Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is accused of wanting to destroy the public jailbreak solutions for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, something that is not exactly news for anyone. This time the accusation comes from a company called Corellium, which specializes in computer security, so it discovers iOS vulnerabilities.
Apple accused Corellium of developing software designed to analyze iOS and discover the problems that exist in the system, so that they can be exploited. Apple filed a lawsuit against Corellium in August, but in December added a copyright infringement complaint, complicating matters.
The CEO of Corellium is even more upset now, and claims that through this complaint regarding copyright infringement, Apple wants to destroy public jailbreak solutions. Apple directly accuses the company of allowing jailbreaking on iDevices, and of allowing others to do similar solutions for its phones.
"The filing states that because Corellium 'allows users to jailbreak' and 'has given one or more persons access ... to develop software that can be used to jailbreak,' Corellium is 'engaging in traffic' in violation of the DMCA . In other words, Apple says that anyone who provides a tool that allows others to jailbreak, and anyone who helps create such a tool, is in violation of the DMCA. Apple underscores this position, calling the jailbreak tool "illegal" and saying it's "designed to circumvent [the] same technological measures" as Corellium."
Apple is accused of using the lawsuit to try to destroy jailbreak solutions for iDevices, which it has actually been trying to do for years. Apple has been fighting against jailbreak solutions for years, and has sued various hackers, but it will never succeed in stopping the phenomenon, even if it has decreased in intensity in recent years.
