Leave it to some teenage kid sitting in his room ...

Leave it to some teenage kid sitting in his room ...

Posted by CalifChris at 2007-08-24 08:30 PM | Reply


Least He is Learning something instead of masturbating His pud to a nubbin. Now for the record I am NOT condoning what He did I am just making a flippant response.

Larry

Anything to knock AT&T and Apple down a peg is ok in my book.

Bet he's voided his warranty.

Hackers should do hard time in the joint with big buba.

this might be considered terrorist activity.

is there any irony in a "hacker" cracking the subsidy lock on a device built by the Macintosh Corp, which was itself founded by a "hacker"?

I am amazed that companies are still trying to beat that mythical hacker kid, who cannot be beaten.

are there any subsidy locks, DRM schemes, or other "profit protectors" out there that HAVENT been broken by a "17 yr old hacker"?

I want to see the commercial where Bill Gates is the cool dude with a microsoft enabled phone and Steve "Blow" Jobs is the uncool geek that just had his phone hacked!

bummer, dude!

I find that it actually increases the value of an iPhone (iPhag) since it lets you use it in places other than AT$T...

Leave it to some teenage kid sitting in his room ...

Posted by CalifChris at 2007-08-24 08:30 PM | Reply

Well Chairborne had to do something with his summer before middle school starts again.

OMG! This awful person has made it possible for some to avoid paying AT&T their due for the use of the iPhone. If there is one thing in this world I care about it is the revenue received by AT&T.
Hang him.

This thread is an interesting study on how hackers have changed the world we live in.

1 post supporting AT&T
6 post supporting the Hacker

Before the hacker revolution of the 80's when ma bell was queen of the block those numbers would have been reveresed and spending time with bubba would have been the nicest thing said to do with the hacker.

I wonder how much of the current anti-corporate feeling in America is due to the rise of the hackers?

There is nothing wrong with hacking. To hack is to delve into the nuts and bolts of a system to figure out how it works.

A cracker, on the other hand, does the same thing, only for malicious purposes.

The media never gets these terms correct.

"The media never gets these terms correct."

Posted by NuclearPenguin


That statement is true for all terms.

The media do not exist to inform,
nor even to entertain.
The media exist to sell.

A cracker, on the other hand, does the same thing, only for malicious purposes.

The media never gets these terms correct.


Well that would be because every dip stick on the planet sees the movie "hackers" and thinks "omg they're gonna hack the gibson".


Before the hacker revolution of the 80's


The hacker 'revolution' started long before the 80's. Read up on John Draper (Cap'n Crunch) and some of the MIT guys. Hacking was never about maliciousness. It was always about learning more about systems.

The hacker 'revolution' started long before the 80's. Read up on John Draper (Cap'n Crunch) and some of the MIT guys.

Your starting from the very begining long before it was even close to a revolution.

i hear his modded iphone is up over 2000 dollars on fleabay.

this hack had as much to do with building a rep and selling something as it it did any "hacker ethos"

i unlocked my motorola. big deal. tis just demonstrates the futility of provider lock-in.

Well Chairborne had to do something with his summer before middle school starts again.

Posted by JimmyWallback at 2007-08-25 08:30 AM | Reply

thats just . . .fantastic, bravo jimmy

God intended us to use carrier pigeons. If not, she'd have put feathers on the i-phone. herm

Your starting from the very begining long before it was even close to a revolution.


The beginning is just that. The start. The 1980's wasn't the start. It began in the late 60's and early 70's. But I could even argue that you can't point to one place in time as the start. There were always guys you could classify as hackers who had a grudge against "the man".