17-year old George Hotz has unlocked an iPhone and used it on T-Mobile, not AT&T as Apple forces the rest of us to do. Not only that, George is auctioning off the very first unlocked iPhone on eBay in a historic auction.
In a blow to the vaunted iPhone security, George Hotz from Glen Rock, NJ took only two hours to hack an iPhone with a little software tweak and a soldering iron. This is not something he recommends for the non-technical among us, but he’s published the how-to do it in 10 steps on the his blog.
Here’s a picture of the George Hotz iPhone hack:
Here’s the video of George Hotz showing how to hack an iPhone:
Here’s the eBay auction for this historic iPhone hack:
Get in a bid on this historic ebay auction for an unlocked iPhone courtesy of George Hotz.
George Hotz Unlocked iPhone
The historic iPhone was traded for just what George wanted. Here is a quote from George Hotz blog on what he got in trade: “Terry Daidone, the founder of Certicell contacted me this morning, and offered to make a trade for the iPhone. I traded it for a sweet Nissan 350Z and 3 8GB iPhones. I will be sending the iPhones, unlocked if they wish, to jpetrie(the first donater), gray(the reversing genius), and iProof(who is truly amazing at finding stuff online) Thanks a lot everyone. I leave for college tomorrow, and this has been a great end to a great summer. If I ever do anything more with the iPhone, it’ll definitely be posted here.”
Here’s George Hotz CNN Interview:
And, fittingly, here is the iPhone parody video on what people will really use the unlocked iPhone for… iPorn!
More great things are expected from George Hotz…
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August 25th, 2007 at 7:37 am
Now that his hacked iphone is up to $50k on eBay, George should start dating Kellie Pickler…
Hackers rule!
August 25th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Hotz iphone hack is brilliant! 17-years old and he outwitted Apple. Simply friggin brilliant!
August 25th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Just checked the auction and it had been viewed 166,000 times!
George Hotz had posted this message on the auction listing: On Aug-24-07 at 17:19:43 PDT, seller added the following information:
“I am trying to get a hold of eBay right now as I am sure many of these bids are fraudulent. Please do not bid if you do not intend to buy.”
Apparently a bunch of idiots were putting in huge bids and they had to cancel the eBay auction of the hacked iphone.
No word on whether it will get relisted…
August 25th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Major news on the auction. eBay killed it this morning!
Not only that, they booted George Hotz right off eBay as well. If you look closely at the auction, you can see where it says right next to his eBay ID “geohot” – No Longer A Registered User.
That’s eBay speak for we’ve kicked your ass to the curb kid and don’t come back.
Probably has something to do with Apple and eBay making a lot of money for each other…
August 25th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
love that ebay username “geohot”…even tooled it on the back of the iphone case…lol!
Anybody know if he’s gonna sell it on his George Hotz website or maybe just his blog where the 10 steps of the iphone code hack are posted?
August 26th, 2007 at 12:53 am
here’s the update……. the iphone has been traded……. Terry Daidone, the founder of Certicell……. way to go hotz……
what if eBay kicks him out……. there will be a million to appreciate the real Hackerz……
Long live the Hackerz……….
August 29th, 2007 at 3:44 am
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November 11th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
nice job. and i think ure iboy
November 16th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Also I wanted to mention that by doing this you are helping others learn. And they will especially love you if you help them figure something out they are stuck on.
February 22nd, 2010 at 6:27 am
Okay so I’ve tried several times already to jailbreak my iPhone but when I click make it ra1n it always comes up and says some type of error report. I hit send and try it again but nothing except another error. What do I need to do to get this to work? I’m anxious about jalibreaking it
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