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Apple: 'Jailbreak' iPhones Could Cripple Cell Phone Towers

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 29, 2009 - 11:57am.
Washington - Apple (NASD: AAPL) has cautioned in comments filed with the U.S. Copyright Office that allowing consumers to "jailbreak" the iPhone, or remove security that prevents applications not authorized by the company to run on the smartphone, could lead to cyberattacks on cell phone towers, Wired.com reported. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which submitted its own comments arguing that consumers should be allowed to jailbreak their mobile phones without fear of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, called Apple's claim a "theoretical threat," adding that homebrew applications can be run on open-source, Google Android-based T-Mobile phones.

 

Related Links:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/jailbreak/

Published in DMW Daily, July 29, 2009
tags: Mobile | Law | Policy | Apple | EFF | iPhone |



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