If you remember the good ol' iOS 4 days, then chanes are you might have heard of the famous iOS hacker and kernel guru, Nicholas Allegra who is better known as Comex in the jailbreak community. Nicholas was interning at Apple for about a year's time and was fired in October, 2012 as he din't reply to an official email on time! And now, according to a tweet from the veteran hacker's official Twitter account, he is going to work for Google in a very short span of time. Hit the jump to take a sneak peek at his official tweet and his major contributions.    

Nicholas Allegra

 Nicholas along with other members of the iPhone Dev Team had a major contribution in developing the JailbreakMe 3.0 userland iOS 4 jailbreak, one of the most easiest jailbreaks ever in the history of jailbreaking. 

 He is without doubt one of the most skilled iOS hackers and penetration testers around. Moreover, his knowledge of hacking into iOS kernels was just unmatched and unparalleled. Ion1c aka Stefan Essar once rightly said that jailbreaking has become much more tougher because of Comex leaving the jailbreak community and working for Apple. Take a look at the tweet below...

P0sixninja, member of the Chronic Dev Team and Dream Team, asked him if he would be hacking iPhone or Android in the future or not ? Nicholas denied it straight away...   


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