Is it great? The lawsuit is Apple trying to enforce the iCloud EULA to stop reverse engineering. While NSO Group created hacking tools, and then did some questionable things with them, do we really want those inane licenses no one reads, and everyone scrolls down to hit [agree]; do we really want them to legally binding? Put another way, if it was someone HN
liked, would we still say this is actually good? Because compared to the corporation known as Apple, NSO Group and its parent corporation are still "a little guy", and this move really doesn't seem like a good thing. Not for hackers in the HN definition for hackers, ie highly motivated tinkerers.
This community features not just fans of reverse engineering, but number of practitioners, eg the popular Nvidia TSEC key extraction that was featured recently[0]. The defendant's actions make them an easy target, but, like the ACLU protecting the civil rights of murderers, because we still live in a nation of laws, I don't see this as great. This is a continuation of Apple's continued use of lawsuits to silence any challenges to their marketing of being the secure computer choice (eg Apple suing Corellium[1]) rather than their products actually being secure.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29315378
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28219278
This community features not just fans of reverse engineering, but number of practitioners, eg the popular Nvidia TSEC key extraction that was featured recently[0]. The defendant's actions make them an easy target, but, like the ACLU protecting the civil rights of murderers, because we still live in a nation of laws, I don't see this as great. This is a continuation of Apple's continued use of lawsuits to silence any challenges to their marketing of being the secure computer choice (eg Apple suing Corellium[1]) rather than their products actually being secure.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29315378
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28219278