Well-known jailbreaker “winocm” announced today that he will be taking a job at Apple later this year.
When reached for comment, the 17-year-old hacker declined to elaborate on what his new role at Apple will entail. He also declined to provide his real name, which is a common theme amongst high-profile jailbreak hackers who prefer to hide behind their online pseudonyms.
While winocm did not work on the recent iOS 7 jailbreak, his expertise in reverse engineering iOS will undoubtedly make him a valuable asset at Apple.
Winocm recently helped put out a jailbreak for iOS 6.1.3-6.1.5 on older iPhones. He started contributing to the jailbreak scene in late 2011 with the launch of the iPhone 4S. Since then, he says he has “been doing insane things with iOS.”
In November of 2013, he singlehandedly%20ported%20the%20core%20of%20both%20OS%20X%20and%20iOS%20to%20non-Apple%20hardware.%20The%20port%20allowed%20him%20to%20run%20the%20core%20operating%20system%20beneath%20OS%20X%20and%20the%20iPhone%20OS%20on%20a Nokia%20N900.%20By%20rewriting%20the%20iPhone%20OS%20from%20the%20ground%20up,%20he%20was%20essentially%20able%20to%20create%20an%20open%20source%20version%20of%20the%20operating%20system.” data-lasso-id=”116681″>joined Apple as an intern in 2011 and has not been publicly involved in the world of jailbreaking since.
