   17-year-old f**** AT&T?
cbs storya 17-year-old claimed on fox news today that he spent 8-10 hours a day hacking the iPhone to give it the ability to be used on other phone services... including over-seas providers... which could mean more iPhone sales, but it is no longer AT&T exclusive.he spent a said 500 hours working on this.bad news for AT&T but good for Apple?   
  Dunno who it's good or bad for, but Engadget has confirmed that this is the real deal. Not only that, it's about to get bigger.   ;  From the kid's blog:Quote:We definitely need to buy jpetrie a new iPhone. He donated the original phone that made all this possible. I'll even unlock the new phone for him. Jpetrie???   ;  What an awesome guy =D   ;Quote:Original post by Chris Reynoldsbad news for AT&T but good for Apple?Not so sure. It's an exclusivity deal, means that Apple gets lots of money from AT&T for it. These payments will certainly stop now, and Apple could even face damage compensation payments to AT&T.Even if what he did might not be illegal under the DMCA, I'd be very worried if I were that kid. Angering two multinational companies with their bíllion Dollar law departements is walking on very thin ice... He essentially destroyed both AT&T and Apples business plan for the iPhone. They won't let that go without hitting back.;Quote:Original post by Yann LQuote:Original post by Chris Reynoldsbad news for AT&T but good for Apple?Not so sure. It's an exclusivity deal, means that Apple gets lots of money from AT&T for it. These payments will certainly stop now, and Apple could even face damage compensation payments to AT&T.Even if what he did might not be illegal under the DMCA, I'd be very worried if I were that kid. Angering two multinational companies with their bíllion Dollar law departements is walking on very thin ice... He essentially destroyed both AT&T and Apples business plan for the iPhone. They won't let that go without hitting back.Being a minor could help him out. And suing a 17 year old for something like this isn't good publicity.   ;Quote:Original post by mtwQuote:Original post by Yann LQuote:Original post by Chris Reynoldsbad news for AT&T but good for Apple?Not so sure. It's an exclusivity deal, means that Apple gets lots of money from AT&T for it. These payments will certainly stop now, and Apple could even face damage compensation payments to AT&T.Even if what he did might not be illegal under the DMCA, I'd be very worried if I were that kid. Angering two multinational companies with their bíllion Dollar law departements is walking on very thin ice... He essentially destroyed both AT&T and Apples business plan for the iPhone. They won't let that go without hitting back.Being a minor could help him out. And suing a 17 year old for something like this isn't good publicity.As far as that goes, I'm just curious what role this will play in him getting hired in a technical field (which is probably where he wants to be if he's already spending nearly two month's worth of 8-10 hour days doing this sort of thing).;Quote:Original post by Way WalkerQuote:Original post by mtwQuote:Original post by Yann LQuote:Original post by Chris Reynoldsbad news for AT&T but good for Apple?Not so sure. It's an exclusivity deal, means that Apple gets lots of money from AT&T for it. These payments will certainly stop now, and Apple could even face damage compensation payments to AT&T.Even if what he did might not be illegal under the DMCA, I'd be very worried if I were that kid. Angering two multinational companies with their bíllion Dollar law departements is walking on very thin ice... He essentially destroyed both AT&T and Apples business plan for the iPhone. They won't let that go without hitting back.Being a minor could help him out. And suing a 17 year old for something like this isn't good publicity.As far as that goes, I'm just curious what role this will play in him getting hired in a technical field (which is probably where he wants to be if he's already spending nearly two month's worth of 8-10 hour days doing this sort of thing).It will either be good for him or have no effect.;  Jon Lech Johansen was just 16 when he cracked the DVD encryption and wrote DeCSS. That was a very interesting fight, and to my knowledge it's the landmark for all of these sorts of things.In any case, I think this is being blown out of proportion. The hacks were inevitable, and this kid isn't the only one. He just beat everyone else by a couple days.   ;Quote:Original post by kevtimcFrom the kid's blog:Quote:We definitely need to buy jpetrie a new iPhone. He donated the original phone that made all this possible. I'll even unlock the new phone for him. Jpetrie???him?   