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dk001

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Ran across this in my Apple News feed (from Forbes).
Now, though, there's an answer: Corellium. The software can spin up virtual iPhones and iPads, amongst other Apple systems, all running the latest iOS operating system. From there, hackers and software developers can try whatever they want on the device, whether that's looking for security weaknesses or just testing their apps on different Apple hardware and software. It's possible to pause, rewind and fast-forward everything that's done on the device too, whilst Corellium reveals the internal code to help hackers discover what went wrong (or right) when they started tinkering. It won't matter if the software crashes; you can just create a new virtual Apple device in 10 minutes.

Wonder if this is as bad as it sounds it could be...
 

casperes1996

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Jan 26, 2014
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Ran across this in my Apple News feed (from Forbes).


Wonder if this is as bad as it sounds it could be...

Not at all
It sounds quite similar to Apple’s own Simulator app that is part of Xcode.
Besides hacker doesn’t mean that you’re bad. There are many white hat hackers that improve your digital security every day. And the same thing can be done for any other system.
 
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