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Teen trades hacked iPhone for new car
Code crack opens the iPhone floodgates
A Concerned parent wrote to me:
"Dear Fr. Jaison,
Living in the modern world on many occasions we get confused reading the stuff like the one below
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap
"We grew up listening to the stories of early Christians loosing their life for sake of their beliefs but now he has traded on the flaws of a company's product to get rich, people like you who tech savvy and religious are ones who should address to this....I have a son aged 1 yr 5 months but i am not sure how i am going to impart the values which i gained to him when I myself don't find enough words to explain that what we just read is wrong even though i know it is wrong. How will i be able to justify... seems people no more think about the cardinal sins."
What's the morality behind this event.
The apple has locked their new phone to a particular service provider. It's a business decision. The goal is very clear - giving the monopoly of it's new phone to someone. If someone wants to use iPhone, they have to choose the 'provider' as well. How morally upright that position is?
A BIG QUESTION?
The sole aim is making more profit - by using intellectual property right.
Now, some kids wants to use their brain to show that they can break that code. They may be called hackers! But what they are doing is also intellectual work. They got a right over their skills too... isn't it. We may have to legalize it, that all.
It's an open ended question. A lot of moral principles may come in play. But I would like to side with the kids... The preferential option for the poor!
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