A quick point of clarification: rooting/jailbreaking your phone is indeed legal thanks to a DMCA exemption that was recently won. Unlocking your phone is a different matter. This blog post lays it out: https://www.eff.org/is-it-illegal-to-unlock-a-phone
Cheers, Dan On 02/20/2013 03:30 PM, Cooper Quintin wrote: > Forward from the guardian project listserve: > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Oh wait, it already is! Thanks to new DMCA regulations. > > If we get 100,000 petitions on the White House petition site, Obama has > to make a statement about this issue. The good news is that *there are > already 88,457 signatures*! The bad news is that *there are only a few > days left *to reach the goal. > > YOU can take a stand against making rooting phones a crime. Register and > sign the petition here - http://wh.gov/yA9n. I mean, you want to be > more like *Vint Cerf* and *JP Barlow*, right? Well they're on board > <http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/mobile-unlocking-petition/>. > For more details, check out this article in the Atlantic > <http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-most-ridiculous-law-of-2013-so-far-it-is-now-a-crime-to-unlock-your-smartphone/272552/> > > At Guardian Project we seek to ensure that everyone is as secure and > private as they want to be when using their phones. Attempts at > installing cops in our phones are a disservice to human rights the world > over. Thanks for listening and doing your part. > > In solidarity,- > > Mark > > P.S. You're at the bottom and haven't signed yet? Click here to get to > 100,000 <http://wh.gov/yA9n>! > > > --_ > @mbelinsky <https://twitter.com/mbelinsky>| guardianproject.info > <https://guardianproject.info/>| phone: +1-347-466-9327| ostel: 1003 __| > pgp: 0xEFBFA7278D8EFFDA > <http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xEFBFA7278D8EFFDA>_ > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Dan Auerbach Staff Technologist Electronic Frontier Foundation [email protected] 415 436 9333 x134
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