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Jobs' Next Fight — Dealing With iPhone Hackers

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the or-you-could-just-open-it-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With Steve Jobs' recent announcement of his intention to fight off the independent iPhone developers, the question worth asking is: How will Apple try to defeat the hackers: Software updates, or lawsuits? Will Apple risk losing its most frequently (ab)used legal tool, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in order to try and punish the developers of the iPhone unlocking tools? This CNET article explores the legal issues involved in this, which make it perfectly legal to reverse engineer your own iPhone, but illegal to share your circumventing source code with others."

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  1. Arr! by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny

    They be takin' on the Jolly Roger. I be thinkin' they be changin' the iPhone to detect meddlin' with their cabal. Add a checksum or something.

    Lawsuits be expensive.

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  2. We take off and nuke them from orbit... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Funny

    How will Apple try to defeat the hackers?
    "We take off and nuke them from orbit; it's the only way to be sure."
  3. Re:Easy to pay! by cez · · Score: 4, Funny

    You forgot the part where you argue that it's OK to break the law when it's convenient for you.


    yeah ummm, right right! Forgot that...sorry it's so hard to remember everything posting to slashdot while speeding, talking on my cell phone, typing on the unlocked iPhone I hacked - using un-authorized Wifi of course - and smoking god knows what (gotta love those end of the month specials my dealer puts together with uppers downers and inbetweeners) and a cigarette while this kid in the backseat won't stop spilling her jack and coke. (I'd say he was my kid, but the mom's only 14, so you know that wouldn't sound good.)

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