Apple apparently isn’t giving up on this legal battle
Apple won’t give up its fight against Corellium
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Tech giantApplehas apparently kickstarted a new legal battle withCorelliumdespite apparently settling with thecybersecurityfirm over its original lawsuit.
At the center ofApple’s complaint is a virtualized environment created by Correlium that enables security researchers to hunt for bugs, instead of jailbreaking an actualiPhone.
In December 2020 a judge dismissed Apple’s claims that alleged Corellium’s virtualized environment infringed its copyright.
According toCyberscoop, Apple has now filed an appeal challenging the December dismissal, drawing criticism from security researchers.
Apple deal?
Last week, theWashington Post reportedthat the two companies had reached a settlement as far as Corellium circumventing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to create its software environment was concerned.
Many thought that it was a sign that Apple was dropping its lawsuit against Corellium. However, Apple has now dispelled these doubts through its notice of appeal for copyright infringement, much to the chagrin of ethical hackers.
“It raises the specter that all sorts of security research activity could be vulnerable to copyright infringement claims. It’s incredibly chilling that Apple is pursuing this,” Blake Reid, a professor at University of Colorado’s law school toldCyberscoop.
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Apple’s move comes even as it vowed towork with members of the security establishmentto help lend legitimacy to its controversial new child-abuse image scanning function. Interestingly, Corellium has announced a$5000 initiativeto probe Apple’s new system.
ViaCyberscoop
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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