How to Stop iPhone Hacking: Hire Your Own Hacker

The idea of unbricking and activating iPhone 3Gs before customers could leave the store was designed to prevent --- or at least reduce --- hacking of the (currently) most-desired cell phone on the market. Of course, what it really did was frustrate buyers, as it didn't take long for someone to unlock the phone.

Still, there's no reason to not continue to try, is there (aside from maybe better customer satisfaction)? As such, it's apparently Apple really wants to keep security tight on the iPhone, as this job posting indicates:

Requisition Number	3165685
Job title	iPhone Security Engineer
Location	Santa Clara Valley
Country	United States
City	Cupertino
State/Province	California
Job type	Full Time
Job description	Apple's CoreOS organization is looking for an exceptional individual to validate the security architecture for the iPhone. As an implementer of advanced technologies in OS X, you will have the opportunity to have a major impact on Apple's embedded operating system products. Our environment fosters product innovation, rapid product iteration, and a liberating amount of autonomy.

Some of the responsibilities include:

• Review and provide feedback on security mechanisms implemented in OS X
• Provide risk analysis of potential security threats to our embedded products
• Develop "proof of concept" attacks on the current security mechanisms
• Come up with new and innovative ways of increasing security while preserving ease-of-use and increasing the quality of the end-user experience.

It's that last one that caught my attention. "Increasing the quality of the end-user experience." Now that would be great, in that the next time we have a "can't miss" Apple launch, maybe, just maybe, it won't be quite so harrowing.

So, if you're tired of hacking iPhones without getting credit --- or at least any money --- here's your big chance.