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In a tough blow to those who have ‘unlocked’ their iPhone hardware to make it compatible with unofficial carriers, and to those who have ‘cracked’ software to make it work on their shiny new piece of kit, Apple revealed a software upgrade that will make hacked phones ‘permanently inoperable’. Apple released several warnings that this would be the case and they appear to be intending to follow through with their threat, P2P net tells us.

Apple’s new hardware was the subject of techie’s attentions from the start; they hoped to release the phone from the draconian prices charged by Apple’s ‘official’ carrier. They also wanted software that wasn’t currently officially available. After some ingenious but ultimately doomed late night cracking sessions, the iPhone was cracked.

Apple’s portent of doom came to fruition, however, and those cracked iPhones may soon be worthless: users may see their phones freeze up entirely. Whoops. Some users have reportedly had their phones ‘bricked’ — made as useful as a building material — already. There is, naturally, a great drive in the community to rectify this situation for those that have lost out — and no doubt there will be so modicum of success — but will this just mean more fruitless toiling? Are those hacked iPhones ultimately doomed?

pple’s increasingly strict attitude towards ‘unofficial’ use of its products started a few months ago when it started to introduce DRM protection into music sold through its iTunes store; this introduction was, ostensibly, to prevent ‘illegal’ online filesharing.

here will this end? Clearly this is a battle between the techies on both side of the iPhone. Apple have the funding and the inside knowledge, but the users have the numbers and the drive. Could be interesting.

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