Nicholas Allegra, who was hired last year after gaining fame at JailBreakMe, was let go after not responding to an e-mail offering to extend his employment.
Apple's experiment with employing a hacker
famous for jailbreaking the iPhone has ended.
Nicholas Allegra, also known as Comex, was
hired at Apple after gaining fame with the
JailBreakMe,a Web site that simplified the
process of removing Apple-installed
protections from the phone -- a practice Apple
opposes.When Apple hired him as an intern in
August 2011, Allegra was a high-profile member
of the jailbreaking community, regularly
publicizing security vulnerabilities in
Apple's iOS software.
However, Apple ended the 20-year-old Brown
University student's employment last week, Allegra revealed today.
"So... no point in delaying. As of last week, after about a year, I'm no longer associated with Apple," he tweeted this afternoon.
"As for why? Because I forgot to reply to an email," he wrote in a follow-up tweet.
