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Mod Your iPhone – For Fun or Profit?
by dc0de at 8:01 pm EDT, Sep 15, 2007 |
A little bit about locked phones. When you buy a cell phone (mobile) in the United States and several other countries, you are purchasing a piece of hardware (the phone) and software, and a relationship with a telecommunications provider. Typically, but not universally, the telecommunications provider will heavily subsidize the initial cost of the telephone in order to induce you to remain with or switch to them. After all, your 300 page phone bill can be for hundreds of dollars a month, so it’s natural for them to want you to stay. In fact, to cement this relationship, phone companies do two things. First, they make you sign a long-term (usually two-year) contract with substantial “early termination” of “liquidated damages” fees. For AT&T, this “fee” is at least $175.
This is a very articulate discussion of the "unlocked" iphone and ATT's Cease & Desist Letters... |
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RE: Mod Your iPhone – For Fun or Profit?
by noteworthy at 8:10 pm EDT, Sep 15, 2007 |
dc0de wrote: This is a very articulate discussion of the "unlocked" iphone and ATT's Cease & Desist Letters ...
Decius, you might want to jump in here ... this is worse than Schwartz at NYT. Here we have a columnist at SecurityFocus (*) writing this: Recently, it was revealed that several modders have “hacked” the iPhone to unlock it from the shackles of AT&T (though, unlike hackers, modders don’t obtain unauthorized access to anything).
So what is SecurityFocus? SecurityFocus is the most comprehensive and trusted source of security information on the Internet.
Furthermore, this particular columnist ought to know better: SecurityFocus columnist Mark D. Rasch, J.D., is a former head of the Justice Department's computer crime unit, and specializes in computer crime, computer security, incident response, forensics and privacy matters as Managing Director of Technology for FTI Consulting, Inc.
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RE: Mod Your iPhone – For Fun or Profit?
by Decius at 10:55 am EDT, Sep 16, 2007 |
noteworthy wrote:
dc0de wrote: This is a very articulate discussion of the "unlocked" iphone and ATT's Cease & Desist Letters ...
Decius, you might want to jump in here ... this is worse than Schwartz at NYT. Here we have a columnist at SecurityFocus (*) writing this: Recently, it was revealed that several modders have “hacked” the iPhone to unlock it from the shackles of AT&T (though, unlike hackers, modders don’t obtain unauthorized access to anything).
So what is SecurityFocus? SecurityFocus is the most comprehensive and trusted source of security information on the Internet.
Furthermore, this particular columnist ought to know better: SecurityFocus columnist Mark D. Rasch, J.D., is a former head of the Justice Department's computer crime unit, and specializes in computer crime, computer security, incident response, forensics and privacy matters as Managing Director of Technology for FTI Consulting, Inc.
Yeah, thats a rather irksome example, but like I said its a big fish to fry. |
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