What if BigBoss got Hacked?
Not only that. . .but what if BigBoss got ‘paid off’. I say this not as an attempt to question his integrity. . .but more as a hypothetical. Hackers make money(and lots of it) and even though you probably hate to admit it, everyone has a price. What would happen if a hacker got into BigBoss’s system or even worse, what if BigBoss got paid off?
Since the majority of the users that download jailbroken iPhone applications do it through Cydia. . .this makes him a huge target for hackers. The 14 year old kid that learns how to disguise a backdoor for a cracked version of ‘Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D’ is one thing. . .but a highly skilled hacker breaking into the ‘main repository’ that Cydia uses is something serious. The same could be said about the machine that BigBoss uses, if a hacker gets into his machine and sits and watches for a while. . .they will gather enough data to gain access to the repository itself.
It’s true that different applications are hosted on different repositories, but again it’s just going to take a skilled hacker to hook a trojan via a required package tweak or something similar. And if not, simply infesting a self hosted BigBoss application is bad enough. I don’t know the raw numbers, but I can only imagine there are tens of thousands of downloaded jailbroken iPhone applications every day.
On the other hand, what if a hacker had enough money to pay off BigBoss. Again, not to dismiss the legitimacy of BigBoss and all the work he has done for the community. But I know you can’t trust everyone, and all it’s going to take is the right price to break someone.
In theory the same could happen with Installer(and the RipDev team). Since it’s a team of developers the chances of something like this happening increases.
It makes you think who is responsible for such actions if it were to happen. Could someone sue BigBoss or the RipDev team? If so, can any of them actually be held responsible for damages(whether it be hardware or financial)? Would it be treated like someone getting ripped off in a drug deal? I’m not saying that this is something that has happened or will happen. . .I just think it’s something to think about.