Hasta La Gadget!

Grand hyperbole or real threat? Either way, Apple’ latest anti-jailbreaking claims are downright poetic. The company last week filed claims with the Copyright Office, suggesting that jailbreaking one’s iPhone could be “potentially catastrophic” to cellphone networks.

The claim, which was brought to light by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, suggested that “Jailbreaking could allow hackers to altering the iPhone’s BBP–the “baseband processor” software, which enables a connection to cell phone towers,” according to Wired.

Using the jailbroken handset, Apple claims, a hacker could launch denial of service attacks, crashing cell tower software. The company added: “Taking control of the BBP software would be much the equivalent of getting inside the firewall of a corporate computer–to potentially catastrophic result.”