The bounty hunter: An engineering student who bypassed Apple's activation lock

Kerala's Hemanth Joseph is now the poster boy for a young community of ethical hackers

Nikita Puri  December 9, 2016 Last Updated at 21:08 IST

For the past few days, Hemanth V Joseph finds himself pausing before he answers an unknown phone number, or even when he gets a new message on Facebook. Ever since Joseph blogged about how he bypassed tech giant Apple’s iPad activation lock, requests to unlock iPhones, iPads and iPods have been pouring in from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan and the United States.   The 21-year-old is a final -year student of mechanical engineering at Amal Jyothi Engineering College, Kanjirappally, Kerala. Keeping up with the ever-evolving cyberspace and exposing its vulnerabilities is “just ...

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The bounty hunter: An engineering student who bypassed Apple's activation lock