Apple just hired another Member of iPhone jailbreaking community, Nicholas Allegra, also known as "@ comex" on Twitter. The most known JailBreakMe website which made the process of jailbreaking iPhone as simple as visiting a Web page, using mobile Safari Allegra.
19-year-old Hacker from Chappaqua, New York, posted the news of his hire on Twitter, saying that he would be starting an internship with Apple in a week.
Allegra was one of the most visible members of the community of jailbreaking, regularly search for vulnerabilities in the iOS software Apple that allows to hack iPhones, iPod touches and iPads. Usually these holes exploited using specialized jailbreaking software applications that require phone or other device to connect to a computer via USB cable.
But JailBreakMe was much easier to use-visitors has just launched a Web site from your mobile device. The site featured a familiar-looking slide to jailbreak "bar at the bottom of the page. One simple gesture and the device has been hacked. He's done jailbreaking is available to anyone, not even by non-technical users.
Apple traditionally discouraged jailbreaking because it allows you to install third party apps outside the official iTunes app Store. Worried that once a jailbroken phone or other device, it is easier to illegally pirated apps that would otherwise be sold in the App Store, earning income for both developers and Apple.
However, not all jailbreakers interested in stealing apps – sometimes, like their counterparts, rooting Android, they just want to control their mobile phone. On jailbroken iOS device users can make the software settings and install widgets, themes, and other unapproved applications by using third party "jailbreak" App stores like Cydia, icy, and ThemeIt.
In recent months, Apple began to take notice of the community now booming jailbreak is estimated to comprise 10% of all iPhones. For example Apple hired Peter Hajas in June, the creator of the popular jailbreak app, known as mobile alerts, which has a striking resemblance to the new notification system in iOS5. The move has prompted discussion of whether Apple is reviewing its position with regard to jailbreaking — maybe it is now time is counted as a farm League for discovering new talent?
Jailbreaking is yet more mainstream this year thanks to its first ever Hacker Convention called MyGreatFest. According to the organizers Allegra had planned to attend the Conference, but whether he will still not currently clear.
Says MyGreatFest Organiser Craig Fox, "I think this is a big step for Allegra, but it's sad for the jailbreaking community to lose bright and young Hacker".
Image credit: Forbes, who outed @ comex earlier this month
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