As hackers get more sophisticated, the time it takes them to unlock devices such as the iPhone becomes shorter and shorter. Much as with DRM on CDs and DVDs, the question must be asked: are companies like AT&T and Apple simply hurting honest consumers in their quest to hang onto a monopoly?Only 4 days after launch, the iPhone 3G has been unlocked using a special card that piggybacks to your SIM card. This fools the phone into thinking it's using an official carrier.
Of course, the fact that the iPhone 2.0 software was jailbroken so quickly pretty much indicated hacks wouldn't be too long in coming.
According to the one of the Brazilian hackers, Breno MacMasi:
Our procedure consist in using one SIM adapter to simulate a fake IMSI test card. Instead of the AT&T IMSI like in the universals.If you happen to be able to speak Portuquese, you can enjoy this video of the hack demonstrated:
4 comments:
Well you have to expect that the most popular power phone at this time will get hacked. Just like everything else these days, you can't hide from determined hardware and software crackers.
Excellent....
We should all text his phones at +55 888 182 40 and +55 811 114 32 and congratulate him. ;-)
Adam, you're right about that. And that's my point. Companies like Apple (and let's not forget Sony's DRM debacle) put all these "safeguards" into place, which cause further fiascoes like the hours long activation process for the 3G model - and yet it's cracked this easily.
Who are they really harming? Not the hackers, it seems, but John Q. Public.
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