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Originally Posted by christexaport View Post
Some people paid $650 to use the N900 as a toy and testbed for hacking, etc. It is OUR device to use as we wish.
That's exactly the problem. We have users and bloggers out there targetting the people that just want to use the N900 as their daily use main phone encouraging them to go ahead and use potentially dangerous, risky options to get more apps when it's far from required. They don't know or understand the risks nor are these users/bloggers telling them what the risks are.

All the actual information, including the risks and the methods for doing so anyways are all already here for anyone to find (even if the search here on Talk isn't the best).

It's not about creating a special group of people that hold "the knowledge". It's about making sure that someone that has never had a Maemo device doesn't immediately try something that can harm his device until he at least understands what's going on and the risks he's signing up for. Again, all the info is already shared anyways, so it's not like there's anything actually hidden here, just massively discouraged.
 

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