Jailbreaking smartphones is now legal.

[Star Fox Runner]

I was looking around on the Yahoo newsfeeds and I found something interesting. The US government has stated that jailbreaking a smartphone (particularly the iPhone) is no longer illegal.

Jailbreaking is making a phone capable of running non-standard apps and even run on different networks.

What do you guys think of this? You think it's good or bad this happened?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc3236

[CrypticQuery]

FINALLY! :D

[Fluxy]

Lol. Now, I am not good on this stuff, but I was told for an iPhone, that it wasn't illegal, but highly looked down upon. But I thought it was illegal. What is the deal on that?

(OT: I too agree with Crazy! lol)

[Guest DRL]

The trouble with changing the Network

is that it enocourages piracy/phone theft.

Never-the-less, another solution to limit

phone robberies must be found. Say, like,

there is a hard-coded unit inside the phone

that renders the phone unusable if not active,

and if active, only an authentication can make it

work. The authentication can be turned on/off by

the phone's owner, on a goverment place or like

that.

I am not sure if I explained it very well, but it goes

like that.

Apart from that, non-official applications are a good

thing. I had myself 50% of stuff 'unofficially updated'

on my Motorola. :lol:

[Mr. Krystal]

I worry about network hacking. As far as I know, phone systems are not sandboxed.