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whooo, take a look at this picture.

Wozniak and Steve Jobs, back in 1975, with the BlueBox device, a phreaking tool used to obtain free calls from ATT framework. Jobs solded those devices to his friends in Berkeley.

Kinda interesting to see now (thanks Woz who uploaded the picture in his blog at woz.org) that Apple is locking his iphone to use only the ATT network; indeed (according to Gizmodo, seems) Apple is also trying to make more difficult and dangerous to unlock the iphone, denying technical assistance (and blacklisting them) to unlocked iphones.

UPDATE: Apple is not only denying assistance to unlocked iphones... they say that the next firmware update (coming in this week) will brick the evil iphones! The Apple statement:

Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone's software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed. Apple plans to release the next iPhone software update, containing many new features including the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store (www.itunes.com), later this week. Apple strongly discourages users from installing unauthorized unlocking programs on their iPhones. Users who make unauthorized modifications to the software on their iPhone violate their iPhone software license agreement and void their warranty. The permanent inability to use an iPhone due to installing unlocking software is not covered under the iPhone's warranty.

UPDATE2: DVD John explains some details about the evil Apple and the _will_ to brick the unlocked iphones. Isn't in any way necessary: firmware is not magic: as the hackers can replace the original firmware with a different one without SIM verification, Apple could restore the original firmware with his update.