Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Anonymous Programmers Reveal iPhone Unlocking Software

Posted by kdawson on from the good-luck-getting-paid dept.

CNN reports details of a group of anonymous programmers who are planning to sell iPhone unlocking software on the Internet. They demonstrated the software hack for CNN and had a T-Mobile sim card working moments after removing the AT&T sim card. This is bound to stir up a lot of controversy: in the US iPhones are supposed to work only on the AT&T network in the first two years according to their agreement with Apple.

8 of 328 comments (clear)

  1. God!! The Terrorists are going to kill us all...!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    These people should be neutralised immediately! No stone should be left unturned. Pull all the troops back from Afghanistan if we have to. Order another 500 Predators! Close down all interstate traffic!

    Won't someone think of the children? How can you sit quietly at home while this sort of vile attack on our American values is going on? I would happily help the Government slaughter half the population if that had the smallest chance of stopping this madness.....

  2. What's this free of which you speak? by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Yes, but we live in Europe, the Continent of the Free"

    Free? What? Do you mean you don't have to pay taxes to kill people in places you can't find on a map?

    1. Re:What's this free of which you speak? by SpaghettiPattern · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, but we live in Europe, the Continent of the Free

      Do you mean you don't have to pay taxes to kill people in places you can't find on a map?
      Don't want to brag and boast, but here in Europe we tend to know about geography. I.e. that California isn't the capital of Milwaukie.

      So, we pay taxes to kill people in places we actually can find on a map.

      Besides, thanks to the new phenomenon called "Internet" we also have a tool called Google maps.
      --

      I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
  3. Re:Maybe not anything by Chrisq · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmmm. In the UK people have been arrested for making bombs before they set them off!

  4. Re:God!! The Terrorists are going to kill us all.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I personally believe, that many U.S. Americans do not have, such as, an iPhone. We need to do more for other countries, like, South Africa, so they can have an iPhone too. In the spirit of cooperation with countries, such as, the Asian countries, we can benefit the children for a brighter future. Thank you.

    Oh, and Iraq!

  5. Anonymous sellers? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...group of anonymous programmers who are planning to sell iPhone unlocking software on the Internet.


    "Anonymous" sellers? How does that work - cash payments left under a bench somewhere?
  6. Re:locks make no sense by UnanimousCoward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, you just reaffirmed El Jobso's strategy: He ain't selling to you, he's selling to your wife.

    My wife uses an iPhone, but until I can legally program the damned thing, I'm not getting one.

    --
    Twelve-and-three-quarter inches. Unyielding. This wand belonged to Bellatrix Lestrange.
  7. Re:Atleast by noidentity · · Score: 4, Funny

    I live in America, the Continent of the Apathetic, but eh whatever.