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Teens bond by jailbreaking Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch
MacDailyNews —
... reports. "Since Apple began selling its latest iPhone 3GS on June 19, Ari and six online cohorts spent hours a day probing the new product for security holes. This weekend, one of the members of the group, dubbed the Chronic Dev Team, released the jailbreaking software they've been working on. Ari says the program is a test version with some bugs, but that users have successfully downloaded it. A quarter-million people have visited the site, he says," Kane reports. Full article here .
Wall Street Journal Profiles Hackers Behind the iPhone Jailbreak
The iPhone Blog —
... The Wall Street Journal, yanking the curtain away from the wizards behind the iPhone jailbreaking scene, reveals a group of highly precocious teens, twenties, and thirty-somethings. ...
Video: 15 year old spends summer jailbreaking iPhones
Engadget —
... When we were fifteen we were too busy smoking Winstons behind the Country Fair on Pennsylvania state route 99 to do anything of real value for society, so perhaps that's why whenever we cover one of these "teenager does good" stories it's with a slight tinge of regret. ...
Meet AriX, the 15-year old iPhone hacker
iPhonefreak —
... do hacking that helps people.” Ari was also the person behind the incredibly easy to use iJailbreak software that was released a few years back for the original iPhone. Overall, the article, which comes along with a family style video offers a nice glimpse at a side of the jailbreaking scene that we do not see all that often and at the same time it is slightly entertaining to read. If nothing else, it would seem that this is not going to be the last we hear about Ari Weinstein. [ Wall Street Journal and Image Courtesy of ...
Appletell interviews Ari, developer of iJailBreak
Appletell —
... Yes, you had an article about you in the Wall Street Journal about spending your summer hacking iPhones. What did it feel like to be recognized by such a mainstream company at such a young age? ...
