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The iPhone 3.0 firmware is still in Beta, but that doesn't mean it cannot be jailbroken as Apple discovered within 24 hours of releasing iPhone OS 3 Beta 2.
Jailbreaking iPhone firmware as quickly as possible has become a state
of the art game it seems. Remember last year when the iPhone 2.1
firmware was pwned within
24 hours of release despite Apple pinning hopes on iTunes 8 erecting a
barrier to prevent this?
Well now the pwnage game has been stepped up a
notch with the news that the iPhone OS 3.0 firmware has been cracked
and pwned before it has even been officially released.
Apple had no sooner made the OS 3 Beta 2 firmware available for those
developers participating in the Beta test when the Russians announced
they had broken it. QuickPWN for Windows appeared within 24 hours of
the Beta 2 release, claiming to work with all versions of the iPhone
and iPod Touch.
QuickPWN warns
that this is "an unofficial release and it’s not created by the iPhone
Dev Team." However, it reveals that a Russian hacker called Vortex has
come up trumps with the jailbreak.
"I tried it on my iPod Touch with firmware 3.0 beta 2 and it works! You
can only jailbreak on the iPhone 3.0 Beta 2, iPhone 3G 3.0 beta 2, and
iPod Touch 1st Gen beta 3.0" a QuickPWN blogger reports.
Not everyone in the jailbreak community is impressed, it would appear,
as over at the iPhone Dev Team HQ there is a frank warning about using
this unofficial QuickPWN release:
"THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT THE UNOFFICIAL QUICKPWN RELEASES IS
THAT IF YOU USE THEM, YOU WILL KILL YELLOWSN0W, POSSIBLY FOREVER.
That’s because QuickPwn, by its very nature, requires you to already
have accepted Apple’s official IPSW, along with its baseband update. If
you do that, you will (possibly forever) lose your ability to
software-unlock your iPhone 3G."
An iPhone Dev Team statement
says that "It’s
silly to play cat & mouse with Apple during a beta period, when
relatively few people are willing to actually use the beta software in
their everyday lives. There are ways Apple can tighten the screws, and
we’d rather not burn methods just for a beta release."
David Bass
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