http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx/tidbits-talk
It appears that there's a hack application - INdependence - that
activates an iPhone without requiring you to sign up for a two-year
contract or a prepaid plan. In other words, it lets you use an iPhone
for everything an iPhone can do that's unrelated to cellular access.

<http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/INdependence>

But here's the question - is doing such a thing ethical, given that
Apple and AT&T have priced the iPhone and its plans with the
assumption that everyone will activate using them? Obviously, at the
individual level there's no significant harm to either company, but
if such an approach were to become commonplace, both companies would
suffer for real, and unreasonably so.

Is hacktivating an iPhone ethical?

cheers... -Adam

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Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Publisher <http://www.tidbits.com/adam/>
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