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Perspective

Apr. 16, 2009

Will iPhone Network Hacking Shake Apple to Its Core?

Apple should look outside of IP rights enforcement to protect the iPhone, cautions Marc Roark.

INSIGHT COLUMN

By Marc L. Roark

Apple Inc. has a problem and it knows it. The iPhone's popularity, together with the ever-growing capacity of the ordinary consumer to access highly technical devices, has made the iPhone not only the most popular cell phone on the market, but also, perhaps, the most abused. Savvy consumers easily can hack ("jailbreak" in hacker parlance) an iPhone, freeing it from AT&T, the designated network that Apple intended those phone...

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