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By Dan Frommer. From the SplatF archives.
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 9:51 am.

Meet the 19-year-old iPhone hacker behind JailbreakMe.com

Forbes’ Andy Greenberg talks to Nicholas Allegra, whose iPhone jailbreak software has been used about 2 million times:

“It feels like editing an English paper,” Allegra says simply, his voice croaking as if he just woke up, though we’re speaking at 9:30 pm. “You just go through and look for errors. I don’t know why I seem to be so effective at it.”

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