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YouTuber Jon Prosser has yet revenge a general consequence to Apple’s suit made against him and different suspect complete allegedly stealing iOS secrets. In his response, Prosser denied that he “planned aliases participated successful immoderate conspiracy aliases coordinated scheme” for the “purpose of injuring Apple.” However, Prosser admitted to signaling a FaceTime telephone showing unreleased iOS package and sharing gross from his YouTube videos astir the leaks pinch the personification who showed him the information. Prosser besides based on that the different suspect “is wholly responsible” for the alleged disclosure of waste and acquisition secrets.
Last July, Apple claimed successful its lawsuit that Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti had a “coordinated strategy to break into an Apple improvement iPhone, bargain Apple’s waste and acquisition secrets, and profit from the theft.” Ramacciotti, Apple alleged, showed Prosser accusation astir iOS from a improvement iPhone belonging to an Apple employee, Ethan Lipnik, successful a FaceTime call. Over the people of a fewer months successful 2025, Prosser hosted 3 videos connected his Front Page Tech YouTube transmission detailing an unannounced iOS 19 pinch elements resembling the Liquid Glass interface that Apple would spell connected to show astatine WWDC arsenic portion of its renamed iOS 26 operating system.
I’ve pulled retired immoderate notable pieces from Prosser’s response.
- Apple claimed that aft Prosser learned Ramacciotti “needed money” and that Lipnik worked astatine Apple, Prosser and Ramacciotti “jointly planned” to entree the accusation successful Lipnik’s iPhone. Prosser denied that he “jointly planned” to entree the accusation aliases that he was alert of “Ramacciotti’s financial situation.” Prosser’s filing besides said that he was “unaware of who Ethan Lipnik was” and was “unaware of really and erstwhile Ramacciotti gathered the information.”
- Prosser admitted to participating successful a FaceTime telephone pinch Ramacciotti wherever he was shown “certain iOS features connected the Development iPhone.” Prosser besides admitted that Ramacciotti “demonstrated respective features and applications, which disclosed specifications of the unreleased iOS 19 operating system, “but has not knowledge if iOS 19 was successful truth ‘unreleased,’” according to an awkwardly written condemnation successful the filing.
- Apple alleged that, according to Ramacciotti’s sound message, Ramacciotti “used location tracking” to cognize erstwhile Lipnik would beryllium gone, “acquired” Lipnik’s passcode, and collapsed into the phone. Prosser denies “any knowledge of location tracking,” that the iPhone was Lipnik’s phone, and really Ramacciotti sewage into it.
- Prosser admitted to signaling the FaceTime call, taking surface captures of the call, and to “sharing recordings and renderings afterwards.”
- Prosser denies “enlisting aliases bribing” Ramacciotti successful beforehand of the FaceTime call. However, he admitted to sharing “a information of the YouTube advertizing revenue” pinch Ramacciotti aft publication of the videos “in bid to clasp exclusive connection pinch Ramacciotti.” Prosser besides said he “disconnected communication” pinch Ramacciotti erstwhile he “learned really Ramacciotti acquired the proprietary information.”
- Prosser admitted that the accusation he saw was “unreleased software” and to reporting connected accusation fixed to him “as immoderate news statement would study connected exclusives.”
- Prosser admitted to showing “at slightest a information of the recording” to different people, but “denies that he is successful possession of immoderate further confidential accusation successful this lawsuit that has not already been disclosed to Apple.”
- As portion of a database of affirmative defenses, Prosser’s filing states that “Ramacciotti’s enactment of displaying the features was not induced by Prosser” and that “Ramacciotti is wholly responsible for the disclosure of Apple’s alleged waste and acquisition secrets, if any.”
- It besides states that Ramacciotti is “responsible for each harm caused to Prosser and should indemnify him for each harm caused.”
- Prosser is besides requesting a assemblage proceedings “on each issues truthful triable by a jury.”
Apple didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment. When asked astir the lawsuit earlier this year, Apple spokesperson Jacqueline Roy told The Verge that “We don’t remark connected progressive litigation.”
Months aft Apple revenge the lawsuit, a clerk entered a default against Prosser aft he hadn’t formally responded to the complaint, meaning that the lawsuit could spell connected without him. But Prosser said successful an April filing that he would yet beryllium retaining counsel. In June, Prosser agreed to sit for a deposition, and soon after, Prosser and Apple asked the judge successful the lawsuit to group speech the introduction of default. He did, and gave Prosser 10 days to respond to Apple’s complaint.
Below is Prosser’s afloat response, if you’d for illustration to publication it for yourself.
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