Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple

testinghello wrote: post #2

> (He agreed to speak after Forbes‘ poking around Twitter, > Facebook and the Brown Directory revealed his name.) B this is the most important part of the story

I'm not sure why you got downvoted on this, but maybe you can elaborate on why you think that is 'the most important part of the story'

Re: Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple

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Post by aberkowitz » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 4:30 PM UTC

pedalpete wrote: post #6

testinghello wrote: post #2

> (He agreed to speak after Forbes‘ poking around Twitter, > Facebook and the Brown Directory revealed his name.) B this is the most important part of the story

I'm not sure why you got downvoted on this, but maybe you can elaborate on why you think that is 'the most important part of the story'

It appears that the journalists are engaging in unethical, borderline blackmail processes to get people to speak.

Re: Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple

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Post by daimyoyo » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 4:30 PM UTC

Jailbreakme is an amazingly elegant tool. Although I seriously doubt they will, Apple should definitely hire him. His products show that he understands design as well as anyone on their payroll now. That combined with his obvious coding skills make him the ideal Apple engineer.

Re: Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple

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Post by canistr » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 4:33 PM UTC

testinghello wrote: post #2

> (He agreed to speak after Forbes‘ poking around Twitter, > Facebook and the Brown Directory revealed his name.) B this is the most important part of the story

Agreed. It's strange that people get all up in arms when the government does this for suspects and yet when some random journalists start snooping around, trying to dig dirt up on you, and blackmails you to write a story (and then proceed to make money from said story), nobody seems to care. Ridiculous. Forbes should be chastised for this.

Re: Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple

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Post by saurik » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 4:44 PM UTC

canistr wrote: post #9

testinghello wrote: post #2

> (He agreed to speak after Forbes‘ poking around Twitter, > Facebook and the Brown Directory revealed his name.) B this is the most important part of the story

Agreed. It's strange that people get all up in arms when the government does this for suspects and yet when some random journalists start snooping around, trying to dig dirt up on you, and blackmails you to write a story (and then proceed to make money from said story), nobody seems to care. Ridiculous. Forbes should be chastised for this.

For the record, I spoke to this reporter for a couple hours, and even had him tell me exactly how he got comex's name (which I did not actually know).

He plays it up in that quote from his article, but it turns out getting the name was /trivial/: comex had a public Facebook account, in his real name, using one of his standard usernames. It is actually likely that he got the name before he even realized it was supposed to be "secret".

In fact, I even joked "fair enough; you know, I've never actually looked, but for all I know his personal domain name is registered to his home address by his mother or something": it turns out it literally is.

(It should also be noted that comex has agreed to talk to reporters before, such as for an article published by Reuters.)