Another poacher turns gamekeeper: The iPhone hacker behind the JailBreakMe iOS jailbreak is to start working for Apple.
Nicholas Allegra, aka Comex, has tweeted that he'll soon be starting an internship. He says jailbreaking has been fun, but he's been getting bored:
The 19-year-old lives with his parents in New York and is taking a break from Brown University. Earlier this year, Forbes profiled him:
That other super-jailbreaker George Hotz - Geohot - got a job earlier this year...with Facebook.
To the public, Allegra has been known only by the hacker handle Comex, and keeps a low profile. (He agreed to speak after Forbes‘ poking around Twitter, Facebook and the Brown Directory revealed his name.) But in what’s becoming almost an annual summer tradition, the pseudonymous hacker has twice released a piece of code called JailBreakMe that allows millions of users to strip away in seconds the ultra-strict security measures Apple has placed on its iPhones and iPads, devices that account for more than half the company’s $100 billion in revenues.The tool isn’t intended for theft or vandalism: It merely lets users install any application they want on their devices. But jailbreaking, as the practice is called, violates Apple’s obsessive control of its gadgets and demonstrates software holes that could be exploited later by less benevolent hackers.
(Source: iClarified)
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