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Global Stardom For The Iphone Hacking Teen

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Aug 27 2007 12:00am EDT

Global Stardom for the iPhone-hacking Teen

How amazing. On Thursday, a New Jersey teen, George Hotz, put up a blog post and video about how he'd become the first to hack into Apple's iPhone, unlock it from AT&T's network, and use it on T-Mobile's GSM network -- which also means it could be used on any GSM network worldwide.

The media has gone nuts -- more than 1,000 stories worldwide in English alone, from places as far afield as Bangkok , Australia, Netherlands and Canada.

It will be fascinating to see what happens to Hotz next.

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