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So, you’ve heard about jailbreaking, and it sounds intriguing. And dangerous. (But mostly just intriguing.) Here’s how to hack your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad — yes, iPad — into an unrestricted, freshly empowered mega-machine.

In buying an iProduct, youre accepting that its fate will be dictated by Apple. They control what kind of apps you install on your device, which of the hardware functions you can exploit to their full potential, and which carrier you can use your iPhone with. Theyve loosened up on at least one of those fronts in the last year or so, expanding the types of apps available in the App Store, but many — screw that, most — of the same restrictions still apply. More >