New Hack Allows you to Re-Lock Your IPhone

Forget unlocking your iPhone. With Apple announcing today a forthcoming update that will supposedly break all software unlocks as well as plans to void the warranties on previously hacked or unlocked iPhones, a new option to re-lock your phone has just emerged on MacNN.

The process, as outlined by one MacNN reader, promises to restore your iPhone to its natural unsullied state -- thus rendering it impervious to Apple's forthcoming firmware update. But don't get too excited. This hack is by no means for the faint of heart. Nor is it a guarantee your iPhone will survive the update. Even the author reminds users that his instructions "are still in flux."

It is believed the above procedure will relock your iPhone and prevent it from being made permanently unusable by the upcoming firmware update. There is no gaurantee [sic], however, and I take no responsibility for your iPhone if the above procedures do not work for you and your iPhone gets hosed.

There you have it. So for all you unlockers out there, it sounds like waiting for this relocking business to get smoothed out is probably your best bet...that, and avoiding iTunes like the plague this week.

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Apple can’t stop iPhone hacking

I always find it funny when people think a company can do anything it wants with a device it sells. Sure, it may be able to wield significant control and sometimes it even owns your device through an implied contract endorsed when you open the packaging, but it still doesn’t stop people from doing what they want with the products they spend money on.

More often than not, you’ll find that a product that stinks won’t be hacked at all because, well, it stinks. But for a product like the iPhone, it will be hacked — a lot. And if Apple actually thinks it can stop hacking the device, I’ve got some news for them — you can do whatever you want and pull out all the stops, but with millions of people looking to hack just one device, they’ll always find a workaround.

I’ve always found it amazing that companies, after doing business for such a long time, still don’t understand that if the consumer wants to get something out the device, she will probably be able to do it. Regardless of the locks a company puts on a device, workarounds will always be readily available for someone looking for it.

Apple doesn’t have a chance of stopping people from hacking iPhones. With so many in the wild and people already enjoying hacks on their own, how can the company just walk in and tell them to stop, or else? It can’t and it shouldn’t — or else.

Don Reisinger is a freelance technology journalist who covers everything from HDTVs to the iPhone. He writes The Digital Home for CNET, product reviews for InformationWeek and PC World, and contributes to over 15 publications throughout the world.

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