More is known about pod2g, the hacker of the French Chronic Dev Team

The news of the jailbreak has been very busy in recent weeks. The Chronic Dev Team, a group of hackers in the highly specialized knowledge of the iPhone, from all over the world, recently published Absinthe 2.0 (we are now at 2.0.4), a tool that allows the Jailbreak of IOS 5.1.1 on all devices, including
the latest generation iPad.

As with every release of a new jailbreak, millions of eyes are on the release process of IOS devices, escaping the restrictions of Apple to access Cydia, "cousin" of the eccentric AppStore. The new face of Jailbreak, pod2g, a former DJ who excels in finding flaws in IOS Apple, recently gave a brief interview.

Known by the nickname of the pod2g with more than 330,000 followers on Twitter, the famous hacker (whose real name is Cyril) officially came on the scene of the jailbreak in September 2010, he raised his fame when he joined Twitter, just after releasing the second generation iPod by Apple. He drew public attention when he found an exploit in the Boot ROM-based devices IOS 4, and allowed the release of Greenp0is0n, tool Jailbreak IOS 4.1. pod2g worked in collaboration with the Chronic Dev Team Jailbreaks in the development of this team since. Since then, millions of people have benefited from his work as the iPod Touch, iPhone as iPads.

More is known about pod2g

In an interview, pod2g answered some questions about it, and behold these answers:

He started learning the code when he was 6 years old. He started tinkering on a ZX Spectrum, which belonged to his father, and received a book on the source code. In eight years, he was already able to understand and to write his proposed line of code. The draft Jailbreak who has the most passionate about is obviously the Absinthe and the recent release of Corona & Rocky Racoon. He was a DJ in a former life. pod2g reported that he will attend a meeting (JailbreakCon) in September in San Francisco, devoted exclusively to the jailbreak community. He will lead a workshop where fans eager hackers can learn the basics. Its activity therefore continues in the Chronic Dev Team to create new tools for the release of IOS to come from Apple, including the next version, the 6 ... 


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