Talk:Hacking of consumer electronics

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I am a student working on the Wikimedia U.S. Public Policy Initiative and am focusing on the legality of hacking. My group noticed that there was no clear, unifying source for information on the legality of hacking consumer electronics in general in the United States, so we consulted several online ambassadors who indicated that this article was a good idea to create. This article is not meant to strictly apply to iOS jailbreaking as it applies to Android rooting and the hacking of videogame hardware as well. Despite the fact that these are similar topics, there is a disconnect in U.S. copyright law which now allows jailbreaking of cell phones, but not of video game consoles, so we thought it would be relevant to address this issue with a new article.
 * Accepted. I'll mark it for expansion. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 08:47, 25 October 2010 (UTC)


 * @Seb az86556 153.92.147.56 (talk) 11:09, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Using the word "hacking"
Can we please not use the work "hacking" to describe running unsigned code on consumer electronics? Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a 12 year old's blog. Regardless of what shitty popular websites such as engadget like to use, most software firms that are taken seriously by intellectually capable people use various alternative terms for software "hacking" and hardware "hacking". Even "modding", "homebrewing" and "running unsigned code" are better informal terms to use than "hacking". I guess if shit like this should continue, you may as well rewrite the Wikipedia article on genuine hacking as "the act of guessing your friend's Facebook password and writing sexual comments as his status, OMG EPIC WIN LULZ xDDDDDD", human intellect is already going backwards anyways. --  李博杰  &#124; —Talk contribs email 13:45, 13 September 2011 (UTC)


 * This from a coprophilic schoolboy whose impoverished vocabulary coughs up the same term indiscriminately as adjective and noun. If what you say is true, then the usage you object to is demonstrably WP:N and belongs here, while the usage of "intellectually capable people" is not. Yappy2bhere (talk) 16:15, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

state that the desktop running on the smartphone in the beginning is xfce
it says that in the image, but i think it should also say in the caption for the image - some bored kid at school (tell me about stuff here), 17:59, 31 May 2024 (UTC)