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Code crack opens the iPhone floodgates - Technology - smh.com.au 09/05/2007 08:39 AM
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Code crack opens the iPhone floodgates
Stephen Hutcheon and Asher Moses
September 4, 2007 - 1:58PM
Australians are thumbing their noses at Apple’s 2008
launch date for the iPhone, importing the device from
the US and hacking it to work on local networks.
The hacks, unveiled just over a month ago and
extensively documented online, break the locks that
were intended to restrict iPhone use to the AT&T
network in the United States.
According to one member of a group of Australians who
have been collaborating on a hack, there are at least 30
or 40 people in Australia who are running the Apple
phones using local SIM cards issued by carriers such as
Telstra and Optus.
“The genie’s definitely out of the bottle,” said the man,
who did not wish to be named. “We’re getting reports of
people using them all over the place.”
Alex Voevodin, general manager of Votech, the exclusive…