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iPhone 3GS jailbreak, ‘purplera1n,’ hits Web

Just as America gears up to celebrate Independence Day comes news that iPhone 3GS owners are getting some freedom of their own.

George Hotz, who you may recall as the teenage hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone, has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS code named purplera1n. It enables the installation of third-party software not approved for Apple’s App Store.

For now, purplera1n is Windows-only (but not Windows 7) and requires the latest iTunes installed, and an iPhone 3GS with the 3.0 firmware. In a Friday blog post titled “I make it ra1n,” Holtz says a Mac version is “coming shortly.”

Holtz notes that he normally doesn’t make tools for the general public and would rather wait for the iPhone dev team to do that.

“But guys, what’s up with waiting until 3.1? That isn’t how the game is played,” he chides on his blog. “We release, Apple fixes, we find new holes. It isn’t worth waiting because you might have the ‘last’ hole in the iPhone. What last hole…this isn’t golf. I’ll find a new one next week.
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Pssst! Ready to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS?

By now we know that iPhone jailbreaking has become a popular challenge among a dedicated developer crowd and freeing the phone from Apple’s chains is a matter of “when”, not “if”. If you have the new iPhone 3GS, you can open up your phone now, less than month after the new model was announced.

The first jailbreaking tool for the iPhone 3GS was released late yesterday by George Holtz, a young developer who also jailbroke the original iPhone. Called “purplera1n”, only Windows XP and Vista users can unlock their iPhone. A Mac version is promised to follow shortly.
While Holtz recommends that a full backup of the phone should be made before running the software, the jailbreaking procedure is simple:

“Connect your iPhone normally. Click “make it ra1n”. Wait. On bootup, run Freeze, the purplera1n installer app. Hopefully you’ll figure out what to do from there. Best tutorial gets linked to from purplera1n site. This tool is beta.”

Holtz indicated that he got impatient with a 3GS jailbreaking tool being made available to the public: “Normally I don’t make tools for the general public, and rather wait for the dev team to do it. But guys, what’s up with waiting until 3.1? That isn’t how the game is played. We release, Apple fixes, we find new holes.”

And he believes that this “game” will be played for a while: “It isn’t worth waiting because you might have the “last” hole in the iPhone. What last hole … this isn’t golf. I’ll find a new one next week.”

The tool can be downloaded free of charge from purplera1n.com.

[Thanks: http://www.tgdaily.com]