Apple says jailbroken iPhones endanger cell towers Apple has told the US Copyright Office that jailbroken iPhones could lead to crashed cell phone towers and drug dealers freely making anonymous phone calls. Cupertino loosed the hyperbole firehose on the Copyright Office in response to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's proposal to legalize the modification of the iPhone’s …
Fuzzy dice undermines the overall Ferrari experience, diminishing Ferrari's design copyrights and ultimately the overall value of the car and its ecosystem (presumably dust mites and other things that live in the car).
I propose they be made illegal along with leopard print anything and underlighting.
"Why are people not complaining when Microsoft and Sony stop the mod chips? this is "jailbreaking" the console."
Umm, they DO complain. A lot. People have and do boycott both companies over this too.
"Yet if Apple do it then it's wrong and control freakery."
Yes it is. In Apple's case they don't even have the lame arguments about it being possible to use this mod for piracy -- it's PURE control freakery on Apple's part.
"iPhone owners know the score when they buy the phone."
Yes they do. I advise people against getting the IPhone when they ask me (here in the US having to use GSM doesn't help, since the CDMA networks are MUCH MUCH better). Several people I know (as well as myself) have not considered an iphone due to how locked down it is.
...linking video pirates to drug dealers in the effort to stop people buying from pirates, or if you are known as someone selling copies of DVDs, then you are selling all sorts of illegal goods.
There are plenty of smart phones out there, that have been around for a long time and are more popular. Eg symbian, windows mobile.
I'm sure the GSM standards state that vendors must take precautions to stop people reverse engineering mobile phones, the radio standards definetly do. It not just cell sites that could be affected but any radio frequency one people hack about with the radio setup config anything can happen.
Still operators should be able to spot 'em and blacklist em easy enough.
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Then iPhones should be outlawed. It's nice when tired pseudo-logic works both ways.
"... a local or international hacker could potentially initiate commands (such as a denial of service attack) that could..." blah blah blah.
What's to stop an international hacker anyway? Does Apple understand the concept of jurisdiction, I know the US DOJ doesn't, but does Apple? What about the Copywrong Office? Gits, the lot of them.
And monkeys could potentially fly out Apple's arse.
By Onionman Posted Thursday 30th July 2009 08:38 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/29/apple_jailbreaking_patent_office_response/comments/#c_549347
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That was the joke/dig at apostrophe abusers, and also the usage that my English teacher drummed into me. Repeatedly. But humans are by their nature fallible, so I turned to that most infullable source...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Singular_nouns_ending_with_an_.22s.22_or_.22z.22_sound
Shall we just call that a no-score-draw on the pedantry front? I could do with a post-match beer, since I've not had any since, err, the rather hearty ales that helped fuel the rant in question!
Since one of the first things the Good Guys do in the event of a terrorist attack is to disable public cellphone use (both to leave the airwaves clear for Offical traffic, and to stop any Bad Guys using cellphones to talk to each other), one suspects that they (the Good Guys) can selectively disconnect certain Service Providers from the cell network.
Suddenly only having a single Service Provider for your shiny new toy doesn't seem such a good idea, does it?
As has been discussed elsewhere, if you want to take out a cellphone tower, an SUV or MPV or (even more effective) a hire van filled with stuff is much easier to obtain and is far easier to apply ot the spindly little comms masts cellphone towers usually use... or better yet, just go and hijack an articulated lorry or dumper (check out the local highway for your nearest free sample)
Right, now you are all In Possessesion of Information Of Use To Terrorists, please report to the local precinct house and watch endless reruns of '24', 'The Unit', 'MacGuyver' and all four 'Die Hard' flicks...
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