« Ron Paul Realism: Question 5 of 7
Aaron Russo Has Passed »

Video: The iPhone Hacker Speaks

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Technology, Video

You know the iPhone was supposed to only work on AT&T’s network, right?

Well…that just changed today.

Video courtesy of TheNewsRoom.


This entry was posted on Friday, August 24th, 2007 and is filed under Technology, Video. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Video: The iPhone Hacker Speaks”

  1. Jeremy Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 10:49 pm

    Now why would anyone want to use a different carrier other than AT&T? After all, you shouldn’t mind if you’ve got nothing to hide, right?

    I just love AT&T’s slogan: “Your World Delivered.” Your world delivered alright! straight to the NSA. AT&T, Amerika’s most dependable phone company. We make sure your messages get to our, uh! we mean your destination. ;)

  2. Justin Gardner Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

    I just love AT&T’s slogan: “Your World Delivered.” Your world delivered alright! straight to the NSA.

    Heh, indeed…

  3. Jeremy Says:
    August 25th, 2007 at 11:26 pm

    We knew this was coming:
    http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/not-so-fast/att-cracks-on-commercial-iphone-unlocking-groups-293468.php

    It’s worth noting that AT&T is not the [only] communications company to hand over their customers communications, Verizon and I’m guessing just about every other damn telco you can think of has done so, if not primarily out of fear of being economically retaliated against by the Bush administration.

    Never the less, AT&T is a behemoth and they seem to have made out quite nicely thank you very much! getting the green light to merge with the Southern Baby Bell, essentially reunifying the old AT&T of yester year. The FCC signed off on the deal, something that just 10 years ago wouldn’t have
    had a prayer in happening. Just goes to show you that the mighty green dollar is worth more than the rights our constitution is supposed to uphold and protect. Nothing is off limits with this administration.

  4. James Says:
    August 27th, 2007 at 10:56 am

    Apple is VERY good @ blocking hacks through firmware upgrades.

    Sure you can always hack it again with a little more hard work but honestly, there’s not a lot to gain by moving an iPhone off of the AT&T network as it has features that are tied DIRECTLY to AT&T.

    So you’ll be taking a $500 phone, and losing functionality, and possibly losing the ability to even USE it on your newly acquired network as Apple will patch it. If you chose NOT to upgrade, you lose out on upgrades and even more changes in the future.

    Good proof of concept but it has ZERO real world use in reality.

Leave a Reply


NOTE TO COMMENTERS:


You must ALWAYS fill in the two word CAPTCHA below to submit a comment. And if this is your first time commenting on Donklephant, it will be held in a moderation queue for approval. Please don't resubmit the same comment a couple times. We'll get around to moderating it soon enough.


Also, sometimes even if you've commented before, it may still get placed in a moderation queue and/or sent to the spam folder. If it's just in moderation queue, it'll be published, but it may be deleted if it lands in the spam folder. My apologies if this happens but there are some keywords that push it into the spam folder.


One last note, we will not tolerate comments that disparage people based on age, sex, handicap, race, color, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry. We reserve the right to delete these comments and ban the people who make them from ever commenting here again.


Thanks for understanding and have a pleasurable commenting experience.


Related Posts: