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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.

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  1. Re:Run that buy me again? by RuBLed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you're in ancient Rome, you'd have to kill a lion first before you hear the Emperor say "Unlock his iPhone!"...

  2. Re:AT&T has no real claims by QuantumG · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is like the Lexmark case were they tried to use copyright law to prevent people from making cheap ink cartridges. The result was that the court ruled that Lexmark was engaged in copyright abuse and Lexmark lost all copyright protection on the code in question.

    http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/Lexmark_v_Static_Co ntrol/20030108_lexmark_v_static_control_components .pdf

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  3. How clever! by RonTheHurler · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    How clever of these folks to reverse engineer someone's work, then offer a modification for a price. I wonder how they'll feel when someone else reverse engineers their product (the un-locking software) and gives it away for free?

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