Jailbreak requests for copyright infringement not confirmed

This week the focus was not so much on the release of jailbreak tools, but

unreasonable requests to jailbreak communities for violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

It all started with a tweet from cybersecurity researcher @siguza, which contained the iPhone encryption key: a set of random letters and numbers, meaning nothing for most people.

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Apple asked Twitter to remove the post,referring to the Copyright Act in the digital age, but then changed her mind and asked Twitter to restore the post. Also, the Reddit community received DMCA requests due to publications on the subrades of the checkra1n and unc0ver utilities. Jailbreak does not violate the DMCA, therefore it is not an offense. Of course, Apple is doing everything possible to cripple the jailbreak community, but still, the company's behavior seems strange.

Circumstances gave rise to the idea that the thirda non-Apple side could troll the community, causing conflict. However, representatives of Reddit did not say who initiated the requests. (Reddit later restored the themes checkra1n and unc0ver in a jailbreak discussion, adding that they did not receive requests to delete publications at all.)