iPod Touch Falls Prey to 13-Year-Old Hacker

by admin October 15, 2007 at 4:38 pm

Like the iPhone before it, the iPod touch has been compromised by a young computer maestro, allowing it to run third-party applications.

You don’t need to have a high school diploma, driver’s license or even legal independence to successfully subvert the best efforts of a major corporation from your home computer. That’s what one 13-year-old who goes by the handle AriX proved with iJailbreak, a program to easily crack the iPod Touch’s restrictions on third-party applications.

Full story: digitaltrends.com