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New iPhone 3GS bootrom jailbreakable, with caveats

Apple has started to release new iPhone 3GS handsets with an updated bootrom and we reported that it rendered those iPhones jailbreak proof. However, this isn't true, Eric McDonald, an iPhone Dev-Team member, said in a Wired interview released last week.

MacDonald said, "It's not going to be impossible to jailbreak even if the exploit we used is gone."

The existing tools used for jailbreaking will work with the newly updated iPhone 3GS handsets. The only problem is that Apple has patched the "24kpwn" exploit used to jailbreak previous models. The result is that … Read more