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Speaker – Jay Freeman aka saurik

Jay Freeman, better known as saurik, is fondly referred to as the “Godfather of Jailbreaking”. He was an integral part of the team that first successfully jailbroke an iPhone. He is also the founder of Cydia, the Apple App Store alternative for jailbroken iPhones.

Follow Jay on Twitter @saurik

Posted in TEDxAmericanRiviera.


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  1. SquareWheel says

    I can’t wait to watch saurik’s talk. He’s a really brilliant guy.

  2. Pascal says

    I just hope he fixes Cydia soon :)

  3. Nick Sterner says

    Good luck!!!

  4. Ali says

    Now that Jailbreaking an iDevice is legal, we are all hopes that Cydia gets Integrated into the Apple iDevice as a Legit app.

    All the best to you Jay :)

  5. Moon says

    Pascal

    i hope that too !! :)

  6. Hese Mesa says

    … and upgrade Cycorder to iOS 4xx

  7. kultu says

    How/Where can we watch his talk?

  8. mario says

    great talk, but too much about cars:))
    do you remember stories like this one: http://lambdajive.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/isinglepayer-iphone-app-censored-by-apple/ ? apple is behaving like a global government, filtering information and forgetting freedom of speech.
    if china asks google to censor, it’s a tragedy. if apple decides to censor, it’s fine…..

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