able to make new jailbreaking tools, as he made clear in his Q & A on Reddit less. Instead, it is the prowess of Apple, even though he believes that others take over and develop other tools:

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.

As for the current tool promises JailbreakMe, Comex can not be changed or dropped. However, has other prominent members of the jailbreak community, we hope, is given further growth:

 I’ll hand them over to MuscleNerd or chpwn or whoever will take care of them.

Earlier this month, the Comex profiled by Forbes magazine, revealing some of their personal data for the first time, including the fact that him to a vacation of the University was an intern (who has now received) to be pursued. Despite the success that the development of tools for the jailbreak, probably during his stay at Apple will continue to Comex plans to return to college after the internship is over, even if the Cupertino his permanent job:

I don’t know if I’d want to do that- I’ve never had a job before and I don’t know what it’s like- and I intend to go back to college soon.
Mostly with congratulations.

However, the Comex plans to continue jailbreaking the iPhone, even though the development of personal tools:

I’ll want to jailbreak my phone, so I hope someone finds them [vulnerabilities]

This is an excerpt from the Q & A:

Did you always set out to be a hacker or was it just something that interested you and found you had a [knack] for?

Comex: I never wanted to be a black hat hacker, but I did enjoy hacking (originally SQL injection and crap) as a natural extension of programming.

Your thoughts on Steve Jobs’ departure?

Comex: Really a shame; I was hoping to meet him some day, and, company direction aside, keynotes won’t be as entertaining without him.

Have you made any money from the jb scene?

Comex: I’ve made a good amount of money through donations, which is mostly being used to help pay for college. JailbreakMe 2.0 was like $40,000; 3.0 was $15,000 (not quite sure why it decreased).

Have you met Steve Jobs?

Comex: I wish.

Can you give any insight on how apple views the Jailbreak communitiesmods?

Comex: I have no idea.

As a huge open book for them to steal take ideas from.

Comex: I certainly don’t mind. Jailbreak community puts an idea in front of people with a crappy implemenation; Apple polishes it to the point where it can be an OS feature. I don’t know whether Apple actually pays attention to jailbreak apps, but see App Store, copy and paste, multitasking, etc…

Firstly, why did you choose to get involved in specifically the iPhone jailbreaking scene, what was it attracted you to the iPhone? Secondly, did you always set out to be a hacker or was it just something that interested you and found you had a nack for? Finally, in regards to the PDF bug used for the JailbreakMe.com jailbreak, where on earth did you get the brilliant idea for it?

Comex: I had one… and it was a device that (a) had a lot of functionality, (b) had a nice and flexible UNIX OS, (c) already had an active homebrew community, and (d) was really cool. :p

I never wanted to be a black hat hacker, but I did enjoy hacking (originally SQL injection and crap) as a natural extension of programming.

FreeType was one of the less studied open source components of iOS.

Do you have any regrets?

Comex: I should have worked on these jailbreaks more consistently, and released them more quickly; I’ve had several exploits fixed on me that could have been used in a jailbreak if I was quicker at packaging.

What, besides money, made you flip to the other side?

Comex: It’s not about money. A large part of my motivation to jailbreak was always the challenge; the internship will be a new sort of challenge.

It is unclear what the future looks like after this step, but many believe that we have not heard the last from the Comex. However, it is probably known by extreme secrecy by Apple for its long work placement.

As already mentioned, is not the first time that these big companies whoever created the jailbreak community. Geohot for example, hung on Facebook for a while ', and apart from the fact that the developer Peter Hajas jailbreak, jailbreak, the man behind the famous twist MobileNotifier also been created by Apple, and his most important work with Apple? The center of the fifth notification iOS