Sometimes, the best way to beat a threat is to just hire them. Nicholas Allegra, the hacker better known as Comex, behind the site JailbreakMe.com, announced on Twitter that he has been hired by Apple as an intern.
JailbreakMe.com made it possible for iOS users to jailbreak their devices merely by visiting a website. According to Allegra's announcement on Twitter, apparently he was looking for new challenges:
It's been really, really fun, but it's also been a while and I've been getting bored. So, the week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple.
In a previous article from Forbes, Allegra said that jailbreaking was "like editing an English paper… You just go through and look for errors. I don't know why I seem to be so effective at it."
The 19-year-old's latest jailbreak took advantage of an exploit within Apple's PDF renderer to run custom software to best iOS devices. Apple came up with a solution a little more than a week after the fact, but perhaps it was the ease with which Allegra came up with the hack, that might have caught Apple's eye.
Allegra didn't mention what exactly he'd be working on at Apple.
This wouldn't be the first time though that Apple has dipped into the hacker talent pool. Peter Hajas, was brought in as an Apple summer intern earlier in the year. However, Allegra has been the one to actually release the tools that made jailbreaking an option for iOS users, in comparison to Hajas.
via Mac Rumors
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