{"id":7854,"date":"2009-03-28T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T09:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/jailbreaking_iphones_more_legal.html"},"modified":"2009-03-28T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T09:30:29","slug":"jailbreaking-iphones-more-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/jailbreaking-iphones-more-legal.html","title":{"rendered":"Jailbreaking iPhones More Legal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Apple applied for a patent which allows iPhones to integrate with biometrics allowing more precise authentication of the users of the fine touch-screen device. An eagle eyed reader of the patent noticed however that the iPhone used in the patent application had been <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/tag\/jailbreak\">jailbroken<\/a>. What&#8217;s that? Apple jailbroke an iPhone and used it to help with their patent filing?<\/p>\n<p>So the obvious question is how can Apple tell its customers to do something they obviously can&#8217;t help doing themselves? Moreover, will this new information help the Electronic Frontier Foundation in its ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/apple\/apple-jailbreaking-twitter-and-toshiba-news.html\">struggle<\/a> to make iPhone jailbreaking an exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright act?<\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/03\/28\/apple-uses-a-jailbroken-iphone-in-patent-application\/\">engadget<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Apple applied for a patent which allows iPhones to integrate with biometrics allowing more precise authentication of the users of the fine touch-screen device. An eagle eyed reader of the patent noticed however that the iPhone used in the patent application had been jailbroken. What&#8217;s that? Apple jailbroke an iPhone and used it to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,168,172,196,199,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}