It turns out the new boot ROM doesn’t totally prevent the 24kpwn exploit employed by the Dev Team hackers, but instead just kind of interferes with it. The result? You can still jailbreak your late-model 3GS, but the device will need to be tethered to your computer to boot up. It’s a major annoyance, but not necessarily a dealbreaker.

Chances are it won’t be this way for long anyway — remember the iPod Touch 2G? It was jailbroken fairly quickly after launch, but it had a new, slightly more secure boot ROM, and needed to be tethered in order to boot. A few weeks later, the hackers did their thing, and there was much rejoicing. Cue the remainder of this exact chain of events..now. [Gadget Lab]

The answer may be that it is not the actual QuickPwn software, but an iPhone-specific version of a web site called QuickPwn. However, the site’s tag line is:

Download QuickPWN, jailbreak iPhone and iPod Touch, games and more!

It doesn’t seem like the thing Apple would like to advertise openly. [Apple via TechCrunch]

QuickPWN for Beta 3.0 is out for all devices but the Touch 2G, but it could sabotage future unlocking, says the Dev Team. And so the untelevised procedural drama that is jailbreaking continues, forever. [QuickPWN]

For people with 10.5.6, you’re going to have to re-enable DFU mode in order to run Jailbreak. The Dev Team blog has instructions on how to do that, but after you’re done, you should disable DFU mode by running the steps backwards, as we documented here. It may screw up your machine if you don’t. [iPhone Dev]

Yes, all we have here is an annotated hour-long PowerPoint, and yes, almost all of the content is of interest only to the actual haxxors that gathered at 25C3 to watch, but for me, it’s a thrill to hear these guys talk about the software that we’ve covered and used ourselves for so long. It’s also a thrill to hear little tidbits like the 180 IP addresses inside apple that the Dev Team guys have tracked as frequent updaters of Pwnage and Quickpwn.

Up until this weekend in Berlin, most of the iPhone Dev Team had never met each other in person. And I only wish we could have gotten a quick camera pan over to the guys identified as the team members who wish to remain anonymous–in the corner, wearing “PwnApple” t-shirts, speaking Russian. [hackaday via BBG]

The update prevents jailbreaking by disabling the software at the computer level, a step up from what the company usually does: release a firmware update that re-locks the iPhone. Now it’s stopping your Mac from recognising the device in DFU (device firmware update) mode by inflicting new code on the USB ports on Apple computers.

While the iPhone Dev Team is no doubt working to figure out a new hack around this, some are reporting that the simplest way to work around the update for now is to copy some of the 10.5.5 framework files over the newer ones… or not update. [Information Week and Spaziocellulare]