This Mac hacker’s code is so good, corporations keep stealing it
by Corin Faife from The Verge - All Posts on (#62D2Q)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Patrick Wardle is known for being a Mac malware specialist - but his work has traveled farther than he realized.
A former employee of the NSA and NASA, he is also the founder of the Objective-See Foundation: a nonprofit that creates open-source security tools for macOS. The latter role means that a lot of Wardle's software code is now freely available to download and decompile - and some of this code has apparently caught the eye of technology companies that are using it without his permission.
Three different companies were found to be incorporating techniques from Wardle's work
Wardle will lay out his case in a presentation on Thursday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference with Tom McGuire, a cybersecurity researcher at Johns...