Apple hires iPhone jailbreak hacker

Apple Inc. has hired a 19-year-old hacker who has found security vulnerabilities in the iOS software that runs its iPhone, iPad and iPod devices.

Nicholas Allegra, a.k.a. “comex," said in an entry on his Twitter account he is to start his internship with Apple.

“So, the week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple," he tweeted.

TechCrunch said Allegra had made the process of jailbreaking the iPhone “as simple as visiting a webpage using mobile Safari."

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