{"id":75819,"date":"2018-02-08T10:43:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/the-critical-secret-code-that-allows-ios-devices-to-boot-up-has-leaked-online-and-apple-has-confirmed-its-real"},"modified":"2018-02-08T10:43:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:43:12","slug":"the-critical-secret-code-that-allows-ios-devices-to-boot-up-has-leaked-online-and-apple-has-confirmed-its-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/the-critical-secret-code-that-allows-ios-devices-to-boot-up-has-leaked-online-and-apple-has-confirmed-its-real","title":{"rendered":"The critical secret code that allows iOS devices to boot up has leaked online \u2014 and Apple has confirmed it\u2019s real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-critical-secret-code-that-allows-ios-devices-to-boot-up-has-leaked-online-and-apple-has-confirmed-its-real2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The code that allows iOS devices to boot up \u2014 and that Apple makes sure to keep private \u2014 has leaked online.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/a34g9j\/iphone-source-code-iboot-ios-leak\">report from Motherboard said<\/a> the code, aptly named iBoot, could be retrieved on GitHub, a hosting service for software developers to publish and share code.<\/p>\n<p>Apple later <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/github\/dmca\/blob\/master\/2018\/2018-02-07-Apple.md\">requested GitHub take down the code<\/a> \u2014 and in doing so confirmed the leaked code is real.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/biggest-leak-in-history-iphone-secret-iboot-code-made-public-2018-2\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/biggest-leak-in-history-iphon...2018&#45;2<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The code that allows iOS devices to boot up \u2014 and that Apple makes sure to keep private \u2014 has leaked online. A report from Motherboard said the code, aptly named iBoot, could be retrieved on GitHub, a hosting service for software developers to publish and share code. Apple later requested GitHub take down the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}