WASHINGTON: Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally unlock their devices so they can run software applications that haven’t been approved by Apple Inc, according to new US Government rules.
The decision to allow the practice commonly known as “jailbreaking” is one of a handful of new exemptions from a 1998 federal law that prohibits people from bypassing technical measures that companies put on their products to prevent unauthorised uses.
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