Famous for being the first person to hack the iPhone in 2007, George Hotz volunteered to work at Twitter for 12 weeks as an intern. His goal is to fix the social network’s search feature, but he also wants to remove the prompt that appears when someone tries to browse the site without being logged into an account. It didn’t take long for Elon Musk to accept the interesting proposal.
After considering Elon Musk’s demands for a more hardcore culture on twitter something that “build amazing things“, George Hotz decided to slap his face.
The famous hacker volunteered for an intern role on the bird’s social network. Financially speaking, he only asked for the cost of living in San Francisco, something far removed from what he is used to receiving in his works.
It’s obvious that the CEO of Twitter saw the opportunity and jumped at it instantly. Thus, Elon Musk replied in a short and to the point: “Sure, let’s talk”.
As the billionaire is in urgent need of professionals for the site, even more so after the breakupit’s not surprising that he’s taking all the help that comes his way.
The main objective of GeoHot (known nickname of the former hacker) is to fix the platform’s search feature. He wants to improve search performance and make it easier for the user to find advanced modifier functions. Also, the search would need to be less demanding of the person typing the exact word they are looking for.
However, the professional does not want to stop there. He considers the login prompt that comes up every time someone “walks around” on Twitter without being logged in to be “ruining the internet”. That is, he wants to remove this feature as soon as possible.
Hotz Pioneered Jailbreaking and Unlocked the PS3
In 2007, the young hacker managed to be the first person in the world to unlock an iPhone. This brought him great notoriety and an even larger following.
Its pioneering spirit opened doors for many jailbreaking enthusiasts, but it also brought headaches for professionals.
In the year 2010, GeoHot decided to retire from the unlock area🇧🇷 He stated that his hobby has become an obligation, with many charges arising from all sides. Furthermore, his well-known arrogance also appeared at this time, saying in his blog at the time:
I miss the days when jailbreaking and unlocking was difficult, they attracted much higher caliber people.
However, it wasn’t long before George came out of retirement to perform one more act: hack and unlock the PlayStation 3 encryption keys🇧🇷 The console was famous for being difficult to “hack”.
Of course, Sony didn’t like that at all. As a result, the Japanese company tried to file a lawsuit against the hacker in order to prevent the master key from spreading further.
Shortly thereafter, both Sony and George Hotz reached an agreement and ended the legal situation in which they found themselves.
Hacker turned entrepreneur and now is an intern
After his retirement from the hacker world, Geoge Hotz worked at Facebook between 2011 and 2012. The professional went through Google in 2014 and at startup Vicarious in 2015.
He then founded the company Comma.ai, which was building vehicle automation technology based on machine learning. However, GeoHot announced that he left the company in October 2022.
Before becoming Twitter’s most famous intern, the former hacker announced his new firm, which develops software for artificial intelligence chips. For now, let’s wait for the changes he wants to implement in the bird’s social network. He is 12 weeks old.
With information: The Verge and TechCrunch🇧🇷
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