I mean, will this work after Apple patches their OS so you can't breakout of the application sandbox? This is pretty cool and all but it seems to me like a bug. Something they should report to Apple (or Google/Microsoft) get some sort of reward from a bug bounty program and be on their way.
I thought the app sandbox was designed to specifically prevent app makers from accessing the hardware in unauthorized ways. (I am guessing Android and Windows phones have similar ways of controlling access to the hardware). This seems like the exact use case that should be stopped.
Indeed. "iPhone app I downloaded running custom drivers on my network hardware" is exactly the sort of non-evil thing the sandbox is supposed to stop.
There is simply no way what they're doing is kosher with Apple, nor should it be. For a sandboxed application to run custom drivers on my hardware defies any notion of security.
Jailbroken phones where people have acknowledged the risk of running things outside the sandbox? Sure. Great.
I thought the app sandbox was designed to specifically prevent app makers from accessing the hardware in unauthorized ways. (I am guessing Android and Windows phones have similar ways of controlling access to the hardware). This seems like the exact use case that should be stopped.