6BLACK-BOX TESTING
While white-box testing is almost always the best way to security test an application, sometimes you simply have to do your testing without source code or insight into a program’s design. In these cases, you’ll need to dig a little deeper into the guts of iOS, especially into the realm of Objective-C and the Mach-O binary format.
Black-box testing on iOS is a rapidly moving target—it relies on the continuous development of jailbreaks, as well as robust third-party tools and debugging implements. I’ve tried to make the techniques and tools described in this chapter as future-proof as possible to give you a solid foundation to build on.
To effectively black-box test an iOS application, you’ll first need to get a jailbroken device ...
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