Here's how you can hack yourself a OnePlus 2 invite

OnePlus finally launched the much awaited **OnePlus 2 flagship smartphone** at the world’s first VR launch event. Its absolutely aggressive pricing caught the attention of millions. In fact, the device hit the first **million invite registrations mark** within 72 hours. Given its hyped exclusive invite system, many users try and find the long-lost friend to get their hands on a OnePlus device. The innovation with which fans seek to get access to an invite has now turned a new leaf. According to Jake Cooper, a software engineer from Victoria, British Columbia there is a way to crack the invite system for the OnePlus 2. https://twitter.com/RealJakeCooper/status/628296501991596032 In a detailed post on Medium, Jake Cooper has explained how he was able to get himself a OnePlus 2 invite, not once but twice. Cooper created a Python script that works around the invite system and has decided to opensource it. He also created a repo for the code on GitHub. [caption id=“attachment_276216” align=“aligncenter” width=“640”] If you aren’t patient enough to wait for the OnePlus 2 invite, you could just hack your way through. Image: OnePlus[/caption] OnePlus invites are also being sold on ecommerce websites such as eBay, but Cooper has decided not to accept any payments for it. https://twitter.com/SaveFisher/status/628636486292926464 Here’s a case of ethical hacking by a fan to plug loopholes in the invite mechanism. Calling himself a fan, Cooper said, “I, like many others, scrambled to get a OnePlus One invite as soon as they came out. I was a loyal fan: I commented on the forums, I shared all the tabloid garbage with my friends, I even participated in their giveaways. I ended up just buying an invite from some random dude on XDA for $20. Needless to say, I’ve been pretty against the OnePlus invite system for a long time now.”

Expressing a familiar eagerness for the device, he added, “When the OnePlus Two rolled around, I made sure to be on the ball and put my email in early and secured position ~9000. However, with the invites for the OnePlus Two, OnePlus opted to allow users to jump the queue by referring their friends to the invite waitlist. Last night I checked my invite status and I was position > 70,000.”

Do let us know if you are able to get lucky with a OnePlus 2 invite.