Apple Kills Hotwired iPhones

Did you hack your iPhone so that you could use it on a non-AT&T carrier?  Yeah, well…it probably stopped working yesterday, didn’t it? 

Apple released an update for the iPhone yesterday that apparently included the company’s response to those users who decided to hack, basically making those hacked iPhones little more than a paper weight.  Those phones now receive an error message telling them they need an authentic SIM (Subscriber Identity Module). 

Now, in fairness to Apple, they warned users a week or so ago that this would happen, but most hacked iPhone fans thought it was just a bullying scare tactic.  Umm…not so much.  Moral of the story?  Don’t mess with Apple, they’re not kidding around.