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Originally Posted by damion View Post
I Locking against IMEI will just be overridden with LD_PRELOAD=fake_imei.so ./game
The store purchase for the 90ish% of non-technical people who don't forums or know the cmdline and just want to pay for great software, should be adequate to make money from honesty and the vague security by obscurity.

The fact it was removed worries me that they didn't know! I'd hate to not have any commercial apps after this untl they tie some amazingly complex kernal blob which locks you with imei and a non LD overridable system call (or something like that).

On a different note charging $3 to americans but almost double that to brits (£3) is completely evil behaviour.
Ah, but your less likely to want to give away your IMEI. Namely because people can do bad things with IMEI, and in Europe, if somebody says that IMEI is stolen then the police along with telephone operators can track it down and get it back.

So who knows, give away your IMEI, somebody reports the N900 is stolen and you lose your N900 to whoever was smart enough to try it if the police decide to confiscate it from you. =P (Granted it may not work but you never know). Especially with the way the UK is heading.
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
 

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