Teen trades hacked iPhone for 'sweet' car

[Dope Nose]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/08/28/iphone.unlocked.ap/index.html

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- The teenage hacker who managed to unlock the iPhone so that it can be used with cellular networks other than AT&T will be trading his reworked gadget for a new car.

George Hotz, of Glen Rock, New Jersey, said he had reached the deal with CertiCell, a Louisville, Kentucky-based mobile phone repair company.

Hotz posted on his blog that he traded his modified iPhone for "a sweet Nissan 350Z and 3 8GB iPhones."

"This has been a great end to a great summer," Hotz wrote.

The 17-year-old Hotz said he will be sending the three new iPhones to the three online collaborators who helped him divorce Apple Inc's popular product from AT&T's network. The job took 500 hours, or about 8 hours a day since the iPhone's June 29 launch.

Hotz made the deal with Terry Daidone, co-founder of CertiCell, who also promised the teen a paid consulting job.

"We do not have any plans on the table right now to commercialize Mr. Hotz' discovery," Daidone said in a statement.

 

[terry78]

^Idiot. Why just be pacified with a car when a company would offer you more to work with them? Geez. You just cracked an Apple product. They should be clamoring to get you in some position. I swear some of these kids today.


"Hmm...you deciphered a way around our new product...how about a new car, young man?"

"SWEET!"

 

[Erzengel]

This is why 17 year olds are easy to sleep with.

 

[jaguarr]

I read an interview with the kid and he said that he felt like he was already getting way more than the phone was worth and was happy he was getting the deal he was getting. He's not greedy, it would seem. Kind of refreshing to see a kid like that, actually.

jag

 

[PhotoJones]

What. An. Idiot.

 

[Erzengel]

^Idiot. Why just be pacified with a car when a company would offer you more to work with them? Geez. You just cracked an Apple product. They should be clamoring to get you in some position. I swear some of these kids today.


"Hmm...you deciphered a way around our new product...how about a new car, young man?"

"SWEET!"

I read an interview with the kid and he said that he felt like he was already getting way more than the phone was worth and was happy he was getting the deal he was getting. He's not greedy, it would seem. Kind of refreshing to see a kid like that, actually.

jag

To tack on to it, he is 17 which probably means he's a Senior in High School. It's not like he was going to quit school for some sort of lucrative position in their company.

Could he have gotten more? Probably.

I mean if he's happy with what he got. More power to him.

As jag said, maybe he's not greedy. Of course if it was me, I'd have them pay for my entire college tuition instead of a car.

 

[Warhammer]

He. Is. Dumb.

 

[terry78]

Though in hindsight, a 17 year old driving a 2007 anything will get some massive ***** his last year in school, so I can kind of see where his priorities lie.

 

[antsiou]

Though in hindsight, a 17 year old driving a 2007 anything will get some massive ***** his last year in school, so I can kind of see where his priorities lie.

lol Word,
but with a better deal he could end up like

Spoiler

 

[kane9321]

car=*****....its just that simple

 

[AhabTheArab]

Though in hindsight, a 17 year old driving a 2007 anything will get some massive ***** his last year in school, so I can kind of see where his priorities lie.

i guess but lets put his quotes into context here. "great ending to a great summer" he spent 8 hours a day since the end of june trying to hack this thing. how much ***** could he have possibly seen?

 

[antsiou]

car=*****....its just that simple

http://www.poster.net/kill-bill/kill-bill-volume-1-*****-wagon-5001194.jpg

 

[jaguarr]

To tack on to it, he is 17 which probably means he's a Senior in High School. It's not like he was going to quit school for some sort of lucrative position in their company.

Could he have gotten more? Probably.

I mean if he's happy with what he got. More power to him.

As jag said, maybe he's not greedy. Of course if it was me, I'd have them pay for my entire college tuition AND of a car.

jag

 

[Ahura Mazda]

He obviously undersold it. I would have attempted to maximise the value of what idid and I doubt it would just be a car.

 

[PLAS]

i guess but lets put his quotes into context here. "great ending to a great summer" he spent 8 hours a day since the end of june trying to hack this thing. how much ***** could he have possibly seen?

it's not the ***** he has seen during the summer, it's the ***** this summer's work will get him

remember hard work?

sometimes, it gets you *****

sometimes, a sweet ride

 

[Kritish]

Dumb ass kid. :

 

[jaguarr]

I love the irony of people calling the kid who successfully hacked an iPhone "dumb".

jag

 

[Warhammer]

I love the irony of people calling the kid who successfully hacked an iPhone "dumb".

jag

Dumb because I would've milked the s*** out of this opportunity.

 

[Carcharodon]

it's not the ***** he has seen during the summer, it's the ***** this summer's work will get him

remember hard work?

sometimes, it gets you *****

sometimes, a sweet ride

The stars must will it to be true, though, right?

 

[Superman4ever]

Wow, he hacked an iPhone and all he got was a car? I would have asked for a full-ride to college instead. This kid is easily MIT material, so I would have applied there and asked for my 4-year tuition to be paid for.

 

[terry78]

I love the irony of people calling the kid who successfully hacked an iPhone "dumb".

jag

Many a person is book smart, but not street smart.

 

[jaguarr]

Dumb because I would've milked the s*** out of this opportunity.

He got a $30,000 car and three new iPhones for a $600 investment and being geeky. You guys look at it as putting in 500 hours of work, but to this kid it was fun not work. He would have done it anyways. He felt like he got a good deal out of it. Besides, he already published the instructions on how to do this on his blog so any idiot that would pay this kid anything at all for that phone deserves to be parted with their money. Trust me, the potential scholarship and job opportunities he'll get out of all this publicity will open doors for him down the road, anyway. By showing he's not going to get TOO carried away with the milking it he makes himself more attractive to those institutions because he's an honest young man. He'll get more benefit out of this in the long run, I think. Sort of like giving the goose that lays the golden eggs some good food and a pet instead of cutting it open to get whatever eggs are in there right now as so many seem to be suggesting he's dumb for not doing. Maybe not so dumb after all.

jag

 

[Warhammer]

He got a $30,000 car and three new iPhones for a $600 investment and being geeky. You guys look at it as putting in 500 hours of work, but to this kid it was fun not work. He would have done it anyways. He felt like he got a good deal out of it. Besides, he already published the instructions on how to do this on his blog so any idiot that would pay this kid anything at all for that phone deserves to be parted with their money. Trust me, the potential scholarship and job opportunities he'll get out of all this publicity will open doors for him down the road, anyway. By showing he's not going to get TOO carried away with the milking it he makes himself more attractive to those institutions because he's an honest young man. He'll get more benefit out of this in the long run, I think. Sort of like giving the goose that lays the golden eggs some good food and a pet instead of cutting it open to get whatever eggs are in there right now as so many seem to be suggesting he's dumb for not doing. Maybe not so dumb after all.

jag

Perhaps.
Great point...

 

[Erzengel]

He got a $30,000 car and three new iPhones for a $600 investment and being geeky. You guys look at it as putting in 500 hours of work, but to this kid it was fun not work. He would have done it anyways. He felt like he got a good deal out of it. Besides, he already published the instructions on how to do this on his blog so any idiot that would pay this kid anything at all for that phone deserves to be parted with their money. Trust me, the potential scholarship and job opportunities he'll get out of all this publicity will open doors for him down the road, anyway. By showing he's not going to get TOO carried away with the milking it he makes himself more attractive to those institutions because he's an honest young man. He'll get more benefit out of this in the long run, I think. Sort of like giving the goose that lays the golden eggs some good food and a pet instead of cutting it open to get whatever eggs are in there right now as so many seem to be suggesting he's dumb for not doing. Maybe not so dumb after all.

jag

Even with 500 hours, 30,000 would be $60 an hour.

 

[PLAS]

The stars must will it to be true, though, right?

I really don't know what the stars have to do with this, but if you say so