Comex Posts Q&A on Reddit About His Jailbreaking Experience

The coder Comex is widely known for his favourite JailbreakMe jailbreaks. He has been profiled by Forbes, and also won a 2011 Pwnie Award for ‘Best Client Side Bug’. solon recently, he tweeted discover of his upcoming internship at Apple. Now, Comex has posted a Q&A on Reddit, responsive questions from users most his undergo with jailbreaking.

Here are a some snippets of questions asked and answers provided by Comex:

Question: After your internship with Apple and after iOS 5 is officially released, module you continue to support the jailbreak accord by providing exploits?

Comex: No.

Edit: But I’ll poverty to jailbreak my phone, so I wish someone finds them :p

Q: Why an intern function though? It seems same you could circularize a regular function at apple. How has the core jailbreak dev teams responded to you feat to impact for apple?

Comex: I don’t undergo if I’d poverty to do that- I’ve never had a employ before and I don’t undergo what it’s like- and I impart to go backwards to college soon. Mostly with congratulations.

Have you prefabricated some money from the jb scene?

Comex: I’ve prefabricated a good amount of money finished donations, which is mostly existence utilised to support clear for college. JailbreakMe 2.0 was same $40,000; 3.0 was $15,000 (not quite trusty ground it decreased).

The jailbreak accord took a huge impact when you left. Do you conceive the astir players crapper outsmart you now that you’re activity for the another team, or are you Apple’s test resolution to their jailbreak problem?

Comex: There are a aggregation of smart grouping employed for Apple already; maybe I crapper help, but I doubt I crapper stop grouping from uncovering exploits.

Have you met Steve Jobs?

Comex: I wish.

Can you give some brainwave on how apple views the Jailbreak communities mods?

Comex: I hit no idea.

As a huge unstoppered aggregation for them to steal take ideas from.

Comex: I certainly don’t mind. Jailbreak accord puts an intent in face of grouping with a shitty implemenation; Apple polishes it to the point where it crapper be an OS feature. I don’t undergo whether Apple actually pays attention to jailbreak apps, but wager App Store, copy and paste, multitasking, etc…

Firstly, ground did you opt to intend involved in specifically the iPhone jailbreaking scene, what was it attracted you to the iPhone? Secondly, did you ever set discover to be a coder or was it just something that interested you and found you had a nack for? Finally, in regards to the PDF fault utilised for the JailbreakMe.com jailbreak, where on connector did you intend the brilliant intent for it?

Comex: I had one… and it was a figure that (a) had a aggregation of functionality, (b) had a pleasant and flexible UNIX OS, (c) already had an astir intoxicant community, and (d) was really cool. :p

I never desired to be a black headgear hacker, but I did enjoy hacking (originally SQL shot and crap) as a natural spreading of programming.

FreeType was digit of the inferior unnatural unstoppered source components of iOS.

Do you hit some regrets?

Comex: I should hit worked on these jailbreaks more consistently, and free them more quickly; I’ve had individual exploits immobile on me that could hit been utilised in a jailbreak if I was quicker at packaging.

What, likewise money, prefabricated you fling to the another side?

Comex: It’s not most money. A super part of my need to jailbreak was ever the challenge; the internship module be a newborn variety of challenge.

Will the underway jailbreaks and/or the site disappear?

Comex: No, I’ll assistance them over to MuscleNerd or chpwn or whoever module take care of them.

So for those worried most the future of jailbreaks, Comex module be expiration on his impact to The iPhone Dev Team. I’m astonied he didn’t attain more from donations for his jailbreaks, but nonetheless $45,000 is not pocket modify either. Good phenomenon at your internship, Comex.

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