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Submitted by PaPa-Slam 372d ago | article

George Hotz, Sony, and the Anonymous Hacker Wars

NewYorker - In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. & T. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jersey, was a T-Mobile subscriber. He wanted an iPhone, but he also wanted to make calls using his existing network, so he decided to hack the phone (Anonymous, Culture, Sony)

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