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Hotz collaborated online with a large number of people to develop the unlocking process. Of the smaller core group, two were in Russia.
"Then there are two guys who I think are somewhere US-side," Hotz said. He knows them only by their online handles.
Hotz himself spent about 500 hours on the project since the iPhone went on sale. On Thursday, he put the unlocked iPhone up for sale on eBay, where the high bid was at US$12,600 late on Friday. The model, with 4 gigabytes of memory, sells for US$499 new.
"Some of my friends think I wasted my summer, but I think it was worth it," he told the Record of Bergen County, which reported Hotz's hack on Friday.
Hotz headed for college yesterday. He plans to major in neuroscience -- or "hacking the brain" as he puts it -- at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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