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Apple’s App Store Ban Draws Laughs From iPhone Hackers

Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) iPhone hackers who have developed software that breaks AT&T (NYSE:T)’s exclusive U.S. carrier status are scoffing at Apple’s bid to ban them from the Apple iPhone App Store.

Sherif Hashim, an iPhone developer who developed a hack for the latest Apple iPhone OS 3.1.3, boasted in a Twitter post on Valentine’s Day at 7:21 p.m. that he received a message that his Apple ID was banned for “security reasons.”

“That’s what i get when i try to go to the app store, they must be really angry :))))),” wrote Hashim in his Twitter post.

“And guess what my apple ID was, “sherif_hashim@yahoo.com”, what a fool was me not to notice :))), can’t help laughing, they are babies :))),” tweeted Hashim at 7:23 pm.

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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.

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