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The next time someone tells you "no one" would do something...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Dec 1 14:42:05 2008
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:41:31 -0500
Summary: shops in Vietnam removing the baseband chip on iPhone
motherboards to reprogram and unlock them.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10107580-1.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave
The next time someone tells you "no one" would do such a thing to
break the security of a device, or at least that it would be unlikely
that anyone would make such a thing routine, remember that with enough
motivation, people will do amazing things.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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