“Charlie Miller, the serial hacker who has exposed more than a dozen critical vulnerabilities in Apple’s Mac and mobile platforms, was kicked out of the company’s iOS developer program after publishing an application that demonstrated a serious new bug in iPhones and iPads,” Dan Goodin reports for The Register.
“Miller’s InstaStock app, which was accepted into the iTunes App Store in September, bills itself as a program that tracks stock prices in real time,” Goodin reports. “On Monday, Miller announced that the app contained a secret hack that bypassed protections built into iOS devices that prevent code from running on them unless it has been signed by Apple’s official cryptographic seal.”
Goodin reports, “A few hours after Miller disclosed the hidden payload, he received an email informing him that Apple was terminating him from the iOS Developer Program for violation of a clause in the program’s license in which he agreed he wouldn’t ‘hide, misrepresent or obscure any features, content, services or functionality’ of applications he submitted. ‘They had every legal reason to do it, but i still think it’s rude,’ Miller told The Reg. ‘It’s going to hinder my ability to help them secure their products.'”
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