That's the name of this notorious hacker's homepage. He's 23 now, called Jon Lech Johansen and he has been hacking a myriad of electronic gadgets since he was a teenager. He's Norwegian of course, and worshipped by all hacker lovers and alike. His latest conquest: Bypassing the need for an ATT service contract during Activation of an iPhone... A hacked iPhone can then be used for all of its other features except placing and receiving phonecalls (and SMSs)... a sort of a super iPod 6th Gen, like many of us are currently dreaming of. If that was (safely) possible, it wouldn't be such a bad idea after all to buy one and hack it Jon's way... it's actually close to fulfilling a dream of many Europeans who can't wait to put their finger(s) on the little marvels. Pity that these things right now look more like shuffles and minis in terms of their disk capacity...If any of you wants to try, link to Jon's description of the hack and his related downloadable executable that gives the final blow. Again, you got to be more than a casual user to do that (or stinkin' rich... that cuts it too!). You need to use an hexadecimal editor, open up your iTunes executable where you've got to overwrite current contents at three predefined by Jon separate offset spots with corresponding values he is providing. You also need to add to your hosts file in your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ folder (directory) a line that redirects the typical localhost loopback IP 127.0.0.1 to albert.apple.com (what the heck domain is that?). Only then you can run Jon's activation executable and pray that it'll work. Good luck kiddos!
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