The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been fighting Apple over the legality of Jailbreaking iPhones. While the Cupertino based company has argued that it violates a customer’s warranty on their iPhone, they’ve gone to the extreme by claiming hackers could modify their iPhone’s Baseband to disrupt cellular service.

”…a local or international hacker could potentially initiate commands (such as a denial of service attack) that could crash the tower software, rendering the tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data.”

“Taking control of the BBP software would be much the equivalent of getting inside the firewall of a corporate computer — to potentially catastrophic result.”

“The technological protection measures were designed into the iPhone precisely to prevent these kinds of pernicious activities, and if granted, the jailbreaking exemption would open the door to them.”

Via: Engadget