A 19-year-old who is probably the world's most noted iPhone hacker said Thursday he's been hired by Apple, the very company whose products he's been hacking into.
"It's been really, really fun, but it's also been a while and I've been getting bored," Nicholas Allegra, who's better known by his pseudonym Comex, posted on Twitter. "So, the week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple."
Apple did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment on Comex's internship at the company.
Forbes writer Andy Greenberg revealed Comex's identity this month, calling him the "iPhone uber-hacker who keeps outsmarting Apple."
In the story, he noted that Comex was looking for an internship, and he suggested that Apple give him one.
"Now it has," he wrote Friday.
Yeah, I'd hire the kid too if I were Apple. Kid's been making a mockery of your product's information security, you white hat him and have him show you how to make it better. Very smart move on Apple's part, and one I applaud.
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