In a more perfect world, the general public would understand the important distinction between malicious "hackers" and you guys. Keep up the good work.
What do you tell your laymen friends and family that you do? Do you call it hacking? Security analysis? Something else?
This is the best kind of security research. Sometimes people think security research is unethical, but there is no ethical question here: should a user sitting in front of his own device be able to use it for anything he wants? The answer is "of course".
As a user of an unlocked Evo, I want to thank you for doing this work. It makes my life more enjoyable!
There's absolutely nothing illegal about downloading the SSH source code, finding a buffer overflow, and releasing code that demonstrates that that buffer overflow gets you root. The downside is that a lot of kiddies will use this information to cause mayhem.
When you do the same to the phone, there is much less mayhem. But there's absolutely nothing illegal about the first scenario.
What do you tell your laymen friends and family that you do? Do you call it hacking? Security analysis? Something else?