While hackers have cracked the iPhone in the past and managed to unlock it, their methods involved breaking open the device and were far beyond the capabilities of all but the most tech-savvy iPhone customers. Now, though, the iPhone can be unlocked solely by software.
Hackers working together in the Web-based iPhone Dev Wiki community learned from iPhoneSimFree.com that the iPhone's baseband chip could be accessed, according to Engadget, which ultimately led to a couple of different solutions for unlocking the iPhone. The most customer-ready of the bunch is iUnlock, which is freely available for download from the iPhone Dev Wiki site.
Source: macnewsworld.com
In addition, the legality of unlocking the iPhone is murky right now. Some experts believe that unlocking an iPhone to make calls on another service provider's network is currently legal for personal use under an exemption in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The circumstances, however, are by no means rock-solid. Sellers of hacking solutions, for example, may not be protected at all.
"In any case, users' rights to reverse engineer, tweak, modify, improve and otherwise 'hack' the devices they've paid for contribute greatly to technological progress and a lively marketplace," Peter Eckersley, a staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation Latest News about Electronic Frontier Foundation, told MacNewsWorld.
Source: macnewsworld.com
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