Hacking for Private Pleasure?

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No, not that sort of pleasure. We're talking geek pleasure. I respond (hopefully with a voice of reason) to the S60 3rd Edition hackers over at Symbian Freak and to the hyped headlines that have started to appear around the world. And if you've no idea what I'm talking about, just move on, you're not missing much.

"Oh, the blogosphere does like a good scare story, and combining the previously impregnable Symbian OS 9 and S60 3rd Edition in the same sentence as the word 'hacked' is bound to raise a few eyebrows and generate some page hits. After all, 'Windows Mobile hacked' doesn't really have the same ring of surprise.

'Hacked' - visions of web sites falling over, visions of altered versions of legitimate applications, flooding the world with malevolent code and so on..."

Read on.