REvil's hack is about more than a trough of PDFs: It's a front in the shadow war waged between Apple and indie repair experts who say they just want to help consumers fix their gadgets. https://t.co/xaX3B10m5y
— Motherboard (@motherboard) May 10, 2021
"Our business relies on stuff like this leaking," Louis Rossmann, owner of the Rossmann Repair Group, which specializes in board level repair, said in a phone call. "This is going to help me recover someone's data. Someone is going to get their data back today because of this."
— Damon Beres ? (@dlberes) May 10, 2021
The hack reveals a significant point of tension in the Right to Repair debate: Advocates say manufacturers should have to make documents like these available. Until such time, leaks fill a major void. https://t.co/6ckAkLjk6R
— Damon Beres ? (@dlberes) May 10, 2021
Hackers recently released schematics for Apple products—documents that show the layouts of motherboards that would otherwise take an absurd amount of time to reverse-engineer. Repair experts say they’ll gladly use them, since they get nothing from Apple https://t.co/6ckAkLjk6R
— Damon Beres ? (@dlberes) May 10, 2021
Beyond excited to make my @motherboard debut today with a story about… … … motherboards https://t.co/6ckAkLjk6R
— Damon Beres ? (@dlberes) May 10, 2021
By leaking MacBook schematics, a group of hackers made the lives of repair professionals much easier. https://t.co/7C0mrnx1m5
— VICE (@VICE) May 10, 2021
How a Hacking Group Did Apple Repair Professionals an Accidental Favor https://t.co/SiREVBnGFu
— Asher Wolf (@Asher_Wolf) May 11, 2021
Hacked and leaked schematics won't help you make a counterfeit MacBook. They will help repair experts recover lost data, though. https://t.co/X8VmCpWNDS
— VICE (@VICE) May 11, 2021
Hacked and leaked schematics won't help you make a counterfeit MacBook. They will help repair experts recover lost data, though. https://t.co/8QOltQ00B4
— Motherboard (@motherboard) May 10, 2021
How a Hacking Group Did Apple Repair Professionals an Accidental Favor https://t.co/loKGUPZB6W
— Irvin Lemus (@InfoSecIrvin) May 10, 2021