It all started last night.  George put his newly hacked iPhone on eBay.  It started at $540.  Keep in mind there are other ways to unlock an iPhone, but he did it the hard(ware) way. 

This morning the phone was up to $2,000.  I thought wow.  Good for that kid.

At 3PM it was up around $4,000.  Huh.

Then the NY Times covered the story.  Cnn followed.  The phone jumped to over $10,000.  This was about 4:30PM.

I went to dinner, came back.  Now 6:30.  This is what I saw:

WHAT?

What happened?  Is Apple bidding on it? Does some company want to reverse engineer what he did?  The instructions on how to do it are on his blog, which is linked in the auction.

So what’s going on?  What’s the scam? 


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