Teenager Cracks I-Phone Code

[launderess]

For everyone who sits sitting on their keysters and accepts things as they are, one enterprising young lad was mad as hell and didn't want to take it anymore; so he did something about it:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20429911/

 

[launderess]

Teen is auctioning off two "cracked" phones on eBay, where last one looked it was going for over 15,000 USD.

Young man heads off to college this weekend, and one thing is certian, he is going to go far in life.

 

[whirlcool]

Which leads to auctions such as this. You can now pay $9.95 for the privledge of knowing how to hack an Ipod!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-iPhone-Un...ryZ64355QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[goprog]

Yeah, $9.95 when one can just go to the authors for free?
Sort of like Bill Gates taking advantage of the original
developer of the PC OS (and then turning it into Windows.)

http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/

 

[launderess]

Channeling Jimmy Durante

Everybody wants to get in on the act! Ah-cha,cha,chaaaaa!

 

[maytagbear]

Does anyone else

find this to be morally shaky, if not downright illegal?

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[launderess]

You Gotta Admire a Boy With Stick-To-Itness

Actually there does not seem to be anything illegal about what the lad has done. You cannot stop someone from doing something with an appliance/electronic device they already own. The only exception to this (at least in the United States), is when it violates copyright laws, and so far the lad has only figured out a way to use the phone on his phone network (T-Mobile), instead of the assigned AT&T.

By all accounts the boy is very bright and would fit in well here. Began taking things apart at about six years of age, including a vacuum cleaner.

There is nothing morally "shakey" about it,no more than adjusting the factor pre-set water level on a modern washing machine, or any of the other modifications many here make on their own appliances.

L.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/25/MNSARP0MN.DTL&tsp=1

 

[andrewinorlando]

Nothing wrong with what he did....it's progress. Don't anyone believe for a second that competitors do not regularly diassembel and re-assemble the competitions products....be it cars, appliances, computers, etc., to see how they work and how to one-up their competition. It's done every single day, and good for consumers that it is!

 

[petek]

Frankly I find it all rather boring and shall relegate it to the trash pile of my mind along with reports and sightings of Star Jones, the Paris etc etc.. LOL

 

[decodriveboy]

L.

"There is nothing morally "shakey" about it,no more than adjusting the factor pre-set water level on a modern washing machine, or any of the other modifications many here make on their own appliances."

YOU KNOW I COULD NOT AGREE WITH YOU MORE!

 

[goprog]

I see nothing wrong with it. And he spent months (along with
a group of people apparently) using his brain to work on this.
Nowhere near the same category of exploiting T & A.

 

[JerseyMike]

He lives about a half hour north of me ...

Here's the local newspaper's article:

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php...FeXk3MTg1NjEzJnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mw==

 

[whirlcool]

He says the work he did isn't illegal. He said the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 allows phones to be unlocked.

So that takes care of that. I'm betting that Apple is fuming over this as I am sure that somewhere along the development line somebody somewhere paid for an "exclusivity" contract so the phones would only work on AT&T services. Now that exclusivity contract is worthless.

 

[alexb1186]

For someone like me who loves Apple products

I'm not a big iPhone fan, cause if I want internet, I have to do it on a 14.1 widescreen.

I saw that he had on eBay the "Second unlocked iPhone" and Friday afternoon it was at $3500, then it jumped to 160 bids and 100 MILLION dollars in the evening (no joke, shoulda screenshot it). He did call eBay to find out if the bids were fake, and later it got taken down cause of an "error in the listing"