Johan Lieu, maker of products

Is the iPhone causing Apple to lose the plot?

LOL. Is Apple REALLY using old neo-con GOP rhetoric now? We’re doing it to PROTECT AMER-I-CA!

“Apple wants to make jailbreaking illegal because it supposedly threatens our nation’s cellphone tower infrastructure, and thereby threatens our national security.”

“Taking control of the BBP [baseband processor, which regulates connections between the phone and tower] software would be much the equivalent of getting inside the firewall of a corporate computer — to potentially catastrophic result. The technological protection measures were designed into the iPhone precisely to prevent these kinds of pernicious activities, and if granted, the jailbreaking exemption would open the door to them.”