When we were fifteen we were too busy smoking Winstons behind
the Country Fair on Pennsylvania state route 99 to do anything
of real value for society, so perhaps that's why whenever we
cover one of these "teenager does good" stories it's with a
slight tinge of regret. Ari Weinstein, the precocious spawn of a
real-estate developer and a social worker, says he began his
career as a "hacker" at the age of 7 when he figured out how to
get around AOL's parental controls. Since then its only been
onward and upward for the lad, who has since made short work of
the iPod mini, the iPod touch (which led to the development of
iJailbreak) and, with as a member of the Chronic Dev Team, the
iPhone 3GS. Now, according to the Wall Street Journal, "he's
going legit, as he spends his summer tooling up a new app."
Sure. As we know, once the hacking bug bites, there's no going
back to the straight world. That is, until AriX (as he's known
on the street) discovers girls. Jailbreaking fans, please enjoy
a rather confused (and wil