"CherryLoader was used to drop one of two privilege escalation tools, PrintSpoofer or JuicyPotatoNG, which would then run a batch file to establish persistence on the victim device," researchers Hady Azzam, Christopher Prest, and Steven Campbell said.
According to the official patent, the application for rights to the monitoring system were filed by Apple inventors Christopher Prest and Quin Hoellwarthback in October 2007. Just to give you an idea of how long ago that was, it was the same year that Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPhone.
Date: Feb 19, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Apple Invents Techniques for using Sapphire on iDevice Displays
Apple credits Christopher Prest, Dale Memering, David Pakula, Fletcher Rothkopf, Matthew Hill, Stephen Lynch and Tang Tan as the inventors of this patent application 20140023430 which was originally filed in Q3 2012.