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- noun One who
breaks out ofjail .
Etymologies
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Examples
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After a short but rather storied history, infamous PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George "GeoHot" Hotz and Sony Computer Entertainment of America have settled their legal dispute, with a statement on the PlayStation Blog stating the two parties "reached an agreement in principle" around 10 days ago.
Sony Settles With Playstation 3 Hacker George Hotz The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Now, both Apple and AT&T are telling him that he's a jailbreaker and he can't have a new phone for 18 months — unless he's willing to get a new phone number.
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He was an exquisitely talented painter and sculptor who worked for popes and kings, a contemporary and acquaintance of Michaelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci; an incorrigibly opinionated boaster, duelist and brawler, an occasional jailbreaker (for that fast mouth of his got him in trouble more than once), and an indefatigable self-promoter and traveling PR show, with an ego the size of the planet.
OMG, how did I miss this?! | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006
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Man's a jailbreaker and out one day and another woman gets her throat slit?
The End of the Pier Grimes, Martha 1994
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That hacker is 19-year-old Nicholas Allegra of Chappequa, New York, a jailbreaker with a few notches against Apple under his belt.
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Facebook also recently hired famed iPhone jailbreaker and Sony PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz, who works on security issues.
CNET News.com 2011
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Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online SAN FRANCISCO - PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz must allow console-maker Sony to comb through his computer's hard drive and retrieve information "that relates to the hacking of the PlayStation," a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Wired Top Stories David Kravets 2011
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Similar offers have been extended to high-profile developers on other platforms, including iPhone jailbreaker George "geohot" Hotz.
Ars Technica Peter Bright 2011
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TechCrunch reports that the company hired another jailbreaker, Peter Hajas, in June; he's responsible for an app available through jailbreaking called
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But now it appears that despite their constant conflict, Apple has crossed the battle lines and offered a job - temporary though it may be - to a well-known jailbreaker.
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