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Presumably you don't want to call NSA/Apple, tell them what a great hack you did, and then ask them for One Million Dollars.

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Why not? Is it illegal to hack your own iphone on a closed LAN? Do you have to be a startup to negotiate with the NSA? I reckon it would be worth a try.

I'm not pro-surveillance, so I wouldn't, but speaking hypothetically here.

Yes, it may be illegal. Tablets are always illegal to jailbreak. Phones are illegal to jailbreak if it allows unlocking of the phone, and the phone was sold before 2013. It IS legal to jailbreak your phone for the SOLE purpose of accessing copyright information that you have legal rights to.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/jailbreaking-now-...

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