Posted on August 23, 2007
Filed Under Apple |
It has been reported that the iPhone has been hacked by a 17 year old kid from New Jersey. This, in my opinion, is an amazing accomplishment when you think about the lengths Apple went to in order to block the iPhone from being used an any other network. The 17 year old, George Hotz’s, claims he did this by using a combination of a soldering gun and software. It apparently took him over 500 hours to crack the iPhone and he was working on it with a group of other hackers. He has posted a video on YouTube with proof of his claim showing a working iPhone running on the T-Mobile network and has also posted a how to guide on his website
http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com. It is unclear if this will be bad news for AT&T as far as business is concerned, it has been reported that both AT&T and Apple were contacted but would not comment on the hacked iPhone. For those of you out there that do not have AT&T and want an iPhone the doors have now opened for you. Although beware as the word on the street is this is not an easy feat to duplicate. George states on his website its not an easy task. If your interested in reading more about this I suggest checking out his site.
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That is funny! Justs shows you that the hackers seem to always be one step ahead.
Good news! Hopefully Apple will drop the forced bundle to one operator soon. Or maybe with iPhone Version 2. I does not make sense at all, it’s probably only so Apple can get a share of the revenue that’s made through the iPhone usage.