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THURSDAY, AUGUST 30,2007
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Richard Jewell is interviewed by the Associated Press on July 22, 2006, in Atlanta. Jewell, a former security guard who was erroneously linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing, died Wednesday. He was 44.
Security guard wrongly linked to 1996 Olympic bombing dies at 44
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ATLANTA — Richard Jewell, the former security guard who was wrongly linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing and then waged a decade-long battle with news organizations to defend his reputation, died Wednesday. He was 44.
Jewell was found dead in his west Georgia home. An autopsy was scheduled for Thursday.
"There's no suspicion whatsoever of any type of foul play. He had been at home sick since the end of February with kidney problems" saidMiereiweth County Coroner Johnny Worley.
Jewell was diagnosed with diabetes earlier this year and later had a few toes
amputated. He had recently been on dialysis, the coroner said.
Lin Wood, Jewell's longtime attorney, said in an e-mail to the Associated Press that he was "devastated" by the news. He described Jewell as "a dedicated public servant whose heroism the night of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing saved the lives of many people."
The Jewell episode led to soul-searching among news organizations about the use of unattributed or anonymously sourced information. His very name became shorthand for a person accused of wrongdoing in the media based on scanty information.
"He will be missed, but never forgotten." Wood said.
Jewell was a security guard in 1996 at the Olympics in Atlanta. He was initially hailed as a hero for spotting a suspicious backpack in a park and moving people out of harm's way just before a bomb exploded during a concert.
The blast killed one and injured 111 others.
Three days after the bombing, an unattributed report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution described him as "the focus" of the investigation.
Other media, to varying degrees, also linked Jewell to the investigation and portrayed him as a loser and law-enforcement wannabe who may have planted the bomb so he would look like a hero when he discovered it later.
Reporters camped outside Jewell's mother's apartment in the Atlanta area, and his life was dissected for weeks by the media. But he was never arrested or charged, although he was questioned and was a subject of search warrants.
Reno expressed regret over the leak regarding Jewell. "I'm very sorry it happened," she told reporters. "I think we owe him an apology."
Eventually, the bomber turned out to be anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph, who also planted three other bombs in the Atlanta area and in Birmingham, Ala.
Jewell told the Associated Press last year that Rudolph's conviction helped clear his name, but he believed some people still remembered him as a suspect rather than for the two days he was praised as a hero.
A year ago, Gov. Sonny Perdue commended jewel at a bombing anniversary event. "This is what I think is the right thing to do" Perdue declared as he handed a certificate to Jewell.
As recently as last year, Jewell was working as a sheriff's deputy in west Georgia. He also gave speeches to college journalism classes about his experience.
In 1997, U.S. Attorney General Janet
》 TECHNOLOGY
iPhone hackers struggle to profit from software
He said it had been contacted by lawyers from O'Melveny & Myers LLP, an international law firm representing AT&T, who told him the software contained material copyrighted by Apple Inc.
John McLaughlin of Uniquephones.com, an outfit based in Northern Ireland, said in a phone interview Wednesday that its unlocking software for iPhones is ready, but the company is holding off while it gets legal advice.
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NEW YORK — Hackers have figured out how to unleash Apple's iPhone from AT&T's cellular network, but people hoping to make money from the procedure could face legal problems.
"Whether people can make profits from software that hacks the iPhone is going to depend very much on exactly what was done to develop that software and what does that software do," said Bart Showalter, head of the Intellectual Property practice group at law firm Baker Botts in Dallas.
At least one of the companies hoping to make money by unlocking iPhones said it is hesitating after calls from lawyers representing the phone company.
Unlocking the phone for one's own use, for instance to place calls with a different carrier, appears to be legal. But if it's done for financial gain, the legality is less certain.
George Hotz, a 17-year-old in New Jersey who managed to unlock his iPhone last week, using both software and hardware modifications, tried to sell it on eBay but ended the auction after apparently fake bids sent the price to $100 million.
Instead, Hotz traded the unlocked phone for "a sweet Nissan 350Z" and three iPhones, according to his blog Hotz made the deal with Terry Daidone, co-founder of CertiCell, a cell phone repair company in Louisville, Ky.
The iPhone is sold only in the U.S., and only for use on the AT&T network, but it is compatible with cell phone technology used around the world, which means an unlocked phone can use an overseas account and number. In the U.S., T-Mobile is the only other major carrier compatible with the iPhone; Sprint and Verizon Wireless use different network technologies.
"From their e-mail addresses, they're from everywhere in the world," McLaughlin said. "Everybody is just waiting for it."
"They don't have it, so therefore they can't actually threaten us," McLaughlin said. "It was 'friendly advice.'"
Uniquephones.com had planned to release the software via iphoneunlocking.com. The price for people on its mailing list, which contained just fewer than half a million addresses, would be $25 per iPhone, McLaughlin said.
George Hotz, a 17-year-old hacker, is shown in his bedroom workspace Aug. 23 in Glen Rock, N.J. Hotz has broken the lock that ties Apple's iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including oversea ones. Hotz confirmed Friday that he had unlocked an iPhone and was using it on T-Mobile's network, the only major U.S. carrier apart from AT&T that is compatible with the iPhone's cellular technology.
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