Apple banned iPhone hackers are banned from entering app store

Two Apple iPhone hackers were banned from Apple’s App Store. In the messages sent to hackers- Sherif Hashim and iH8sn0w- it is said that Apple banned their IDs for security reasons. However, the hackers are not angry on Apple over revoking their IDs. Channel Web reports:

Sherif Hashim, an iPhone developer who developed a hack for the latest Apple iPhone OS 3.1.3, boasted in a Twitter post on Valentine's Day at 7:21 p.m. that he received a message that his 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 :)))))," wrote Hashim in his Twitter post.

"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 :)))," tweeted Hashim at 7:23 pm.

Toronto based iPhone hacker iH8sn0w developed XMEN, a tool to unlock “iPhone 3.1.3 radio baseband” for the 3G and 3GS. His twitter bio says that he gets beat up by his sister and eats donuts and is a genius. Hashim’s Twitter bio says that he is a neurosurgeon and iPhone basedband hacker.

Apple is further planning to ban all jailbroken iPhone from accessing the Apple App Store. This could be a big problem for the newly formed “Wholesale Applications Community,” announced at the Mobile World Congress this week. The “Wholesale Applications Community” has twenty four of the largest telecom carriers of the world as its member. The community has been formed to allow any smartphone application developer to develop an application and run it on any device of any carrier. AT&T, the carrier of Apple, is also a member of this community.