By day he’s your average American teen. Just two weeks out of high school, he saved money from his part-time job fixing computers and waited three hours outside an AT&T store to buy an iPhone. By night, he leads the vanguard of a growing community of iPhone hackers under the name geohot.

Here are a few points:

What’s the plan for hacking the iPhone?

Right now we are trying to compile a working toolchain. The iPhone is the only device to use Mach-O and ARM. Some things support Mach-O i386. Some things support ELF ARM. We need to merge them together. We already know how to upload files to the phone, move those files around, and run those files. We want to write a program which can send the unlock codes right to the radio.

What motivates you to do this?

I need a summer project And wouldn’t I look cool walking around with a T-Mobile iPhone?

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