5:00 AM - 19-Year-Old Genius, Jailbreak Hacker Comex Will Join Apple
Steve Jobs announced to resign from Apple yesterday, causing Apple fans very disappointed and sad. But today here are some information that seems comedy, that is, the well-known jailbreak hacker, comex, the cracker who develop the iPad2 jailbreak tool JailbreakMe3.0, recently announced on Twitter that he has received Apple's invitation, and is ready to begin trnee trainee work in Apple.
comex's real name is Allegra, who is a 19 year-old gifted student of Brown University. Forbes have interviewed him, showing us the underside of the god of the Internet.
Nicholas Allegra and his parents live in Chappaqua, New York. At first glance, you might know this big boy who is tall, wearing a fluffy brown hair, and wearing glasses is actually a super-hacker, only 19 year-old but has been able to do anything he want in the jailbreak world. Because he has a screen name sought after by millions of people in the industry: Comex.
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Allegra is studying in Brown University, he has now entered the vacation period, and are looking for a suitable practice enterprise. During this period, he attack on the security of computer field again and again : finding loopholes from the source code within Apple's iPhone. You know, this phone has more limits than almost any computer in the market. Allegra's purpose to find loopholes is to unlock the "yoke" iPhone set to anyhacker, and to benefit lots of iPhone users.
"Forbes" reporters got through Allegra's phone and asked him how he evaluate jailbreak. His answer was:" I think this just like to edit an English newspaper. As long as you carefully check, and to find out the mistakes in it." Then he said modestly, "Actually I do not know why everything (JailBreakMe) i have done acts."
Allegra stated that JailBreakMe is not used for theft or damage, it just let users can install any software they want on their own equipment. But as a jailbreak tool, it is not welcomed by Apple, because if the loopholes it exploited on Apple device once handed in those hackers who are not pregnant well-intentioned, may result in unpredictable consequences.
In the end of the interview, Forbes' columnist suggested that Apple should recruit the genius. No one would have thought Apple acts so quickly, comex did not disclose his work range designated by Apple, but apparently he will no longer develop the jailbreak tools.
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