iPhone 'Jailbreaking' Legal Under New Government Rules
WASHINGTON — Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally unlock their
devices so they can run software applications that haven't been approved by
Apple Inc., according to new government rules announced Monday.
The decision to allow the practice commonly known as "jailbreaking" is one
of a handful of new exemptions from a 1998 federal law that prohibits people
from bypassing technical measures that companies put on their products to
prevent
