George hotz Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Software-only unlock for the current iPhone firmware announced

by Michael Rose (Feb 10th, 2008)

As many have you have emailed to tell us (thanks everyone), hacker teen wonder George Hotz a.k.a. GeoHot, of the hardware iPhone unlock heard 'round the world, has apparently made something unexpected: a software-only unlocking procedure for the iPhone's 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 firmware versions. With ...

A doubly bad day for AT&T: Second iPhone unlock publicized

by Michael Rose (Aug 24th, 2007)

As Erica announced earlier today, our colleagues at Engadget confirmed a software-only unlock for the iPhone that's got their unit happily working on the T-Mobile network. Fine and dandy, but here's where it gets confusing. The AP/CNN has reported that a New Jersey teenager named George Hotz (with ...