After reading this I've decided, no iphone ever

[Toast]

Jail breaking is legal, however att is trying to make it like the car companies, If you open up your brand new engine you will void your warranty from them.

There's a difference between voiding a warranty and sabotage. Installing a kill switch that would (most likely) brick the phone after the purchase, especially while doing something legal is totally wrong. It's not any different then if a car manufacturer remotely blew up your engine if you were to install any aftermarket parts.

I like Apple products too, I have a Macbook and an iPod touch. I was thinking about getting an iPhone 4 but At&t sucks and I like my Android based phone more. I really don't like the route Apple is taking nowadays...

[thefifthspeed]

As popular as the iPhone is I would bet money that if such a program were to be implemented that somebody would find away around it in a week.

As much as I like open source, expandable memory, and flash I'll still probably get the iPhone 4 in a month or 2. Call me a sheep or whatever makes you feel better but it's a solid, stable product that has an easy to use interface plus I'd like to simply transfer all of my previous stuff over from the 3GS.

[JDay]

As popular as the iPhone is I would bet money that if such a program were to be implemented that somebody would find away around it in a week.

It would be a hardware based solution and just like the PS3 it would take years to come up with a reproducible workaround, if ever.

[thefifthspeed]

It would be a hardware based solution and just like the PS3 it would take years to come up with a reproducible workaround, if ever.

I guess until they actually come out with a prototype to what this article claims I would assume it would be part hardware/part software that makes this facial recognition system work in conjunction with this "kill switch".

It would also be interesting to find some type of statistic to find out what percentage of iphones/ipods are jailbroken. Part of me thinks if apple truley wanted to curb people modding their devices they would have done something by now which makes me beleive this "kill switch" device will never be implemented, but who knows.