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According to a report at Redmond Pie, Apple has started to ban certain users from accessing the app store, if they’re active in the hacking community. Hacker “Sherif Hashim” who discovered the iPhone OS 3.1.3 exploit to unlock the  05.12.01 baseband has been banned. On his twitter account, he said:

“Your Apple ID was banned for security reasons”, that’s what i get when i try to go to the app store, they must be really angry  :))))

and guess what my apple ID was, “sherif_hashim@yahoo.com”, what a fool was me not to notice )), can’t help laughing, they are babies ))”

The man behind Sn0wbreeze, an unlocker for windows made by  iH8sn0w was hit by the same troubles, saying:

“@sherif_hashim lol, they did that to my ih8sn0wyday[@t]googmail.com too. (right after I posted XEMN)…”

It seems like Apple is taking a harder line against hackers, which might trickle down to jailbreakers too. The problem is that it’s impossible to stop hackers, as people—rightfully—want to be able to control the devices they own.

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