Blacksn0w, child of overserious shadow-lurker GeoHot and brother of equally straightforward jailbreak app Blackra1n, is now available and should make unlocking your late-version iPhone 3G or 3GS a dead-simple process. Before you dive in though, there’s one caveat… More »
Geohot, the same hacker who first jailbroke OS 3.1.2, is now also the first to crack the 3.1.2 baseband. Previously, anyone who had unlocked their phone at version 3.0 or lower was fine as long as they were careful when upgrading, but anyone running 3.1 or higher was out of luck. Good news for anyone looking to unlock a newly purchased device. You’ll have to be patient, though. The exploit won’t be released until November 4. [BGR]
