Senator Crafting Bill to Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal - Polidicks

[QUOTE]One day after the White House called on Congress to make cell phone unlocking legal, a Minnesota senator today announced plans for legislation that would allow the practice. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, said she will introduce a bill this week that would allow for cell phone unlocking. "Consumers should be free to choose the phone and service that best fits their needs and their budgets," Klobuchar said in a statement. "I will continue to work to advance commonsense measures to protect consumers and promote competition."[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416246,00.asp"]Link to Source[/URL]

cell unlocking is illegal in the states? poor cavemen

I think Amy Klobuchar is a total oppurtunist but do you know what? Fuck it. YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

[QUOTE=Zambies!;39812874]I think Amy Klobuchar is a total oppurtunist but do you know what? Fuck it. YESSSSSSSSSSSSS[/QUOTE] the end apparently justifies the intent.

[quote]I will continue to work to advance commonsense measures to protect consumers and promote competition.[/quote] [quote]commonsense measures[/quote] Best senator

[QUOTE=Unimaginative;39812870]cell unlocking is illegal in the states? poor cavemen[/QUOTE] I gave an in-depth lecture to a security guy on how I'd unlocked my phone, what it entailed, how it could possibly benefit a thief, how cell phones received signals, what rooting a phone entails, what unlocking a phone is, how it differs from getting past the lockscreen, how to boot into recovery, what a person could do from that phone state, how that would benefit a thief, what I'd done to my phone... I had no idea it was illegal and neither did he, apparently.

An actual good idea? This will go nowhere. Telecoms contribute to campaigns almost as much as oil and gas.

Yeah the lobbying in the U.S. is to the point that you might as well kiss this goodbye. If you want to know Google actively lobbyed the government to do something good, while another company bribed them to do something bad. So that means it doesn't matter as long as the senators and such get their money who ever bribes them the most of course is going to win.

[QUOTE=mrhippieguy;39813960]I gave an in-depth lecture to a security guy on how I'd unlocked my phone, what it entailed, how it could possibly benefit a thief, how cell phones received signals, what rooting a phone entails, what unlocking a phone is, how it differs from getting past the lockscreen, how to boot into recovery, what a person could do from that phone state, how that would benefit a thief, what I'd done to my phone... I had no idea it was illegal and neither did he, apparently.[/QUOTE] I'm going to have to turn you in

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;39814488]An actual good idea? This will go nowhere. Telecoms contribute to campaigns almost as much as oil and gas.[/QUOTE] How much do they contribute?

[QUOTE=King Tiger;39816428]How much do they contribute?[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i[/url] [url]http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s[/url] Verizon actually outspent Lockheed Martin on lobbying, with AT&T not far behind.

Someday lobbying will be illegal. Someday...

[QUOTE=Unimaginative;39812870]cell unlocking is illegal in the states? poor cavemen[/QUOTE] As of Jan 26th, 2013. Yes.

[QUOTE=OrionChronicles;39816586]Someday lobbying will be illegal. Someday...[/QUOTE] lobbyists will just lobby to have it legalized again.

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;39816482][url]http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i[/url] [url]http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s[/url] Verizon actually outspent Lockheed Martin on lobbying, with AT&T not far behind.[/QUOTE] That's ridiculous. This needs to end.

foriegn lobbyists are especially bullshit

[QUOTE=mrhippieguy;39813960]I gave an in-depth lecture to a security guy on how I'd unlocked my phone, what it entailed, how it could possibly benefit a thief, how cell phones received signals, what rooting a phone entails, what unlocking a phone is, how it differs from getting past the lockscreen, how to boot into recovery, what a person could do from that phone state, how that would benefit a thief, what I'd done to my phone... I had no idea it was illegal and neither did he, apparently.[/QUOTE] It only recently became illegal again. A few months ago it was A-ok.

Cell phone unlocking is nice, but jailbreaking would be even nicer, why don't you guys get on that. Our government (Australia) does pretty much whatever the US says, so if you allowed it it'd trickle down to us eventually.

[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;39817820]Cell phone unlocking is nice, but jailbreaking would be even nicer, why don't you guys get on that. Our government (Australia) does pretty much whatever the US says, so if you allowed it it'd trickle down to us eventually.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure jailbreaking is legal [B]Edit: [/B]Just found out that it's illegal in some place, what the fuck, you bought the device you should be able to do what you please with it

Now the question is, will this bill simply make it legal for you to unlock your phone, or will it require carriers to unlock them after your contract is up? If its the former it's still going to be rather difficult (since iPhones have to be jailbroken to unlock and you have to stitch different IPSWs together because the more recent basebands don't have unlocks yet.) Also I don't have any personal experience with Android, but don't you need to be rooted in order to unlock them?

[QUOTE=Forumaster;39819588]Now the question is, will this bill simply make it legal for you to unlock your phone, or will it require carriers to unlock them after your contract is up? If its the former it's still going to be rather difficult (since iPhones have to be jailbroken to unlock and you have to stitch different IPSWs together because the more recent basebands don't have unlocks yet.) Also I don't have any personal experience with Android, but don't you need to be rooted in order to unlock them?[/QUOTE] As far as I can tell, no. You just need the unlocking code from your carrier and the phone will prompt for it if you insert a different SIM.