Last week, the one who has recently gained popularity for showing videos demonstrating that he had jailbroken (not for freeing them), Luca Todesco said that it will be more difficult to jailbreak iOS 10, that everything he trusted no longer worked in the next mobile operating system of the apple. But MIT has discovered something that will not leave anyone indifferent: the iOS 10 kernel is not encrypted...
Why will it not leave anyone indifferent? Well, because it will be easier than security experts and hackers (good and bad) discover security flaws in iOS 10. If it is easier to find bugs, it will also be easier to find exploits that allow a tool to be released to jailbreak iOS 10 when it is released, which we remember is scheduled for autumn (for September, if there are no surprises).
Has Apple left the iOS 10 kernel unencrypted on purpose?
The movement is very strange. Security experts believe that Tim Cook and company have used this new strategy so that people can report security bugs that they can correct in future versions. Some of these experts say that security will not be compromisedIf not, it will only be easier to find bugs, but I, from the ignorance, I think it is the same: someone can see your weak point and not use it, but a malicious user will use it safely.
The reason why Apple has opened its code is unclear. One hypothesis from the security community is that someone within the company has "screwed it up like hell." But Levin and Solkin say there are reasons to think it may have been intentional. Encouraging more people to examine your code can result in more bugs being revealed to Apple so it can fix them.
Hacker Jonathan Zdziarski says he agrees with this hypothesis, he does not believe that Apple has forgotten to encrypt the kernel because such a serious failure would be like "forgetting to put doors to an elevator."
In the case of San BernardinoWhen Apple refused to offer help to the FBI to unlock the sniper's iPhone 5c, law enforcement sought and received help from third-party hackers, so the reason Apple has left the kernel unencrypted in iOS 10 could be to decrease the chances of these hackers selling security exploits to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
iOS 10 beta 1 was released last week, exactly 9 days ago, so we will still have to wait a long time to find out what is happening. They will likely leave the kernel unencrypted while the system is in beta, for the community to help fix security flaws, and re-encrypt it when the official version is released. We will know this in September, but we hope that it is true that security will not be compromised.
