At the same time that the government is starting to look into anti-consumer activity at mobile service providers, Apple comes out with this little gem:
By tinkering with this code, “a local or international hacker could potentially initiate commands (such as a denial of service attack) that could crash the tower software, rendering the tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data,” Apple wrote the government. “Taking control of the BBP software would be much the equivalent of getting inside the firewall of a corporate computer — to potentially catastrophic result.
Here’s the original Wired article with that text. That was written to the Copyright Office to attempt to counter an Electronic Freedom Foundation request to legalize jailbreaking, or removing application and carrier locks on the phone.
Whenever you want your political way, I guess it’s best to play the fear card. But by that token, Android phones must be a menace, along with all the unlocked WinMo devices. Oh, and ALL of Europe, how’s that work? Do they just have infinitely better security on their cell towers?
You’re being annoying, Apple. Super annoying.
