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RE: Apple patent looks to lock up jailbreakers

lelandhendrix@... 23rd Aug 2010

@afhavemann@... I'm sorry, but you're wrong.

As an owner you have the right to load whatever software you want.

That's not what these patents are about at all.

They are about identifying suspicious behavior at the device, and locking it down so that it can't be jail broken or continue to operate in any way without contacting the owner first.

This is hardening security at the handset, and I want it today.

You see, features like this are opt-in and customizable buy THE OWNER.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have said they were going to contact the owner, it would have contacted someone else.

By the way--if someone steals MY phone and then jailbreak it (usually what happens), I actually DO WANT someone to lock them up.

And to the "author" of this article--SHAME ON YOUR BEHIND FOR LINK BAITING!! Your headline is a lie and you know it. This article ran here LAST WEEK, and was much better formed and didn't try to stir the stupid.