iPhone Jailbreak Exploit Only Fixable Via New Hardware

The news is good for iPhone jailbreakers everywhere this morning — but for Apple? Not so much.

Just minutes after the iOS 4.1 update became available to all, iPhone hacker pod2g has revealed that they’ve discovered a new bootrom exploit, with all recently released iOS hardware seemingly being vulnerable. In less geeky words: the iPhone 4? the new iPod Touch? If it was built anytime before today, it’s theoretically jailbreakable — and there’s not a whole lot Apple can do to fix that.

[Read More from Mobile Crunch via Crunchgear]

Iphone 2.0 Already Cracked By iphone Dev Team

In what seems to be a never ending taffy pull, Apple’s new iphone 2.0 firmware has already been broken. What’s worse is that the firmware hasn’t even been released to the public, and isn’t scheduled until June. The guys over at iphone Dev Team not only opened the iphone to non-supported apps, but have also unlocked it to be used on any carrier.

How clever are these guys to unlock Apple’s latest firmware before it becomes Apple’s latest firmware?

A message to Lord Jobs:

Let people do what they want with the iphone, because clearly they’re going to do that anyway. That would only make your customers happy, and you can put resources towards getting a 3G iphone on the market and in my hands ASAP.

[iphone Dev Team via Engadget]