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Apple might be banning iPhone hackers

Apple might be banning iPhone hackers

Uh oh, look out jailbreakers and hackers of San Francisco; it appears that maybe Apple has had enough. In such an iPhonecentric city like this one, there are probably more than a few of you out there that have begun to sweat bullets. Before you do, calm down because it’s too early to tell if this is an isolated incident or something big in the making.

Coming on the heels of the release of OS 3.1.3 and the subsequent jailbreak released shortly afterwards, it appears, courtesy of a report by Redmond Pie, that Apple has begun cracking down on developers/hackers associated with exploiting the iPhone OS.

Sherif Hashim who recently found an exploit for the latest version of the iPhone OS has apparently been banned for security reasons by Apple. The picture you see there is what he sees when he tries to enter the iTunes App Store.

Bummer.

Similarly, a hacker named iH8sn0w confirmed that the same thing happened to him.

Of note, brought up by Gizmodo, is the fact that Hashim’s exploit was brought to the public forum while iH8sn0w’s has only been revealed to Dev Team, the group responsible for the PwnageTool and so on.

So the real question here is:

Is Apple starting to ban those associated with jailbreaking?

The answer is probably not. If they did, they certainly lose plenty of customers to phones like the Nexus One however it definitely would put an iron grip on those who pirate free software. The details of what is going on remain extremely murky but maybe they are taking down some of the bigger players. It is kind of surprising that two people associated with jailbreaking have had this happen to them so soon after one another, but it’s too early to say if this is a campaign that Apple is starting up.

If it were to happen one thing is for sure.

There would be far less iPhone’s on the streets of San Francisco and elsewhere.

You can bet on that.

[Thanks: http://www.examiner.com]