Comex the hacker behind JailbreakMe 3.0 the first untethered iPad 2 jailbreak has been interviewed by Forbes. We have got the pictures of the hacker Comex and his real name too. Check the picture below and the nickname also after the break.
Nicholas Allegra lives with his parents in Chappaqua, New York. The tall, shaggy-haired and bespectacled 19-year old has been on leave from Brown University since last winter, looking for an internship. […]
“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.†[…]
Dino Dai Zovi, co-author of the Mac Hacker’s Handbook, says JailbreakMe’s sophistication is on par with that of Stuxnet, a worm thought to have been designed by the Israeli or U.S. government to infect Iran’s nuclear facilities. He compares Allegra’s skills to the state-sponsored intruders that plague corporations and governments, what the cybersecurity industry calls “advanced-persistent threat†hackers: “He’s probably five years ahead of them,†says Dai Zovi. […]
He calls himself an Apple “fanboy,†and describes Android’s more open platform as “the enemy.†“I guess it’s just about the challenge, more than anything else,†he says. […]
The young hacker taught himself to code in the programming language Visual Basic at the age of nine, gleaning tricks from Web forums. “By the time I took a computer science class in high school, I already knew everything,†he says. When he found that he couldn’t save a screenshot from the Nintendo Wii video game Super Smash Brothers to his computer, he spent hours deciphering the file, and later worked on other Wii hacks, getting a feel for its obscure operating system.
