The game of cat and mouse between Apple and The iPhone Dev Team continues. If you have tried to use the latest iTunes 8 to unlock or jailbreak your iPhone or iPhone 3G you may have noticed this new error message when attempting to restore:

The iPhone Dev Team has always boasted that the current hacks they use to achieve a jailbreak cannot be solved unless Apple makes a hardware change. This is still true Apple has not closed the hole in the hardware that allows a jailbreak but instead is trying to detect the hack in the ipsw file before it reaches the device.

From the Dev Team:

one way they can try to combat Pwnage for existing hardware is to program iTunes to detect and prevent the Pwnage exploit.  In fact, they’ve already done that in iTunes 8.

If you need to downgrade back to iTunes 7.7.1 to complete a jailbreak or unlock you can find them in our iPhone Downloads section or use these direct links:

Download iTunes 7.7.1 Windows
Download iTunes 7.7.1 Mac OSX

Luckily the Dev Team was already anticipating this move and are prepared. (more…)