Teen Trades Hacked iPhone for Car

ok so you guys aren't looking at the big picture. Dude man is only 17. If someone offered you a job making $100,000/yr wouldn't you take it? Reminder think like a 17 year old kid.. a car, new cell phones, and a job that starts out making six figures... I would have jumped at that deal. Anyway, I'm sure he has a contract with CertiCell. Who knows what that contract is... I'm sure an attorney was involved.. He nor his parents could be that stupid. I say yeah he might have jumped the gun cashing in, but its ultimately his call. Obviously, he felt that this was right for him.

Kid needs to save enough money to pay Federal Income Taxes, IRS agent.

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Mr. Holltz : Haste makes waste, you should have waited a little longer tazzoun.

Ya'll better be careful before AT&T, put a hit out on ya'll. Messing around with peoples money and business will have you a victim of a cold case.

Why are people seriously making such a hype over a damn phone? Give me a fucking break...

i agree with jason. why should a smarty pants be rewarded for doing something that is very wrong.

This is about ETHICS and CRIMINALITY. This is INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE (SPYING, OR THE USE OF SPIES TO OBTAIN MILITARY, POLITICAL, SCIENTIFIC, INDUSTRIAL ETC. SECRETS).

For this kid to be given the rewards listed above is a sad commentary on how low some people are willing to go and how bankrupt morally we have become.

He needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. This is no different than the employee at COKE who stole the formula from the company and tried to sell it to their rival.

Things will be destroyed or stolen over time money will be gone but who you are and how you conduct yourself will follow you all your life. It doesn't just impact YOU.

I hope people will boycote CERTICEL for contributing to this criminal behavior.

There is a Patent infringement and this guy is setting himself and these companies up for a huge lawsuit as well as jail. He doesn't have permission to alter a patented device from a multi-billion dollar company who has contractual agreements with a cellular company and sell this technology. There is a key word here, he "Hacked" into this device. Since when did hacking become legal? It's a matter of time before he hears a knock on his door.

Well it took him 500 hours and he got a 30K car...$60 bucks an hour for his time when the people he "sold" it to are going to make THOUSANDS.
Dumb kid! He could have sold the hacked phones on Ebay for hundreds of dollars a piece.
Personally I don't think he did anything wrong, there s no copyright on the digital devises which is why it is NOT illegal to unlock a cell phone. As a matter of fact I believe there was a law passed not too long ago that service providers HAD to unlock your phone if you finished your contract and wished to take the phone to another carrier.
He isnt a thief...Apple really screwed themselves with the deal with AT&T seeing as the majority of peple have Tmobile, nextel/sprint and Verizon as carriers and I am NOT going to pay an early termination fee to switch over to AT&T just to get a crappy phone full of bugs.

He didnt steal anything, he worked over 500 hours to unlock the phone. He earned whatever he received. Give him a break... He is a kid.

Weather he could of made more money or not, it's his decision. Dont call him stupid, because he is smarter than most. I dont think its anyones business what he choses to do with his hard work. Maybe he doesnt want to be rich (we all know how well that works out with young people, i.e. Britney, Lindsay, etc.)

None of you were there to help him unlock the phone; therefore, he doesnt need none of your opinions of "what he should of done..."

first of all thank god , some one could stick it to apple, there stuff is junk they charge huge prices for... asnd it sounds like this JASON is jealous , alot of 17 year old kids do have cars, and it sounds like you didnt, i have AT&T and im not so excited about anything especially the damm bill, so im glad this kid did what he did , and im, sure he'll make alot more money, and as far as apple giving up money to him HUH , there all stuck ups that think there better than the rest of us

APPLE DOES SUCK I WIRK AT THE SARAMENTO PLANT WHERE THERE BOXED AND SHIPPED AND MADE IT A PILE OF CRAP 2ND THIS COUNTRY IS ABOUT FREE ENTERPRIZE ROCKFELLER WAS NOT HONEST NEITHER WAS VANDERBUILT ARE THE KENNENDYS ARE HUGH YOU DONT GET RICH BY BEING HONEST IF YOU BELIEVE THAT GROW DUMMIES DO YOU THINK THAT TRUMP GOT THERE BY BEING MR NICE GUY .I WILL SAY I WOULD HAVE HELD OUT FOR ATT TO GIVE A BUNCH OF SHUT UP MONEY ARE LEAST I WOULD VE GOT A PORCHE 959 BUT GEEKS DON T ALLWAYS THINK THAT WAY S

Just like all the other "unlocked" phones out there, this one will NOT get the internet either to download songs, email or any other internet function. So go ahead and pop your sim card in and start talking, as that is all the "unlocked" phone will do.

wo wu people that think he stole something are complete idiots, he didnt cheat th4e system, he rewrote the scipt inside of the phone, and reiwre it so that it will work for another provider, adn for that idiot far above me, its no like hacking into a bank or the NSA, he didnt hack through any firewalls, or other stufdf like that, he did a complicated version of a simple thing, and im not trying to put the kid donw, and if u think hes stupid for selling out, hes the only one to have done it, and he could do it again, its not all about the benjamins people, what he did was a great advancement in hacking

ISN'T THAT SKREACH FROM SAVED BY THE BELL??? (LOL)

This kid's parents really, really, really need to hire an attorney. He's going to be taken for a ride and it's not in his new car.

He only unlocked it on Tmobile from what I read and then you cant use visual voice mail. From what I hear Tmobile buys GSM services from At&T. So one hand washes the other and yet the consumer loses the voicemail service using the other cattier. Go figure

The boy should of kept his phone! and in returned get more money off the companies!!! I WOULD bargain atleast a 5-20 million dollar deal! Them damn companies kno they have too much money anyways, charging me up a storm on my cell phone..so I would of asked for atleast an million dollar deal! stupid kid didn't f#ckin think.. he could of bought the 350z with his millions.... DUMB ass deal hotz!

My question is this, how come he isn't going
to get in trouble for this?

i mean, aren't there laws concering things like this?

just wondering