iPhone 3GS exploit confirmed, jailbreak and unlock coming 'soon'
By Thomas Ricker 
posted June 26th 2009 1:47AM
posted June 26th 2009 1:47AM
And so it continues. Geohot has returned with some help from hacking buddies chronic, posixninja, and pod2g with news that the same "24kpwn" exploit used to cracked open the iPod touch 2G will work on the iPhone 3GS. That means a jailbreak and unlock can be launched just as soon as the existing tools are updated for the iPhone 3GS (which won't be long). As George Hotz laments, On a personal note, I'm sad. Apple, it took me a week to break through your new defenses. And to let us reuse an exploit like that; 24kpwn was so 5 months ago. Although I imagine it must have been painful watching the devices roll by on the assembly line, knowing they all had a hole in them and you couldn't fix it.Oh George.
[Via Dev-Team Blog]
They do it to make money, not some "good faith action" towards society. It's a company, not a humanity effort. Quit lauding them as if they're some kind of saint for producing something for you to buy. They're just like every other company.
They make a product that does X, Y, and Z. People want to be able to do A, B, and C on their phone too. They don't actually support that so a group of people do something so that A, B, and C can be done on aforementioned phone. That's all it is. When you start getting into the ethics of it, we could be here all then because it is subjective. Not to mention, lots of people do completely "ethical" things with their jailbroken phones. What's wrong with wanting a simple icon on the top right when you have unread emails, text messages, or other things?
These things don't necessarily undermine Apple/AT&T directly. Think about the Linksys WRT546G. Do you know why that router is probably one of the best wireless routers you can get? Because it's cheap and runs homebrew firmware (DD-WRT namely) like a champ. I wouldn't buy a router that couldn't run DD-WRT and when I bought the Linksys WRT350N, I bought it because it was the best performer on DD-WRT's site at the time.
Guess why I bought my PSP? Guess why I bought a Linksys NSLU2 a while back? I'll give you a hint, it wasn't the original firmware or capabilities that impressed me.
If it wasn't for being able to jailbreak my iPhone, I probably wouldn't even buy one and Apple wouldn't get my business. Your logic is faulty ChrisM.
Will a jailbreaked 3gs allow
1) mp3 songs to be used as ringtones?
2) Allow conection via bluetooth to other bluetooth mobiles?
can do that to any iphone. just convert into m4r
How do ya convert them to that formay?
1) More or less. You convert the mp3 to aac (as easy as right clicking in itunes and selecting convert to AAC)
Then just upload to the ringtones folder using drag and drop via DiskAid or SSH.
2) yes, it called iBluetooth
i forgot, you gotta rename the file extension from .m4a to .m4r
then the iphone will see it as a ring tone
So do I need to install ibluetooth on my 3gs?
oh George, haha
When I come to think of it, this whole jailbreaking business seems to be almost sponsored or at least welcomed/wanted by Apple as it prevents blogs and news to stop writing about iPhone on and on and on and on...
I don't think Apple cares if people figure out how to jailbreak. What does it really matter to them, anyway? They know that MOST people are not going to bother and if you really want to do it, they still made money that jailbreakers might have spent on a different, more open mobile platform otherwise.
Not really. The devteam likes the challenge. The more closed, the more challenging it is to them. An open platform would be ignored by people on the dev team for the most part.
Of course, there would be no reason for the dev team to jailbreak an already open platform, silly. What I'm saying is that Apple isn't making it impossible (or trying that hard) because 1 - I don't think it is possible to make it completely IMpossible. 2- They know that some people would not buy the phone if the dev team didn't create a jailbreak.
Fernando, Apple and AT&T on the other hand say T H A N K __ Y O U !! for spending 2500 yearly...
Oh come on engadget, I love your articles and humor, but please make sure to link to OFFICIAL dev-team websites, and ESPECIALLY not ones that they have expressly stated as being "Adsense Abuse". They are squatting on QuickPwn.com with almost Zero content and tons of ads.
http://twitter.com/iphone_dev/statuses/2314248790
-Tommy
Of course, there would be no reason for the dev team to jailbreak an already open platform, silly. What I'm saying is that Apple isn't making it impossible (or trying that hard) because 1 - I don't think it is possible to make it completely IMpossible. 2- They know that some people would not buy the phone if the dev team didn't create a jailbreak.
Damn comment system!
I think it has gotten to the point where Apple is acting like they care but they don't. They want people to unlock and jailbreak their phones. They make more money and it only increases sales of the hardware itself.
I think Apple leaves the holes on purpose so that enterprising people who will never get AT&T, will still get an iPhone and jailbreak for tmobile and buy apps and other Apple accesories. :)
George +1, Your move apple.
Yes, now you could JailBreak & Unlock.
My own tools available at http://UnlockAlliPhone.com to unlock. Its a simple one click windows software that unlocks your iPhone 3G/3GS.
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