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jimmyboy
22-09-2002, 12:44 PM
or you could just read this...
Mobile Telephones (Re-programming) Act 2002
2002 Chapter 31
An Act to create offences in respect of unique electronic equipment
identifiers of mobile wireless communications devices.
[24th July 2002]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice
and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as
follows:-
1
Re-programming mobile telephone etc.
(1) A person commits an offence if-
(a) he changes a unique device identifier, or
(B) he interferes with the operation of a unique device identifier.
(2) A unique device identifier is an electronic equipment identifier which
is unique to a mobile wireless communications device.
(3) But a person does not commit an offence under this section if-
(a) he is the manufacturer of the device, or
(B) he does the act mentioned in subsection (1) with the written
consent of the manufacturer of the device.
(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable-
(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6
months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both, or
(B) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 5 years or to a fine or to both.
2
Possession or supply of anything for re-programming purposes
(1) A person commits an offence if-
(a) he has in his custody or under his control anything which may be
used for the purpose of changing or interfering with the operation of a
unique device identifier, and
(B) he intends to use the thing unlawfully for that purpose or to
allow it to be used unlawfully for that purpose.
(2) A person commits an offence if-
(a) he supplies anything which may be used for the purpose of changing

Telephone act coming in later this year,been posted on another forums,so get doing it quickly,and either way,just DONT get caught!

james

Dj_rudeness
22-09-2002, 10:39 PM
tuxedoh, eeprom tools changes it and it takes about 20 seconds

[Edited on 22-9-2002 by Dj_rudeness]

[Edited on 22-9-2002 by Dj_rudeness]