Recruitment? Taurine jailbreak developer CoolStar joins Apple and makes previously paid plug-ins open source

Thanks to netizens Meie Yang and Wuai 317 for submitting clues! According to news on May 6, friends who have used Apple devices for a long time may more or less understand the concept of "jailbreaking" - a technical means to obtain root permissions for iOS devices. As the functions of iOS are increasing and improving day by day, fewer and fewer friends are still playing "jailbreak", and they may have heard of a name - CoolStar.

This developer has developed several popular jailbreak tools for iOS & iPadOS 11-14, including Electra, Chimera, Odyssey, Taurine, etc. He briefly tried to make an iOS/iPad OS 15 jailbreak tool called Cheyote, but he later abandoned the project and left the community. Today, he posted on the official Sileo/Odyssey team Discord channel and announced that he would start working for Apple on Tuesday, but did not disclose his specific work content. It is worth mentioning that the goal that many jailbreak developers strive for is "recruitment" - to be hired by Apple. CoolStar also announced that he was not allowed to continue working on jailbreak-related projects, so he open sourced several previous plug-in codes and removed the DRM verification in order to Others take over the work. Ventana (iOS 8 -> 14)ClassicFolders 3 (iOS 13 & 14)ClassicFolders 2 (iOS 7 -> 12)3DSwitcher 2 (iOS 9 & 10) 13) : https://github.com/coolstar/anemone3" target="_blank">ClassicLockScreen (iOS 7 -> 9)Anemone 3 Settings AppAnemone 3 (Optional Extensions)CoolStar said that The decision to make all content open source is to "treat paying users correctly" because if no one else takes over, these plug-ins may never be updated again, because these jailbreak tools will not be updated until 2021 at the latest. Released in 2017, it requires an older version of Xcode to run .

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