Monday, May 4, 2009  Apple needs to play cat and mouse with
pirates, not jailbreakers  Apple spends considerable engineering
resources attempting to defeat jailbreakers, but historically,
we have always been able to defeat anything they throw at us. In
trying to defeat jailbreakers, Apple is fighting against a body
of skilled volunteers who feel morally, ethically and legally
justifiable in defeating such efforts, and would go so far as to
feel a moral and ethical obligation to continue to do so. It's
not only fun to try to work around such puzzles, but basic
ethical common sense tells us that it is only right to be able
to do whatever we want to devices we purchased as long as we're
not hurting anyone else.  None of the people who work to defeat
Apple's jailbreaking protections believe that pirating App Store
applications is EVER justified. Nor do they believe that Apple
should have a support burden for modified devices.  Yet Apple
and many developers continue to equate jailbreaking with piracy,
which is bot