Comments on: A late-summer blog roundup

By: B

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:19:17 +0000

George Hotz is pretty much like a super hero to me and probably many others. Now I live very close to Rochester and have visited R.I.T several times while looking for a future college and never even knew he went there. How is this?

By: Point: Was our coverage too ‘Hotz,’ too cold or just right?

Point: Was our coverage too ‘Hotz,’ too cold or just right? — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:25:16 +0000

[...] Aug31 Mike Point: Was our coverage too ‘Hotz,’ too cold or just right?In a comment on a different post, a reader criticized our coverage of RIT student George Hotz,who’s credited with “cracking open” the iPhone. The reader (let’s call her/him “Annie”) thinks we could’ve done much more. But I say our coverage was just right. [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:39:53 +0000

I can’t believe that all RIT has had to say about George Hotz has been a vague reference for the purpose of shameless self-promotion. This blog is the only RIT-affiliated site that seems to have MENTIONED something that the whole world is looking at. Please correct me if I’m wrong. RIT gets no credit for getting lucky and receiving this student, and the university doesn’t have the guts to even form any kind of response or acknowledgment that anything has happened. As an alum, I was sort of proud to hear that such a smart guy on the edge of technological development/hackery will be going to the same school I did. And, not surprisingly, the most breaking university news item is about some RITers that competed in a Microsoft talent search. Whatever’s safe and looks good.

By: John Follaco

John Follaco — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:43:43 +0000

Certainly a lot of interesting stuff happening here the past few weeks. I’d like to commend Dr. Abi Aghayere for how he handled the Buffalo incident. Aghayere demonstrated true class. He made himself available to the media, accepted the senator’s apology and attempted to refocus attention to where it belongs—on the safety of bridges around the country.

By: Mike Saffran

Mike Saffran — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:21:00 +0000

Hey, Justin . . . No, to the best of my knowledge, George Hotz did it all—and because he posted the step-by-step unlocking procedure on his blog, my guess is the iPhoneSIMfree.com folks copied his method. George got all the press yesterday—and it would be simply too much of a coincidence if both he and iPhoneSIMfree.com accomplished the task on the same day. It’s just me, but I’d believe the 17-year-old kid with nothing to hide did it before the ‘team of experts’ that “wouldn’t tell us when and how they would release it to the public.”

By: Justin Thorp

Justin Thorp — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:19:13 +0000

Mike, George Hotz only did the Hardware unlock? Was he a part of this effort as well?
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/

By: Justin Thorp

Justin Thorp — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:34:23 +0000

Hey Mike! Thanks for the link to my blog post about Kim Diebolt. She has and continues to do great things on the RIT Campus. I love the idea of using blogs and the Web as a way of drumming up support for her and Campus Crusade for Christ.