Nicholas Allegra, the hacker who cracked the iPhone system, start an internship at Apple

Allegra Nicholas, the young 19 year old better knew with his hacker name, Comex, who cracked iPhone's operating system, IOS, announced on his Twitter account that will start in September, an internship at Apple. He admits he expected more criticism from folks in the network of microblogging, but received plenty of congratulations.

Comex stayed behind many break of code and its most popular program is the tool called JailbreakMe.

Another known "tool" is Spirit. With these two programs, users iPhone and iPod Touch can run applications without downloading them from the official Apple store.


The first version was launched JailbreakMe in 2007. For several years, the creator application was unknown to the public. But Allegra details were disclosed earlier this month when the young man gave an interview to U.S. Forbes magazine. Allegra has 19 years, is living with parents in New York and studies at Brown University.