A Russian hacker has discovered a simple method that makes in-app purchases on the iPhone and iPad free.The process is potentially damaging for Apple's iOS developers whose main revenue comes from the paid upgrades.
The hacker, who goes by ZonD80, posted a video on YouTube announcing his method and explaining how to do it. The video has been removed today by Apple Inc.
Your iDevice doesn't even need to be jailbroken in order to use the hack: You just need to download a couple of security certificates from ZonD80's website, change a single setting on your phone or tablet's Wi-Fi connection, and then you're done.
The Apple blog 9to5Mac has confirmed that the hack does work on several of its devices which run systems iOS3 to the up-coming iOS6.
