Nicholas Allegra lives with his parents in Chap-paqua, NY. The tall, shaggy-haired, bespectacled 19-year-old has been on leave from Brown University since last winter, looking for an internship. And in the meantime he's been spending his days on a hobby that periodically stuns the computer security world seeking out cracks in the source code of Apple's iPhone, a device with more software restrictions than practically any computer on the market, and utterly obliterating its defenses against hackers. "It feels like editing an English paper," Allegra says simply, his voice croaking as if he just woke up, though we're speaking at 9:30 p.m. "You just go through and look for errors.
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