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File This Under: If You're Dumb or Ignorant Enough to buy a Mac, you get what you have coming to you


One true technology cult, Apple, has come up with a wizard way of dealing with sinners who jail-break its products.

After a US court decided that it was perfectly reasonable for people to be allowed to do what they like with a product they own, Jobs' Mob's legal team seemed to have been burning the mid-night oil to come up with a method of protecting Apple's walled garden of delights.

What it has done is applied for a patent covering various methods for identifying and disabling unauthorised use including jailbreaking and other hacks.

The patent , which was filed in February and published last week, primarily focuses on measures for identifying stolen devices and protecting the kinds of sensitive information, such as credit card numbers and passwords, stored on those devices.

 

Read More @ Tech Eye

 

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