Just yesterday, I heard from a reader who had a clever idea: what if you *gave* your unmodified iPhone to a hacker who knew how to install a third-party app store on it, and they modified that phone, and then sold it back to you for $10? The hacker would be making a *use exemption*, not a *tools exemption*.
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Cory Doctorow
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