{"id":26311,"date":"2019-08-16T15:37:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T19:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26311"},"modified":"2022-08-04T15:52:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T19:52:22","slug":"apple-files-lawsuit-against-corellium-for-ios-virtualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/16\/apple-files-lawsuit-against-corellium-for-ios-virtualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Files Lawsuit Against Corellium for iOS Virtualization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juli Clover<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Apple today filed a lawsuit against Corellium<\/a>, a mobile device virtualization company that supports iOS. Corellium describes itself as the “first and only platform” that offers iOS, Android, and Linux virtualization on ARM.<\/p>

In the lawsuit, filed today in the Southern District of Florida, Apple accuses Corellium of copyright infringement for illegally replicating the operating system and applications that run on the iPhone and the iPad<\/a>.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Apple says it does not want to encumber “good-faith security research” but instead is aiming to end Corellium’s “unlawful commercialization of Apple’s valuable copyrighted works.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

\nThomas Brewster<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The startup is Corellium, first revealed by Forbes in February 2018, when the husband-and-wife founded company came out of stealth. Its product provides “virtualized” versions of iOS. For security researchers, such software-only versions of the Apple operating system are incredibly valuable. For instance, it’s possible to use Corellium to pause the operating system and analyze what’s happening at the code level. Some in the industry have called it “magic,” as it should help security researchers uncover vulnerabilities with greater ease and speed than having to work with a commercial iPhone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Various sites have called this “iOS emulation,” but it sounds to me more like running iOS on commodity hardware (i.e. iOS Hackintoshes) and then selling online access to the virtual machines. This seems really useful but almost certainly violates Apple’s copyright and\/or software license agreements.<\/p>\n\n

See also: Apple v. Psystar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n