{"id":926,"date":"2013-01-26T07:40:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T15:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=926"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:25:10","slug":"unlocking-phones-just-became-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking phones just became illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p>Last October, it was determined that effective on\u00a0January 26th, 2013,\u00a0unlocking a mobile phone (different from &#8220;jailbreaking&#8221; which means opening a smartphone and\u00a0running additional software) is no longer allowed under the strict anti-hacking law Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA.)\u00a0 Unlocking a phone essentially removes the restrictions of the smartphone only working on one carrier&#8217;s network.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=infosecpro0c-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=1449316484&MsrketPlace=US\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p>This is not a problem if you&#8217;ve asked your carrier first.\u00a0 Nor is it an issue if you buy a phone outright full-price (without a contract) and receive it unlocked at the time of purchase (such as the Verizon iPhone 5.)\u00a0 Nor is it a problem for AT&amp;T users that have AT&amp;T unlock it once it is out of contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What this boils down to is that only a consumer, who is ALSO THE OWNER OF THE COPY OF SOFTWARE on the handset, may lawfully unlock the handset.\u00a0 This could be bad news for T-Mobile who advocates customers bring their own device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63,67,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-practices","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8049,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/8049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}