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Unlocking your smartphone may be illegal now, but you wouldn’t know it. When the iOS 6 jailbreak “evasi0n” was launched earlier this month, the tech community responded by using it to unlock seven million iPads and iPhones, definitive proof that the internet wasn’t kidding when it managed to wrangle up over 100,000 signatures asking President Barack Obama rescind the law. Evasi0n was always going to be successful, but there’s something unique about this success: it’s doubling as protest.

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The last time we talked about the sticky issue of smartphone jailbreaking, the Rocksauce Studios team was split on the issue. Q Manning thought that the recently passed law that makes unlocking your mobile device illegal was a terrible idea, saying “This is absolutely, ridiculously stupid. What I do with the device that I own, that belongs me, shouldn’t matter. If I want to unlock it, jailbreak it or do anything else to it, I should be able to.” Meanwhile, Peter Yoder fell on the other side, countering with “The laws that protect these big companies are the same laws that allow companies like Rocksauce Studios to operate and stay in business.”

But the internet has spoken and you can guess which side of the fence they ended up on. With over 100,000 signatures, the petition to legalize smartphone jailbreaking now requires a response from the White House.

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