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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