Mark Allums writes: > If you get root on it, you can use it like any *nix machine. Getting > root is the hard part. I will not assist in this, because it is now > illegal to root tablets in the US that were not already pwned before Jan > 1, 2013.
Richard Owlett writes: > Can you support that broad a statement. The unit I purchased not only > did not have a sim card but explicitly did not have the capability to > have one added later. [i.e. I explicitly do not have any carrier > imposed contractual restrictions. On some devices it is necessary to break the DRM on some of the boot code in order to install unauthorized firmware. Doing so could be a violation of the anti-circumvention part of the DMCA. If you can get root and/or rewrite the firmware without decrypting anything, though, you are legal. You are also legal if there is no DRM or if you have the manufacturer's permission. I also suspect that, were someone to take this to federal court, the DMCA would be ruled not to apply here. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehd9hgap....@thumper.dhh.gt.org
