Google's Elite Security Team

When Apple launched(发布) the iphone through an exclusive partnership(独家合作伙伴) with AT&T in 2007, seventeen-year-old George Hotz wanted to use an iphone but not with AT&T. He wanted to make calls through his own T-Mobile network, so he cracked(破解，破裂) AT&T's lock on the iphone.Apple scrambled to fix the bug that allowed this, but officially ignored George Hotz.

Later in 2011, Hotz reverse engineered the PlayStation 3 and posted a copy of the root keys on his website. Sony sued(起诉，控告) him but settled(和解) after Hotz promised never to hack Sony products again.

Then in the early 2014, at Google's hacking competition(竞赛，比赛), Hotz discovered a security hole in the Google's Chrome OS.The company gave him a 150 000 reward(奖励).Two months later, Google's security engineer Chris Evants offered him a position in a team of elite hackers.George Hotz accepted the offer and now works for Google's security team Project Zero.