Re: iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity

In article
<1187983912.331822.185610@l22g2000prc.googlegroups .com>,
AirRaid <AirRaid1500@gmail.com> wrote:

> iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, August 24, 2007,
> 12:00PM EDT
>
> Posted Aug 24th 2007 12:00PM by Ryan Block
>
> It's high noon, Apple and AT&T -- we really hate to break it to you,
> but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right
> in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone
> with a small piece of software. It's all over, guys.

You won't hear me complain. As you know I love hacking and white
hat cracking. Dig on the security vulnerabilities, break the
firewalls, etc. Just don't be an assh*le about it. Do it for the
benefit of the product and its users. Whether that is the case
here is uncertain, but we'll see.

Meanwhile, I seriously doubt that:

A) Anyone is going to pay anything for this crack.

B) Anyone with the crack is going to be able to use the iPhone
with another service. It could be interesting to see how this
point plays out, whether the OTHER phone company could be fooled
by the faked SIM chip.

C) There will be much benefit in using some other phone company
over AT&T. I think they all have pretty much figured out how to
nickel and dime us all to death via one tricky feature or another.

:-Derek

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"Derek Currie" <derekcurrie@mac.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:derekcurrie-939B52.18252024082007@johnf2.biosci.ohio-state.edu...
> In article
> <1187983912.331822.185610@l22g2000prc.googlegroups .com>,
> AirRaid <AirRaid1500@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, August 24, 2007,
>> 12:00PM EDT
>>
>> Posted Aug 24th 2007 12:00PM by Ryan Block
>>
>> It's high noon, Apple and AT&T -- we really hate to break it to you,
>> but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right
>> in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone
>> with a small piece of software. It's all over, guys.
>
> You won't hear me complain. As you know I love hacking and white
> hat cracking. Dig on the security vulnerabilities, break the
> firewalls, etc. Just don't be an assh*le about it. Do it for the
> benefit of the product and its users. Whether that is the case
> here is uncertain, but we'll see.
>
> Meanwhile, I seriously doubt that:
>
> A) Anyone is going to pay anything for this crack.

unlock codes for other phones get sold all the time for $20-$30.

> B) Anyone with the crack is going to be able to use the iPhone
> with another service. It could be interesting to see how this
> point plays out, whether the OTHER phone company could be fooled
> by the faked SIM chip.

you don't 'fake' a sim chip w/ a unlocked phone. you use a real sim chip
from the other service you want to use.

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