Apple has extended the lawsuit against virtualization company Corellium to include illegal trading of the software. Corellium says that Apple is trying to make jailbreaking impossible with the lawsuit against the company.
The company is responding to the complaint that Apple has been running since August. “Apple’s latest addition to the lawsuit should alarm security researchers, app developers and jailbreakers,” Corellium wrote in an open letter. Corellium makes virtualization software that allows users to emulate iOS in order to find security vulnerabilities. In the first indictment, Apple said Corellium made a “nearly perfect digital copy” of iOS without being licensed to do so.
Apple was also concerned that Corellium customers would use the software to find leaks and resell them to companies like Zerodium, who offer a lot of money for such zero days. The charge has now been extended to include “unfair trading” because Corellium “allows users to jailbreak.”
Corellium denounces the new indictment. “In other words, Apple is saying here that anyone who makes a tool that allows users to jailbreak is in violation of copyright law.” The company refers to the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act or dmca.
According to Corellium, Apple also calls the recent jailbreak of iOS illegal. “Apple is using this case as a test balloon to prevent jailbreaking,” Corellium writes. “We are very disappointed with Apple’s continued demonization of jailbreaking. Many developers and researchers depend on jailbreaks to test software security.” The company says it is willing to “hit back hard” and would like to see Apple back in court.