The 21-year-old Australian guy who got chewed out by his parents for launching the first iPhone worm landed a job with an app company.
Ashley Towns wrote Ikee, calling it an “experiment that got out of hand,” a worm that switched iPhone wallpaper for an image of 80s pop singer Rick Astley. Astley, who sang the 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up,” who morphed into the Internet prank known as “Rickrolling.” The bait-and-switch worm replaces an ordinary video with one of Astley.
The day after the worm infected jailbroken iPhones, Towns said he had received a death threat, media attention and job offers.
