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Hacking and Securing iOS Applications
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Hacking and Securing iOS Applications

by Jonathan Zdziarski
January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
9h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Part I. Hacking

hack·er/ˈhakər/

Noun:

  1. An enthusiastic and skillful computer programmer or user.

  2. A person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.

The next two hundred pages some you are about to read provide detailed instructions that can be used to penetrate iOS and the software running on it. Many of the techniques demonstrated in this book explain vulnerabilities inherent to the basic design of the iOS operating system and the Objective-C runtime. They are intended for lawful, ethical penetration testing by developers to test and evaluate the security of the software they develop or audit. Neither the author, nor O’Reilly Media, nor anyone affiliated with this book condone or encourage the illegal use of these or any other techniques to commit criminal acts. These techniques were published in the interest of better equipping developers to design code that is more resistant to attack. The criminal community is already well aware of the inherent weaknesses of iOS applications. Withholding such information from ethical developers only serves to do more harm than good.

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