Slap Steve Jobs in the face! Drive Sony crazy! Start a world war on the Internet! Does this guy want to die?

Hackers are just people with computer skills.

Technology is innocent.

You may think the above sentence is talking about Qvod?

But it is not!

His name is George Hotz .

You may not have heard of him.

But if you have tinkered with Apple jailbreak,

Then you really have to thank him!

He is not only handsome, but also has outstanding IQ.

Born in 1989, only 28 years old this year,

However, they played the major Internet giants around.

With just a screwdriver,

The first iPhone became a full network compatible device.

Just because it's too boring,

I hacked the Sony game console.

Sony was forced to take him to court.

It also set off a world-class hacker war.

His story starts with Steve Jobs.

In 2007, the first iPhone was launched.

But Mr. Joe signed an agreement with the largest operator in the United States.

The iPhone can only be used on the AT&T network.

George, who was 17 at the time, was not convinced.

Why can only people who use AT&T network use iPhone?

So he used a screwdriver,

It took only 500 hours to crack the iPhone core baseband.

Make iPhone compatible with all networks.

He cracked the world's most secure mobile phone.

The cracking method was published online.

At that time, the number of clicks exceeded 2 million.

AT&T, the only iPhone carrier, is devastated.

He also put the cracked iPhone up for auction online.

Because someone maliciously hyped it up.

The price was hyped up to 100 million.

But in the end he still used this iPhone to exchange it for

A sports car and three unlocked iPhones.

From then on, George became famous.

In the following years,

Brother George has launched jailbreak programs for new iPhones.

Until 2010,

Without warning, he posted on his personal homepage,

Announced that iPhones will no longer be jailbroken.

This result made Apple breathe a sigh of relief.

I thought George was really going to quit.

Before the big guys could catch their breath,

He extended his "claws" to the Sony PS3 game console,

The PS3 game console is said to be indestructible.

It has never been cracked in the three years since it was released.

And George has actually been coveting it for a long time.

5 weeks, 500 lines of code,

The PS3 was cracked.

Even if Sony technicians immediately updated the system patch,

But George quickly cracked the new system.

This time you can not only uninstall the original system,

You can also play pirated games.

And very kind.

Posted the cracking tutorial online.

Sony is obviously not as generous as Mr. Joe.

After seeing the cracking tutorial, I became furious.

Sued George for copyright infringement and computer fraud.

The final ruling of the court is:

George is not allowed to crack Sony products anymore.

Or spread crack information,

And Sony is entitled to,

Decrypt videos IP addresses of viewers and downloaders.

This move directly triggered netizens.

Including the world's largest hacker group Anonymous,

Very angry about Sony's move.

How powerful is this hacker group?

They have hacked into the US FBI and many governments.

And escape without leaving a trace.

However, what happened next made netizens very happy.

Anonymous quickly hacked into the official websites of Sony and PlayStation.

And stole the personal data of more than 100 million Sony users,

All services were forced to shut down for a month.

The direct economic losses caused were US$172 million.

Even Nintendo and Sega were not immune.

Even George didn't expect that

Just because I hacked the PS3,

It actually became the fuse of the world cyber war.

After the hacking incident,

He realized that his ability was not a bargaining chip for showing off.

He still has the opportunity to bring a lot of changes to the world.

But is this change good or bad?

In his hands,

After this he chose to retire.

But he will still participate in some safety competitions later.

To earn some pocket money.

For example, participating in pwnium,

Did you win $150,000 by hacking Chromebook on the spot?

Find Firefox browser vulnerabilities on Pwn2Own.

Received $50,000 in prize money,

Even one person participated in a four-person team safety competition,

Won a reward of 30,000 US dollars.

George, who has "turned over a new leaf", has also started working

His footprints are all over Google, Facebook and Space.

These companies that others try their best to get into,

He wandered around everywhere.

until one day,

He set his sights on the driverless technology that Musk was researching.

So George came to Carnegie Mellon University to study for a doctorate.

During the period of school, the average score of each course was above 4.0.

After graduating in 2015, I went to an AI company.

Study real-world AI technology.

When Max learned that this genius was going to intervene,

He was immediately offered a very generous contract.

Invite him to Tesla to study driverless technology,

But George did not accept the contract.

He believes that Tesla is researching

The driverless technology is too low.

Full of loopholes,

So he decided to design a system himself.

Crush Tesla.

So he started researching in his garage.

Unmanned driving technology can be divided into four stages:

Stage 1: Cruise control;

Stage 2: Adaptive cruise control;

Phase 3: 99% automation;

The fourth stage is driverless driving.

Tesla and Google have been researching this for several years.

But it still stays in the second stage.

The unmanned driving system developed by George himself,

The start is in the third stage.

And on a heavily traveled highway in California,

Successfully passed the unmanned driving test.

Musk was so worried about this that he lost his appetite.

Because George's system is not only capable of adaptive control,

And it can also be used in highway scenarios.

Enables lane keeping, pedestrian detection, collision warning, and more.

And the entire system has only 2000 lines of code.

I used 6 mobile phone cameras.

Equipped with ready-made electronic components,

The hardware cost is only $1,000.

Tesla's announced price for its self-driving car is $8,000.

This is not the point.

The point is that this system is compared with Tesla's driverless car.

There aren't so many rules.

He can be like a human being,

Comprehensively process visual signals through cameras.

Install this system,

Your car is like driving yourself.

You can also actively learn driving techniques.

George Hotz's current plan is,

Is to seek partners,

This black technology is integrated into a smart product.

Can be easily installed on any car.

George, who is only 28 years old this year,

Have you cracked an iPhone?

Challenged Sony,

Major Internet giants have also been there.

Finally, I am ready to overthrow Tesla.

This legendary life continues.

If you have any ideas,

Then just go for it.

As long as you don't break the law,

You will have your own legend!

Source | Another beam of light

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