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What Happened?! 

Vetoed by the Govinator!  Who cares?  Everyone wants to report how this is such a horrible travesty.   Major media is missing an important aspect of AB 779.  The data protection sphere is self-regulating at the moment.  Credit card companies have the PCI DSS standard to follow, most of which covers a huge portion of AB 779.  Honestly, let’s pull our heads out of the sand.

It’s All Politics 

To me it appears that the media is making this a POLITICAL issue.  Sure, we can wrap it up into a pretty little identify-theft prevention bundle, but it’s a political message to attempt to make an election issue and the negative effects of a conservative Republican Governor in a largely liberal state.

The 1.1.1 update for the iPhone turns all hacked iPhones into an iBrick or iPaperWeight.  Sucky, eh?  Well, too bad.  Sure, it’s cool and hip to unlock your iPhone, not that anyone but you truly cares that you did.

Do I think that Apple should have gone with AT&T (Your world.  Delivered–To The NSA)?  Probably not the best choice to use an EDGE cellular network, but that’s their mistake.  The iPhone has generated huge amounts of income for Apple and AT&T.  Would it have generated more income if they had used a more open (or multiple) cell network?  Definitely.

If your iPhone is bricked you can find instructions on how to roll back to 1.0.2 on the Internet.  I’m not going to post them or a link here since I don’t want to  receive some sort of Gestapo take-down order.