Then he slid a guitar pick around the tiny groove, and twisted free the shell with a snap. He used a Phillips-head eyeglass screwdriver to undo the two screws in the back of the phone. After weeks of research with other hackers online, Hotz realized that, if he could make a chip inside the phone think it had been erased, it was “like talking to a baby, and it’s really easy to persuade a baby.”
As Hotz describes it, the secret is to figure out how to speak to the device, then persuade it to obey your wishes. In one respect, hacking is an act of hypnosis. He wanted an iPhone, but he also wanted to make calls using his existing network, so he decided to hack the phone.Įvery hack poses the same basic challenge: how to make something function in a way for which it wasn’t designed. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jersey, was a T-Mobile subscriber. In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. Radical hackers took up Hotz’s fight, although he never considered himself a cause.
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