Chris Berube

So there's kind of the dodgy, questionable, maybe outside of the bounds of the law way.

And then there's the law abiding citizen.

I want to do everything by the book way.

So where do you want to start with this?

So Cory Doctorow says we're now seeing a lot of black market or kind of gray market efforts to fix this problem.

Right.

We're seeing people hacking software in an iPhone, for example, and making it work with third party applications.

Right.

When you do that with an Apple product, that is called jailbreaking.

But people aren't just doing it with Apple products.

They're doing it with all kinds of tech now.

Lots and lots of these softwares have been broken into it.

It's actually pretty easy for someone who has, you know, hacker skills and experience.

And obviously this kind of solution hacking into the software like it is not something the company wants you to do.

I don't think I need to say that your user agreement usually says I will not do something like this.

But it is becoming more and more common.

And our farmer, Jared, he told me he's actually seen this kind of thing pretty often in his day-to-day life, like being used by repair people.

Yeah, it does sound sketchy.

And Jared, on our call, he made clear to me he has never used this kind of technology because, you know, he wants to follow the rules.

And also, you don't actually know what you're putting on your computer anymore.