Tech | November 17, 2009 | 3 comments

Apple battles 'jailbreakers' over iPhone control

source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/16/iphone.jailbreakers/index.html

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(WIRED) -- When he was 17, George Hotz poured hundreds of hours of his summer vacation into a special project: learning the iPhone's secrets. His unpaid labor eventually paid off.

With the help of a soldering iron, he was the first to unlock the iPhone, delivering the handset to international networks before Apple had a chance to.

He got some perks, too. His unlock catapulted him to internet stardom, catching the eye of an entrepreneur who traded his Nissan 350Z car for Hotz's restriction-free iPhone.

Hotz, now 20, makes a living as a "hacker for hire" of sorts -- getting paid to break into different types of gadgets. He gets to spend his free time unofficially attending a college, where he pretends to be a student just to socialize.

What's best, Hotz didn't think unlocking the iPhone was even hard
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3 comments // Apple battles 'jailbreakers' over iPhone control

  • krazykizza
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      krazykizza  

    • Apple, the power that it claims to be, can be pwned by just one 17 year old. I'd like to see what happens if a roomfull of hackers would do to a company like Apple Inc. Free MacBooks for all!

    • 2 years ago
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  

    • Once you pay for the phone it is yours to do with as you see fit. Is it not? What this person did was to fix a phone that was broke it would only use one carrer he fixed it so he could use any service he wanted I see nothing wrong with that.

    • 2 years ago
  • blood77
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