Fantastic news today from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). After a
lot of hard work and mountains of paperwork, jailbreaking your iPhone is
now explicitly a permitted fair use under the DMCA!
The first of EFF’s three successful requests clarifies the legality of
cell phone “jailbreaking” — software modifications that liberate iPhones
and other handsets to run applications from sources other than those
approved by the phone maker. More than a million iPhone owners are said to
have “
