Cracked iPhone apps?

The folks over at Haklabs claim to have broken the Apple AppStore FairPlay protection.  On a quick read, it sounds like you can manually copy applications to the iPhone if you’ve jailbroken and the applications will run properly. 

If this is true, the only gatekeeper is the iTunes desktop application itself.  This does sort of make sense because music works exactly the same way.  You’re allowed to put DRM’d music on as many iPod/iPhones as you want.

Looks like this could be a real reason for many to jailbreak- too bad all the applications are digitally signed with an email address. 

[via MacNN]