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CYBER

Apple's Spy in the Jailbreak Community

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Double agents are a Cold War trope. An American spy has *gasp* secretly been working for the Soviets the whole time. These days, you’re more likely to run into a double agent in the world of corporate information technology. Sometimes hackers are selling company secrets while helping the very corporations they exploit.


Andrey Shumeyko was one such double agent. The hacker cruised the digital hangouts of people who bought and sold the secrets of Apple. Facing financial pressure and—to hear them tell it, a sense of guilt—they reached out to Apple.


Things didn’t go quite as Shumeyko expected.


This is the story of Apple’s Double Agent, brought to you by Motherboard’s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Tannen, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.0

It's a unit system.

0:12.0

I know this.

0:14.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:16.0

It tells her everything.

0:18.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

Eagle one.

0:23.1

The package is being delivered.

0:26.4

Double agents are a Cold War trope.

0:31.5

American spy has secretly been working for the Russians the whole time.

0:37.2

These days, you're more likely to run into a double agent in the world of corporate information technology.

0:42.3

Sometimes, hackers are selling company secrets while helping the very corporations they exploit.

0:45.1

Andrei Shumako was one such double agent.

0:49.5

The hacker cruised the digital hangouts of the people who bought and sold the secrets of Apple.

0:55.1

Then, facing financial pressure and, to hear him tell it a sense of guilt, he reached out to Apple.

0:58.4

Things didn't go quite as Chameco expected.

1:04.0

This is the story of Apple's double agent, brought to you by Motherboards Lorenzo Franceschi Bicorai.

1:06.6

I'm Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber. Lorenzo, thank you so much for coming on to the show again.

1:16.9

Thanks to you, Matt.

1:18.3

Always happy to be here.

1:19.9

All right.

1:20.1

So this is a pretty wild story that I think says a lot about hacker culture and kind of the way they think.

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