In a legal filing last year with the United States Copyright Office, which is part of the Library of Congress, Apple argued that altered phones infringed on its copyrights because they used modified versions of Apple's operating system.
Given the A.P.'s long and distinguished record — we are not talking about Inspire, the Al Qaeda magazine — its restraint in delaying publication, and the fact that it would be hard to alter phone records, invoking that exception strikes one as close to slander.
Apple was issued a couple of interesting new patents today (spotted by AppleInsider), including one that could make an iPhone aware of changes in a user's situation, and alter phone settings accordingly.
Granted, I was hardly immune from saying nasty, snarky things myself because that's what women seem to do when hurt or feeling insecure, but my life moved on and it has already been ten years since that life altering phone call.
Mr. Ubben bought a $45 million stake in the company in early January 2002; by the end of that month, investigators interested in learning more about the timing of her ImClone trade had contacted Ms. Stewart's lawyers and she had altered a phone message from her broker in her assistant's computer, according to testimony at her trial.
At the time that Ms. Stewart, according to Ms. Armstrong, altered the phone message, she was already under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the United States attorney's office, which were separately looking into ImClone trades made just ahead of a critical company announcement that sent the share price plummeting.
The founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia had never altered a phone message before, Ann Armstrong, her assistant testified.
Feb. 10, 2004: Ann Armstrong Ann Armstrong, Stewart's assistant, testifies that Stewart altered a phone log for Dec. 27, 2001, containing a message from Bacanovic and then ordered Armstrong to change it back.
What explanation could she give for altering the phone log at Ann Armstrong's desk?
"Have you ever observed her alter a phone message like that before?" a prosecutor, Michael Schachter, asked Ms. Armstrong.
You can also use tamper-proof tape or even pearlescent nail polish to create a seal over the SIM card slot and the screws holding your phone together so that if it is removed or altered after your phone is seized, you can tell your phone was tampered with.
