This 17-year-old hacker genius cracked the first generation iPhone!

The time came to 2007 year , First generation ipone It's amazing , Redefined Smartphone .

But the first generation iPhone There are also irritating things , At that time iPhone and AT&T（ At that time, the largest mobile operator in the United States ） Signed an exclusive operation agreement for five years , Make the network limited to AT&T The Internet .

In short, it's , You can only insert one phone card into your mobile phone , Not negotiable .

This design has caused a lot of controversy , Some people have come up with the idea of cracking it on the Internet iPhone The slogan of the .

Many hackers have joined in .

Many hackers try to crack iPhone, It's like racking your brains .

iPhone Forced to become all China Netcom , That's what everyone expected ,

But what's unexpected is , The first crack iPhone At that time, only 17 George, · Hotz .

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17 Summer at the age of , George · Hoz has a guitar pick in his left hand , A screwdriver in the right hand , One person spent 500 We cracked the first generation in an hour iPhone.

After cracking , George · Hotz then announced on his blog that he had cracked iPhone.

“ My program doesn't exceed tens of megabytes like other programs , This is the real prison break software .”

And in their own blog published a detailed cracking process and video .

And George · Hotz's software is famous purplerain（ Purple rain ）.

The size of the software is even larger than that of the software c++ Compiling “HelloWorld” The program is still small .

Once this video is sent out , It set off a storm on the Internet .

It was the world's first cracked version iPhone More than 100% of video hits 200 ten thousand .

George · Hotz was also known as “ Magic boy ”“ Men who dare to challenge jobs ”.

Got the network propaganda , George · Hotz put his cracked cell phone on the Internet eBay Go to auction .

But because someone was bidding maliciously at that time , The auction price was raised to more than $100 million .

Although George · Hotz didn't end up here eBay It was sold at auction ipone.

But in the end, he traded the cracked phone for a Nissan 350Z The sports car （07 North American price 55-58 ten thousand RMB about ） And three unsolved movies iPhone mobile phone .

And as the founder of apple, jobs was very important to George · Hotz's solution iPhone His attitude has been surprisingly silent and tolerant .

Maybe it was the love between heroes that kept jobs silent （ Jobs cracked the telephone network in high school , Even posing as secretary of State Henry · Kissinger called the Vatican , after FBI Found jobs' cracked phone ）, Or maybe jobs took George · Hotz's behavior is seen as a right iPhone It's a kind of propaganda .

How many times iPhone after , George · Hotz refused to see himself when he saw jobs , I didn't even speak .

George in boredom · Hotz wrote on his blog ：“ My life is more than just iphone, It's just one of my interests , Now I have other more important things to do .”

Without George · Hotz, this one “ Black powder ”, I don't know if jobs is happy or sad .

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When your opponent doesn't attack anymore , Don't rush to be happy , He may be looking for an opportunity to enlarge .

After high school, George · Hotz went to Rochester Institute of technology to study bioengineering .

George, who has studied in University for several years, is at ease · Hotz is not alone, of course .

One day , Hotz wrote a sentence on his blog ：“ It's time ”.

Just a few weeks later , Sony （sony） It's known as an iron wall , No one can crack it in three years ps3, It was cracked by Hotz .

This time, Hotz wrote a cracking program , Up to 500 lines . And it's called Finnegan wake night （ The story is about a brick worker falling from a ladder , Everybody thought he was dead , But unexpectedly came to life , But everyone insisted that the workers rest in peace , If you are interested, you can understand ）.

Once the attack was launched , Sony immediately released a system patch .

But Hotz quickly cracked the patched code ps3, And master ps3 The key of .

Sony is not as tolerant as jobs .

A paperback immediately put George · Hotz went to court .

The court upheld Sony's case , It was ruled that Holtz could no longer crack Sony's products or spread cracking information , At the same time, Sony has the right to monitor Hotz's presence Paypal The account of .

however , More important , It's also a big loss for Sony .

Sony has the right to get the addresses of video viewers and downloaders .

This move has undoubtedly angered countless people , And attracted the world famous hacker organization at that time Annoymous Revenge of .

Anonymous It's a global, anonymous non-governmental organization .

In order to make North Korea abandon its nuclear program, it once broke into North Korea's local intranet 、 Mailbox server and network server , And threatened a deeper cyber attack on North Korea .

Uganda has legislated against homosexuals ,Anonymous Attacked the websites of two government agencies in Uganda .

He also attacked a man who had made a statement on a radio program in the United States “ White supremacy ” Personal website of the host of the speech , For this reason, the host paid a huge loan fee .

Sony has also paid for its actions ,Anonymous It's black Sony and Playstation Its official website .

Playstation Network It was closed for a month , It's caused 1.71 $100 million loss .

Annoymous Some of these extremists even harass Sony staff .

And George, the protagonist of this thing · Hotz

I am extremely worried about this , And online appeal Anonymous To stop sony The company's attack .

Maybe it's just being forced Anonymous The pressure of the ,Sony The company reached a settlement with Hotz within a month ,Sony The company gave up all responsibility for Hotz .

Not even compensation , Just ask hoz not to crack anything after that sony Related products of the company .

Later, when the reporter interviewed hoz , Hotz said with a smile ：“ Hackers are a group of people with computer technology , And technology is innocent , I won't post cracking information on the Internet any more , I've graduated from this ”.

After the sony After the dispute ,sony Hotz was also invited to the US headquarters , Ask him for ps3 Engineers give lectures .

Mentally , Hotz is experiencing Sony After the dispute , I have graduated .

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After this dispute , Hotz also officially announced “ retire ” 了 , A lot has also been done “ normal ” My business and work .

“ normal “ Things like ：

Released a nearly omnipotent Android root Tools towelroot;

stay Pwn2Own Up lookup Firefox Browser vulnerability Award 5 Ten thousand dollars ;

Release first iPhone 3GS Prison Break Software “ Purple rain （Purplera1n）;

To participate in Pwnium, Live cracking Chromebook Win back 15 Ten thousand dollars ;

stay Pwn2Own Up lookup Firefox Browser vulnerability Award 5 Ten thousand dollars ;

Take part in a four person team safety competition in South Korea , Frenzy 3 Thousands of dollars .

those “ normal ” The job of , for instance ：

I was in Google,Facebook,SpaceX After a period of work .

But as Hotz goes to more companies , The more disappointed he was with these big companies , That's what Hotz said at the end “ Ordinary ”.

When commenting on these companies , Hotz said ：

“ stay Google when , I find that senior R & D personnel are often assigned to do boring little things , For example, the browser compatibility of the website ”.

“ stay Facebook AI technology talents gather together , I'm just racking my brains to think about how to attract users to click on ads ”.

A friend once put George · Hotz introduced to Spacex Ellen, President of · musk .

They had a good talk at the beginning , talk about AI Advantages and disadvantages of Technology , And planning for the future .

Musk is very appreciative of Hotz , Open a contract immediately , Invite Holtz to Tesla to develop driverless Technology .

But in the end, musk asked Hotz to win in the test Mobileye Driverless technology , Only in this way can we offer a good deal .

Hotz thinks it's a sign of Musk's distrust of himself , Lack of sincerity , He refused Musk's invitation .

And in the end said ：”Mobileye Our technology has fallen behind , When I develop my own system , The first one to crush is you .“

The negotiation failed , Musk has no choice but to smile .

From this conversation with musk , Hotz also aroused the vision and passion for driverless technology .

Self driving system has been developed in the garage at home .

But driverless technology is not something to conquer .

Google , Years of Tesla development , Put in a lot of money , We didn't develop the driverless technology to a mature stage .

But just five months later ,

George · Hotz invited a reporter for the business week Ashlee Vance（ Business Week is a media with high credibility in the industry , It's the top business magazine in America ） To test the results of five months .

When Ashlee Vance When I got to Hotz's garage , A car has been parked in the garage 2016 Honda AcuraILX.

Ashlee Vance The first thing you see is a lidar on the roof .

The front and rear of the car are equipped with sensors and six cameras , The driving video recognition equipment is composed .

Two at the back of the car , One on each side , A fish eye camera with a large viewing angle is also installed on the roof .

And these cameras are all removed from six mobile phones , The cost per piece is only 13 dollar .

See this Ashlee Vance Immediately confused , And cast a puzzled look at Hotz .

Hotz understood at once Ashlee Vance Eyes , And start the engine ：“ Get on the train ！”

When Ashlee Vance When entering the cab , The most obvious one is an external one 21.5 Inch Dell tablet as output display .

Listen to hoz tell us that hoz hacked into the central control system of Honda , To get a thorough grasp of the steering wheel , throttle , brake .

And use ready-made intel NUC Mini host as a car server , The gear lever of this car was removed from the game handle by Hotz , As the starting switch of the automatic driving system. .

Hotz's car is officially on the road , And in California, a city with a lot of people 280 State Highway , Carrying reporters to 105km/h We're cutting in at the same speed S Shape curve , pass with flying colors .

But at the end of the second turn , A small accident also proves that there is still something to be improved in hoz's AI driving .

At the end of the traffic , The car suddenly rushed to one on the right SUV, But it quickly corrected the line .

After a dangerous test drive ,Ashlee Vance Ask Hodges what happened when he first started .

Said Hotz ：“ That was the first time , We just witnessed it together .”

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Hotz wrote cracking software for the first time purplerain when , Program only c++ in helloworld length .

Crack ps3 It took 500 lines .

So you know the hardware cost of this Hotz car “ the height is ”1000 Artificial intelligent driving system of US $1 , How many lines of code did Hotz use ？

2000 That's ok .

2000 What's the concept ？

It is said that a BMW x5 There are 300 million lines of software code , A Tesla only needs 1000 Line ten thousand , The gap between Tesla and BMW is like 2008 Saipan and ios The difference in the number of lines of code .

What about hoz's AI driving system ？

also , Hotz's 2000 Line code , I didn't violate any traffic regulations , And some collisions .

Hotz also said ：” my 2000 Line code does not create a default rule , The default rule has fatal defects , After all, there are too many emergencies and uncertainties in reality , Preset rules don't exhaust all possibilities , My AI driving is a self-learning AI system .“

Hotz believes that if you want to make a good AI, you have to do this .

AI also needs to start driving by observing others, just like we do , Then the system can learn well .

In the first , In order for the system to learn human driving habits , Hotz is like a teacher .

Driving for more than ten hours , Let the system learn its own behavior pattern .

Next, in order to let his system learn to learn different learning in different road conditions .

Hotz even plans to be one for a while Uber The driver , We hope to build a world-class automatic driving system. .

Last , Hotz, of course, did not forget to post his latest achievements on his blog .

Hotz's video hits are as good as they were then iPhone At the same , Break millions again .

I don't know when musk heard the news , What do you think .

stay 2016 year , Hotz founded a company called comma.ai The company .

Even in the near future , And Hotz got it from VC Andreessen Horowitz Of 310 Ten thousand dollar investment .

The world's largest auto parts supplier Delphi、 The world's largest graphics chip company NVidia They all come to Hotz for cooperation .

This is no doubt a sign of the outside world's support for George · Trust in Hotz's ability .

Musk said ：“ To develop accuracy 99% It's relatively easy to build a new machine learning system , But if you want to improve to 99.9999% But it's harder than going to heaven . It takes a lot of resources , Millions of miles of tests in various road conditions to check for errors .“

But with George · Hotz's intelligence ,5 Write the first program of life at the age of 20 , You can use it in fifth grade Radio Shack Build your own game console .

When he was in high school, he could hack the school computer all at once , Let them play Beethoven at the same time 《 Symphony No. 9 》.

17 At the age of , He cracked the first generation iPhone.

18 At the age of , He made it to the final of Intel International Science and Engineering Fair .

21 At the age of , He took Sony in five weeks PS3 Of .

26 At the age of , He made his own AI driving system .

And now , Will Hotz, just over 30 years old, usher in an era of artificial intelligence ？

Maybe , The age of artificial intelligence has taken shape in Hotz's hands .

In the game 2077, It's not far from us .

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